L L Mielke
Biographic Data
| ID | 1131434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L L Mielke |
| GIVEN NAMES | L L |
| FAMILY NAME | Mielke |
| SIGNATURE | MIELKE L L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5042-8978 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Lara Langer Cohen
This Sea of Upturned Faces”: The Rhetorical Role of Audience in Frederick Douglass’s Constitutional Interpretation at Midcentury
On 15 May 1851, Frederick Douglass let it be known in the pages of the North Star that he had come to a new interpretation of the US Constitution as an anti-slavery document, indicating his complete break with Garrisonian abolitionists. This essay argues that Douglass’s change in understanding the Constitution was propelled not only by specific political and personal events detailed in scholarship but also by his rhetorical engagement with audien…
Thinking Together: Lecturing, Learning, & Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century
Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920
This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of American History following peer review. The version of record Laura L Mielke, Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920, Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 1, June 2020, Pages 195–196 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaaa071
New Genealogies of Performance
New Genealogies of Performance Laura L. Mielke (bio) Acts of Manhood: The Performance of Masculinity on the American Stage, 1828–1865. By Karl M. Kippola. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 264 pages. $85.00 (cloth). Pioneer Performances: Staging the Frontier. By Matthew Rebhorn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 224 pages. $65.00 (cloth). Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America. By Amy E. Hughes. Ann Arbo…
Edwin Forrest's July 4th Oration and the Specters of Provocative Eloquence
This is the author's accepted manuscript, available from the publisher at https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2395429
Love's Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination
Since September 11, 2001, scholars have addressed with renewed fervor the central role of violence in American culture. With Love's Whipping Boy Elizabeth Barnes advances the conversation by reaching back to nineteenth-century literature, mapping an essential national dialectic between violence and sentiment. Drawing on Sigmund Freud's theories of sadism and masochism, Barnes posits that U.S. Protestant theology contributes to the white male's in…
A Tale Both Old and New: Jamestown at 400
A Tale Both Old and New:Jamestown at 400 Laura L. Mielke (bio) The Jamestown Project. By Karen Ordahl Kupperman. New York: Harvard/Belknap, 2007. 388 pages. $29.95 (cloth). A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America. By James Horn. New York: Basic Books, 2005. 349 pages. $26.00 (cloth). $15.95 (paper). Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation. By David A. Price. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 20…
The Saga of Third World Belle: Resurrecting the Ethnic Woman in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The publisher's official version can be found at: https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/32.1.3
Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law (review)
Reviewed by: Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law Laura L. Mielke (bio) David J. Carlson . Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2006. 217 pp. ISBN 0-252-07266-9, $30. As Hilary E. Wyss and Maureen Konkle have noted, the attempt to measure the supposed "authenticity" of early American Indian writing stems from the dodgy judgment that, prior to the twentieth century, any litera…
Native to the Question: William Apess, Black Hawk, and the Sentimental Context of Early Native American Autobiography
A review of William Apess's 1831 revised edition of A Son of the Forestin the American Monthly Reviewexpresses frustration over an "error" Apess commits in describing his ancestry. Apess, a Pequot Indian, claims his grandmother was the granddaughter of King Philip, the (in)famous Wampanoag leader, and in doing so he misidentifies Philip as a Pequot. 1 The reviewer concludes by voicing a concern that Apess's future attempts to write Native America…
Edwin Forrest's July 4th Oration and the Specters of Provocative Eloquence
This is the author's accepted manuscript, available from the publisher at https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2395429
Native to the Question: William Apess, Black Hawk, and the Sentimental Context of Early Native American Autobiography
A review of William Apess's 1831 revised edition of A Son of the Forestin the American Monthly Reviewexpresses frustration over an "error" Apess commits in describing his ancestry. Apess, a Pequot Indian, claims his grandmother was the granddaughter of King Philip, the (in)famous Wampanoag leader, and in doing so he misidentifies Philip as a Pequot. 1 The reviewer concludes by voicing a concern that Apess's future attempts to write Native America…
Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law (review)
Reviewed by: Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law Laura L. Mielke (bio) David J. Carlson . Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2006. 217 pp. ISBN 0-252-07266-9, $30. As Hilary E. Wyss and Maureen Konkle have noted, the attempt to measure the supposed "authenticity" of early American Indian writing stems from the dodgy judgment that, prior to the twentieth century, any litera…
The Saga of Third World Belle: Resurrecting the Ethnic Woman in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The publisher's official version can be found at: https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/32.1.3
A Tale Both Old and New: Jamestown at 400
A Tale Both Old and New:Jamestown at 400 Laura L. Mielke (bio) The Jamestown Project. By Karen Ordahl Kupperman. New York: Harvard/Belknap, 2007. 388 pages. $29.95 (cloth). A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America. By James Horn. New York: Basic Books, 2005. 349 pages. $26.00 (cloth). $15.95 (paper). Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation. By David A. Price. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 20…
Love's Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination
Since September 11, 2001, scholars have addressed with renewed fervor the central role of violence in American culture. With Love's Whipping Boy Elizabeth Barnes advances the conversation by reaching back to nineteenth-century literature, mapping an essential national dialectic between violence and sentiment. Drawing on Sigmund Freud's theories of sadism and masochism, Barnes posits that U.S. Protestant theology contributes to the white male's in…
New Genealogies of Performance
New Genealogies of Performance Laura L. Mielke (bio) Acts of Manhood: The Performance of Masculinity on the American Stage, 1828–1865. By Karl M. Kippola. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 264 pages. $85.00 (cloth). Pioneer Performances: Staging the Frontier. By Matthew Rebhorn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 224 pages. $65.00 (cloth). Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America. By Amy E. Hughes. Ann Arbo…
Edwin Forrest's July 4th Oration and the Specters of Provocative Eloquence
This is the author's accepted manuscript, available from the publisher at https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2395429
Thinking Together: Lecturing, Learning, & Difference in the Long Nineteenth Century
Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920
This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of American History following peer review. The version of record Laura L Mielke, Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920, Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 1, June 2020, Pages 195–196 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaaa071
This Sea of Upturned Faces”: The Rhetorical Role of Audience in Frederick Douglass’s Constitutional Interpretation at Midcentury
On 15 May 1851, Frederick Douglass let it be known in the pages of the North Star that he had come to a new interpretation of the US Constitution as an anti-slavery document, indicating his complete break with Garrisonian abolitionists. This essay argues that Douglass’s change in understanding the Constitution was propelled not only by specific political and personal events detailed in scholarship but also by his rhetorical engagement with audien…
Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Lara Langer Cohen
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