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384'A Friend, A Nimble Mind, and a Book': Girls' Literary Criticism in Seventeen Magazine, 1958-1969Journal of American Studies 55 (2): 1-26. 2020.This article argues that postwar Seventeen magazine, a publication deeply invested in enforcing heteronormativity and conventional models of girlhood and womanhood, was in fact a more complex and multivocal serial text whose editors actively sought out, cultivated, and published girls’ creative and intellectual work. Seventeen's teen-authored “Curl Up and Read” book review columns, published from 1958 through 1969, are examples of girls’ creative intellectual labor, introducing Seventeen's reade…Read more
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186Dinny Gordon, Intellectual: Anne Emery's Postwar Junior Fiction and Girls' Intellectual CultureJournal of the History of Childhood and Youth 7 (2): 243-266. 2014.In her Dinny Gordon series (1958–1965), junior novelist Anne Emery’s heroine manifests intellectual desire, a passionate engagement in the life of the mind along with the desire to connect with like-minded others. Within a genre which focused on socialization and dating, in Dinny, Emery normalizes a studious, inner-directed, yet feminine heroine, passionate about ancient history rather than football captains. Emery’s endorsement of the pleasure Dinny takes in intellectual work, and the friends a…Read more
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26This report describes the rationale, approaches, organization, and resource development leading to a large-scale deletion bin map of the hexaploid wheat genome. Accompanying reports in this issue detail results from chromosome bin-mapping of expressed sequence tags representing genes onto the seven homoeologous chromosome groups and a global analysis of the entire mapped wheat EST data set. Among the resources developed were the first extensive public wheat EST collection. Described are protocol…Read more
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7“Nothing Done!”: The Poet in Early Nineteenth-Century American CultureDissertation, . 2000.In this dissertation, I argue that early nineteenth-century American poets’ and readers’ interpretations of Romanticism shaped their understanding of the role poetry and its producers could play in a developing national culture. By examining the public careers and private sentiments of four male poets — William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jones Very — I analyze how each reconciled poetic vocation with the moral and economic obligations associated with the atta…Read more
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4Some aspects of scriptural quotation in Piers Plowman: Lady Holy ChurchBulletin of the John Rylands Library 77 (3): 19-30. 1995.
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2Introduction: The Bible and early English literature from the beginnings to 1500: Proceedings of the second G. L. Brook Symposium held in the University of Manchester, 1993Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 77 (3): 3-8. 1995.
Rutgers - New Brunswick
PhD, 2000
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