Karen A. Weyler

Karen Weyler’s research and teaching interests are grounded in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature. She is particularly interested in the history of the book, the novel, literary periodicals, and ephemera of all kinds. She is the author of Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789-1814 (Iowa, 2004) and Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America, 1760-1815 (Georgia, 2013). With Robert Battistini and Michael Cody, she is editing The Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive and Scholarly Edition. Vol. 3: The Literary Magazine and Other Writings, 1803-1807 (forthcoming 2015 from Bucknell University Press).

There are 11 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 1129 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...
Creating a Community of Readers: Mary Mebane's Exploration of Difference in Mary and Mary, Wayfarer 1997 2703 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...
A Different Feminist Scholarship: Research Challenges in Eighteenth-Century America 2009 1131 As someone whose scholarly interests place her with one foot in the eighteenth century and one foot in the nineteenth century, I feel drawn to respond to whether feminist scholarship produced by early Americanists is different from that produced by s...
A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle- Class Desire [book review] 1999 3062 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.
Gender and Humor in Early America 2004 1553 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...
Marriage, Coverture, and the Companionate Ideal in The Coquette and Dorval 2009 5550 In this essay, I focus on Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette and Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood's Dorval, novels suggestive of how the topos of coverture is explored in early American fiction with regard to bourgeois women. While discussions of...
Private Property: Charles Brockden Brown’s Gendered Economics of Virtue [book review] 1997 803 A book review of Private Property: Charles Brockden Brown’s Gendered Economics of Virtue. By Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds
Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Glenn Hendler. 2002 945 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 1843 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 1988 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...
"A Tale of Our Own Times": Early American Women's Novels, Reprints, and the Seduction of the Familiar 2013 2253 A review of the books “Charlotte Temple: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism” by Susanna Rowson, “Clarence; or, A Tale of Our Own Times “by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, “The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton”, “The Boarding School; or, Less...