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ICYMI: New & Notable Articles (8 July 2024)
What to Israel Potter is the Fourth of July?: Melville,
Douglass, and the Agency of Words
Anne Baker
Leviathan
Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2008
How July 4th should be celebrated was hotly debated from the beginnings of the U.S.
In Leviathan, Anne Baker examines works by Douglass and Melville focused such celebrations, and wrestling with the the ways the nation fell short of its promises
Read free thru 19 July
"To Mean What Once We Said": Richard Wilbur Celebrates the Fourth of July
William Tate
Christianity & Literature
Volume 69, Number 4, December 2020
Poet Richard Wilbur faced a dilemma in his 1976 poem “The Fourth of July” — how to honor patriotism without discounting pluralism
William Tate discusses in Christianity & Literature, free to read thru 19 July
The Star Entangled Banner: Commemorating 100 Years of Philippine (In)dependence and Philippine-American Relations
Sharon Delmendo
Journal of Asian American Studies
Volume 1, Number 3, October 1998
July 4th is a key date in U.S history., and for the Philippines as well
Revisit Sharon Delmendo’s article in Journal of Asian American Studies examining Philippine-American Relations on the centennial of Philippine Independence
Yellow, and: July 4th
Yasmine Anderson
African American Review
Volume 53, Number 1, Spring 2020
A #SummerLit holiday bonus for July 4:
A pair of poems by Yasmine Anderson from the Spring 2020 issue of African American Review: Yellow, and: July 4th.
Read free thru 19 July
Independence Day
Ernest Hilbert
The Yale Review
Volume 105, Number 3, July 2017
Continuing #SummerLit Friday, out weekly literary feature from the Hopkins Press Journals archive
Today featuring a poem from the July 2017 edition of The Yale Review: Ernest Hilbert’s “Independence Day”
Free to read on Project MUSE through 19 July
MLN Forum: Translators Reimagine Literary Citizenship in the Academy
Eleni Theodoropoulos and Bradley Harmon
MLN
Volume 138, Number 5, December 2023
How and when will translation receive recognition for its crucial role in the academic ecosystem?
Spanning the Hopkins Press blog & 9 articles in a new special issue of MLN, it's a lively and thoughtful 10-scholar forum, open access for a year thru March 2025
“A series of mere household events”: Poe’s “The
Black Cat,” Domesticity, and Pet-Keeping in
Nineteenth-Century America
Heidi Hanrahan
Poe Studies
Volume 45, Number 1, 2012
Poe’s actual “Black Cat” was a beloved family pet, immortalized in his classic tale of murder and madness — and summoning questions about domesticity’s capacity for containing darker desires
Read free in Poe Studies thru 12 July
T. S. Eliot's Autobiographical Cats
Henry Hart
Sewanee Review
Volume 120, Number 3, Summer 2012
In a 2012 piece for Sewanee Review, Henry Hart explores the fascinating history of T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, revealing the classic poems as highly autobiographical
Read free thru 12 July
Cat-Quest: A Symbolic Animal in Margaret Wise Brown
Suzanne Rahn
Children's Literature
Volume 22, 1994
Cat characters are mulitivalent across children’s literature, but exist in a cat-egory of their own in the work of Margaret Wise Brown, says Suzanne Rahn
Explore fascinating feline representation more deeply, free in Children's Literature thru 12 July
Girl Cat Cape
Sheila Maldonado
Callaloo
Volume 31, Number 2, Spring 2008
It's #SummerLit Friday: a weekly literary feature from the Hopkins Press Journals archive
Today, we offer Sheila Maldonado's poem "Cat Girl Cape" from Callaloo (Spring 2008)
Read free thru 12 July
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