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Most cited papers in American and British Literature Analysis

American and British Literature Analysis

What are the most cited papers in American and British Literature Analysis?

The most cited paper in American and British Literature Analysis is "To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature." (David W. Blight, Eric J. Sundquist, 1994), with 484 citations. Next come "Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America." (449) and "Husbands and wives" (379).

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Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 44 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature. David W. Blight, Eric J. Sundquist · Journal of American History	Mar 1994	484
2	Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America. Nina Baym, Richard H. Brodhead · American Literature	Mar 1994	449
3	Husbands and wives Scott Johnson · Contemporary Family Therapy	Dec 1993	379
4	Brave New Schools: Challenging Cultural Illiteracy through Global Learning Networks Mark Warschauer, Jim Cummins, Dennis Sayers · TESOL Quarterly	1996	248
5	THE AUSTRALOPITHECINE FACE Yoel Rak · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter	1983	247
6	Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance Selwyn R. Cudjoe, Gloria T. Hull · Journal of American History	Sep 1988	247
7	Historical Fantasy, Speculative Realism, and Postrace Aesthetics in Contemporary American Fiction Ramón Saldívar · American Literary History	2 Aug 2011	227
8	Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography Joseph Taylor Skerrett, Robert E. Hemenway · MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States	1978	210
9	An Experiment in Autobiography Gregory J. Chaitin · WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks Book chapter	Feb 2020	195
10	The (m)other tongue essays in feminist psychoanalytic interpretation Shirley N Garner	1985	194
11	Stations of the Lost: The Treatment of Skid Row Alcoholics Howard M. Bahr, Jacqueline P. Wiseman · The Journal of Criminal Law Criminology and Police Science	Mar 1971	157
12	Hiatus hernia. A review of some controversial points N R Barrett · British journal of surgery	Nov 1954	156
13	American Palestine: Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania Peter W. Williams, Hilton Obenzinger · Journal of American History	Dec 2000	149
14	Transpacific Imaginations: History, Literature, Counterpoetics Hsuan L. Hsu · Comparative American Studies An International Journal	Sep 2009	124
15	Emily Dickinson and her Culture: The Soul's Society. Beverly R. Voloshin, Barton Levi St. Armand · American Literature	Dec 1985	121
16	TENNIS ELBOW—A REAPPRAISAL M D Chard, B. L. Hazleman · Lara D. Veeken	1989	121
17	Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary Mary Sumner Benson, Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James et al. · Journal of American History	Mar 1973	113
18	Some Directions for the Investigation of Ego Development in Early Adolescence James E. Marcia · The Journal of Early Adolescence	Sep 1983	113
19	Foreigners: The Making of American Literature, 1900-1940 James Gilbert, Marcus Klein · Journal of American History	Sep 1982	107
20	The City, the Immigrant, and American Fiction, 1880-1920 Richard Tuerk, David M. Fine · MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States	1978	105
21	The Female Alcoholic A. Balfour Sclare · British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other Drugs	May 1970	102
22	AUTHENTIC OR NOT, IT'S ORIGINAL Meredith E. Abarca · Food and Foodways	2004	102
23	Melville's Quarrel with Fiction Nina Baym · PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America	Oct 1979	99
24	George Orwell the Essayist: literature, politics and the periodical culture Jackson Ayres · Prose Studies	Dec 2012	99
25	Ernest Hemingway: A Psychological Autopsy of a Suicide Christopher D. Martin · Psychiatry	Dec 2006	97
26	A Narrative of the Interesting Origins and (Somewhat) Surprising Developments of African-American Print Culture F. S. Foster · American Literary History	2005	97
27	Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962) Joseph R. McElrath, Jesse S. Crisler, Susan Shillinglaw · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	13 Jun 1996	95
28	Locating and Defining the Bio in Biofiction Michael Lackey · a/b Auto/Biography Studies Open access	8 Dec 2015	94
29	Uncanny Stories: The Ghost Story As Female Gothic Diana Wallace · Gothic Studies	May 2004	92
30	THE TRANSFER OF BLOOD BETWEEN BABY AND PLACENTA IN THE MINUTES AFTER BIRTH Mavis Gunther · The Lancet	Jun 1957	90
31	In the Company of Books: Literature and Its "Classes" in Nineteenth-Century America Barbara Ryan · Journal of American History	Jun 2007	89
32	Female transsexualism: Part II Ira B. Pauly · Archives of Sexual Behavior	Nov 1974	88
33	Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America Lisa Malinowski Steinman · Journal of American History	Nov 2013	87
34	Felicitous Space: The Imaginative Structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather Linda Simon, Judith Fryer · Journal of American History	Mar 1987	86
35	The Sorcerer's Broom: Medicine's Rampant Technology Eric J. Cassell · The Hastings Center Report	Nov 1993	83
36	Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin Elizabeth A. Bohls, Rod Edmond · Comparative Literature	1999	82
37	Katherine Mansfield and literary modernism Lydia Wevers · Journal of Postcolonial Writing	24 Jan 2012	82
38	The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Gunther Barth, Dana Brand · Journal of the Early Republic	1992	81
39	The Booker T. Washington Papers Allan H. Spear, Louis R. Harlan, John W. Blassingame et al. · Journal of American History	Dec 1973	80
40	Professing Literature: An Institutional History Jeffrey Cane Robinson · The Journal of Higher Education	Nov 1988	80
41	On the Real Side: Laughing, Lying, and Signifying--The Underground Tradition of African-American Humor that Transformed American Culture, from Slavery to Richard Pryor. Thomas R. Cripps, Mel Watkins · The American Historical Review	Jun 1995	80
42	Writing out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture Rebecca L. Johnson · ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment	2004	79
43	Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: a ghost story and a biography, 1670–1834 Barbara Bush · Women s History Review	Nov 2010	76
44	A History of the Book in Australia Philip Mead · UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) Review	15 Dec 2009	75
45	Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance Barbara Hochman · Reception Texts Readers Audiences History	2014	73
46	Pornography, porno, porn: thoughts on a weedy field Linda Williams · Porn Studies	2 Jan 2014	72
47	From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature Susan‐Mary Grant · Social History	May 2012	72
48	Going Overboard: African American Poetic Innovation and the Middle Passage Evie Shockley · Contemporary Literature	2011	72
49	Telegraphy is an occult art: Cromwell Fleetwood Varley and the diffusion of electricity to the other world Richard Noakes · The British Journal for the History of Science	Dec 1999	71
50	On the demise of everyday memory: "The rumors of my death are much exaggerated" (Mark Twain). Stephen J. Ceci, Urie Bronfenbrenner · American Psychologist	1991	71

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