J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists

J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists J19 is the official publication of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists.

J19 is a semiannual publication dedicated to publishing articles and reviews on American culture and literature from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Published twice annually, the journal will be dedicated to publishing innovative research on and analysis of the "long nineteenth century" (1783-1914).

It's out now!!!!
06/08/2019

It's out now!!!!

https://twitter.com/J19Americanists/status/944007695115235328
12/22/2017

https://twitter.com/J19Americanists/status/944007695115235328

“W. Irving--frets about war on X-mas, in 1820! "Many of the games and ceremonials of Christmas have entirely disappeared... They flourished in times full of spirit and lustihood, when men enjoyed life roughly, but heartily and vigorously..." ”

J19 5.1 (Spring 2017) is out now! Topics covered include: Post-Reconstruction's Necropolitics, authors like Melville, Em...
04/03/2017

J19 5.1 (Spring 2017) is out now! Topics covered include: Post-Reconstruction's Necropolitics, authors like Melville, Emerson, and Whitman, and nineteenth-century print culture. Find the full issue on Project Muse and visit j19.pennpress.org for subscription information.

Table of Contents (J19 issue 5.1)

Pleasure Reading
"The Pleasure of the Past in the Present" by Gordon Hutner
"Exorbitant Optics and Lunatic Pleasures" by Timothy Marr

Essays
"Narrating Slow Violence: Post-Reconstruction’s Necropolitics
and Speculating beyond Liberal Antirace Fiction" by Stephen Knadler
"Melville’s Little Historical Method" by David Faflik
"'I Nailed Those Lies': Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Print Culture, and Collaboration" by Carolyn Sorisio
"Novel Inventions: Emerson, Whitman, and the Patent Office Gallery" by Reed Gochberg
"'You Talk Like a Book': Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Civil War Poetry and the Regionalization of Speech" by Timothy Sweet
"'I Have No Disbelief': Spiritualism and Secular Agency in Elizabeth
Stoddard’s The Morgesons" by Ashley Reed

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/36054

Article Spotlight: In "Paul Laurence Dunbar’s The Sport of the Gods and the Modern Discourse of Black Criminality" (J19 ...
07/07/2016

Article Spotlight: In "Paul Laurence Dunbar’s The Sport of the Gods and the Modern Discourse of Black Criminality" (J19 4.1) author Thomas Alan Dichter proposes that we read Dunbar's novel not as a capitulation to or satirization of anti-black stereotypes, but as a mapping out of the beliefs that led to these stereotypes in the first place. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/616900

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