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The article examines the role of runaway advertisements in aiding the re-enslavement of slaves during the Romantic era. Topics discussed include the Consolidated Slave Act (1788), the description of maroonage and canonization, and the efforts of slaves for their emancipation as recorded in runaway advertisements printed in British West Indian newspapers in the Romantic era.

A recurrent but relatively unquestioned element in the canonisation ofAdventures of Huckleberry Finnis that the novel is about securing a meaningful way forward for the American child. The sense is that the novel deserves to live and to have a future because it is about a child, and tied in with the need for the young nation to project and to determine its future. This might seem, to apply the terms of queer debate, to lend weight to ‘reproductive futurism’: the child and ‘American family values’ are to the fore, while sexual minorities and alternative social models are excluded. The present essay re-readsHuckleberry Finnand Twain's other Huck narratives, using the coordinates of queer theory. The result is a more equivocal picture. Twain does use Huck to assert the rights of the white American family, but he also uses him to explore alternative ideas of social organisation. More fundamentally, Twain increasingly finds that the idea of the child is no longer a sufficient motive for believing in and projecting a future. Rather, his writing leads the reader towards the impossibility of the future, both for the nation and its child. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the transatlantic dimension of early American writing as an important perspective for an understanding of the development of literary criticism and self-reflectivity in colonial America and the young United States. Similarities and differences vis-à-vis the British debates are analysed, with special emphasis being placed on the particularity of American literary production in the eighteenth century. The question of how literary value was defined discursively in the later eighteenth century is considered by exploring two exemplary mechanisms of literary selection; the anthology and the literary magazine, both of which were imported into American culture from Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the canon in a structure of French course in the United States. Contrast between literature and language studies; Influence of theories of language on the materials covered in a structure class; Concept of structure class; Features that make structure class distinct; Material relevant to structure courses; Complete look at the other aspect of the canon.