English
Browse by
Recent Submissions
-
Review of "Fighting for the Higher Law: Black and White Transcendentalists against Slavery" by Peter Wirzbicki
(Oxford University Press, 2022-11-08) -
“This Sea of Upturned Faces”: The Rhetorical Role of Audience in Frederick Douglass’s Constitutional Interpretation at Midcentury
(Oxford University Press, 2024-03-18)Laura L Mielke, “This Sea of Upturned Faces”: The Rhetorical Role of Audience in Frederick Douglass’s Constitutional Interpretation at Midcentury, MELUS, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2024, Pages 3–27, https://doi.org/10.10 ... -
Review of "Literary Indians: Aesthetics & Encounter in American Literature to 1920" by Angela Calcaterra
(Oxford University Press, 2020-06-01) -
Introduction
(University of Nebraska Press, 2012-01) -
John Brougham’s Columbus Burlesque
(Association for Documentary Editing, 2022-04-11) -
Review of "Publishing Scholarly Editing: Archives, Computing, and Experience," by Christopher Ohge
(Association for Documentary Editing, 2023-04-27) -
Black Literary Suite: Black Beyond Borders: Afro-Latinx & Afro-Latino American Literature
(University of Kansas, 2022-10-22)The History of Black Writing's 2022 Black Literary Suite highlights Afro-Latinx authors and scholars. For this online exhibit we have selected a list of literary works from primarily Afro-Latina/x women writers, who ... -
The Faces of Haiti: Resolute in Reform, Resistance and Recovery, 2nd edition
(University of Kansas, 2020-10-25)This report describes the activities and findings of the University of Kansas Haitian Research Initiative team that travelled to Haiti in July 2011. The purpose of the visit was to assess the current research and educational ... -
History of Black Writing Activity Reports (1998-2021)
(University of Kansas, 2021-12-01) -
Review of Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists by Emily Ruth Rutter
(Sport Literature Association, 2022-03-31) -
An Introduction to Plautus Through Scenes: Selected and Translated by Richard F. Hardin
(Poetry in Translation, 2021-08-01)This collection celebrates a comic artist who left twenty plays written during the decades on either side of 200 B.C. He spun his work from Greek comedies, “New Comedies” bearing his own unique stamp. In Rome the forerunners ... -
Review of Wenger: My Life and Lessons in Red and White by Arsene Wenger
(Sport Literature Association, 2021-04-04) -
Black Literary Suite: Black Writing in Reel Time
(University of Kansas, 2020-11-11)Countless works by Black authors have found multiple lives through film adaptations, recontextualizing the ways in which modern audiences can engage with these narratives. From Charles Chesnutt’s novel The House Behind the ... -
The Rise of the Mechanimal: How Authors of Scientific Romances Imagined Future Vehicles
(University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)Whereas many have surmised that the technological vision for biorobotics originated with science fiction, it actually originated much earlier, in a constellation of science-influenced works of fiction in the romance tradition ... -
Relationship of the Latin Facetus literature to the medieval English courtesy poems
(University of Kansas, 1933-05-31) -
The development of English prose with special reference to ornamentation
(University of Kansas, 1896-05-31) -
“Everything is Here and Now”: The Polyvocal Poetry of Naomi Long Madgett
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Naomi Long Madgett—poet, editor, professor, and Detroit Poet Laureate—has a poetic career that spans over sixty years. Despite this, her work is rarely engaged critically. This thesis aims to present new scholarship on ... -
Memory in the Apocalyptic Archive: A Literary and Computer Textual Analysis of A Canticle for Leibowitz
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This thesis analyzes A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. to argue that traditional literary analysis and digital humanities methods are often more effective when used in combination. Beginning with a literary ... -
Rough Forms: Autobiographical Interventions in the U.S. West, 1835-1935
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Rough Forms analyzes U.S. Western autobiographies from 1835 to 1935, focusing especially on ways that Native and non-Native authors complicate settler-colonial narratives. In doing so, my project deeply engages with two ... -
Exploring ‘Zelmaneship’: Developing Queer Inwardness from Sidney to Stage
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Zelmane the Amazon, a central character in Philip Sidney’s epic romance The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1590), has often been studied for her transgressive gender and sexuality. Zelmane’s first words in the New Arcadia ...