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Karen A. Weyler

Dr. Weyler’s current book project is titled “The Imprimatur of Citizenship: Print and Public Identity in British North America and the Early Republic, 1760-1824.” This project explores how non-elite individuals such as John Marrant, Phillis Wheatley, and Deborah Sampson negotiated the difficulties of authorship and publication as they sought to develop public identities. She is also working on a scholarly edition of Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood’s novel Dorval; or The Speculator (1801), for which she was awarded a fellowship from the Maine Women Writer’s Collection.

There are 8 included publications by Karen A. Weyler :

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American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures. By Joanna Brooks. and “Face Zion Forward”: First Writers of the Black Atlantic, 1785-1798. Ed. by Joanna Brooks and John Saillant. 2005 67 In different ways, American Lazarus and "Face Zion Forward" contribute to the growing body of scholarship about the circumatlantic movement of people and ideas in the eighteenth century. 'Face Zion Forward" is a collection of pri...
Book Review: A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle- Class Desire. By Janice A. Radway. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 1997. xiii, 424 pp. $29.95. 1999 88 Book review of A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle- Class Desire. By Janice A. Radway. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 1997. xiii, 424 pp. $29.95....
Book Review: Private Property: Charles Brockden Brown’s Gendered Economics of Virtue. By Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds 1997 39 A book review of Private Property: Charles Brockden Brown’s Gendered Economics of Virtue. By Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds...
Creating a Community of Readers: Mary Mebane's Exploration of Difference in Mary and Mary, Wayfarer 1997 256 The circumstances surrounding Mary Mebane's death in 1991—an anonymous death in a county welfare home, with a pauper's burial—are strongly reminiscent of the death of Zora Neale Hurston. Although Mebane never attained the stature that Hurston achieve...
Gender and Humor in Early America 2004 161 This issue of Studies in American Humor, focusing on early and antebellum American humor, takes us deep into the archives to explore the complicated relationships between humor and gender identity at different historical moments and in different genr...
Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Glenn Hendler. 2002 91 In Public Sentiments, Glenn Hendler joins other critics who have recently challenged and complicated two long-standing tenets about the exercise of nineteenth-century American sentiment: first, that sentiment was primarily the province of women write...
Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Lori Merish. 2001 118 Like Ann Douglas in The Feminization of American Culture, Lori Merish in Sentimental Materialism locates nineteenth-century sentimentality in the nexus of commodity consumption, but Merish productively complicates the relationships amo...
"A SPECULATING SPIRIT" Trade, Speculation, and Gambling in Early American Fiction 1993 309 The excerpt quoted above, from a poem printed in pamphlet form in 1791, captures both the hope and the disappointment wrought by changing economic conditions in the newly formed United States after the Revolution. "Speculation" and its companion vic...