Lindsay DiCuirci
Biographic Data
| ID | 5660514 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindsay DiCuirci |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindsay |
| FAMILY NAME | DiCuirci |
| SIGNATURE | DICUIRCI L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination
Nathaniel Hawthorne may have been haunted in the Scarlet Letter by “a throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments of gray,” but as Kenyon Gradert's lively book lays out, the puritans that populated the abolitionist rhetoric of Hawthorne's peers were warriors, revolutionaries, and zealots in the cause of righteousness. Indeed, Hawthorne's views remain “outliers” even if they have loomed large in the critical discourse surrounding the puritan le…
Found among the Papers
pseudofactual mode), the narrative frame of the found manuscript utilized in early American novels like Unca Eliza Winkfield's The Female American (1767) and Susanna Rowson's Reuben and Rachel (1798) had long been recognized as a "fiction" in itself. Linking this trope to current debates over the "archive" and the "hermeneutics of suspicion" this essay argues that the endurance of the "found manuscript" convention can be traced to the interpretiv…
Literature, American Style
Critical conversations about the birth, development, or zenith of American literature often begin with the vexing question J. Hector St. John de Crèveouer posed in his Letters from an American Farmer (1782): What is an American? Remove the “an” and the question takes on a different tenor: What is American about American literature? What are American letters, if not sad derivations of their English and European superiors? The very term “American” …
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Literature, American Style
Critical conversations about the birth, development, or zenith of American literature often begin with the vexing question J. Hector St. John de Crèveouer posed in his Letters from an American Farmer (1782): What is an American? Remove the “an” and the question takes on a different tenor: What is American about American literature? What are American letters, if not sad derivations of their English and European superiors? The very term “American” …
Found among the Papers
pseudofactual mode), the narrative frame of the found manuscript utilized in early American novels like Unca Eliza Winkfield's The Female American (1767) and Susanna Rowson's Reuben and Rachel (1798) had long been recognized as a "fiction" in itself. Linking this trope to current debates over the "archive" and the "hermeneutics of suspicion" this essay argues that the endurance of the "found manuscript" convention can be traced to the interpretiv…
Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination
Nathaniel Hawthorne may have been haunted in the Scarlet Letter by “a throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments of gray,” but as Kenyon Gradert's lively book lays out, the puritans that populated the abolitionist rhetoric of Hawthorne's peers were warriors, revolutionaries, and zealots in the cause of righteousness. Indeed, Hawthorne's views remain “outliers” even if they have loomed large in the critical discourse surrounding the puritan le…
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