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examines the conflicting political accents in which American literature speaks the language
of sentiment. Much, but far from all, of that work focuses on American fiction and prose
published between 1789 and the Civil War. I also have a long-standing interest in British
and American working class and left wing literature from the nineteenth-century through the
1930s. The latest fruit of that interest is my proposal to digitize the Voice of Industry,
a labor reform newspaper published in Massachusetts between 1845 and 1848. That proposal was
recently accepted by the Indiana University Digital Library. I am currently working on an article
about how, or indeed whether, the fiction reprinted in the Voice might be pronounced with
what Michael Denning terms “mechanic accents.” I have a Master’s degree in Library and
Information Science, as well as a Ph.D. in English, and I’m eager to combine those areas
of specialization in a course on Methods of Literary Research.
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