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... “the interplay between faith and doubt” in his fiction and poetry. His close analysis of Melville’s marginalia in a number of key texts, including William Rounseville Alger’s The Solitudes of Nature and of Man, the New Testament and Psalms, and Milton’s Paradise Lost, creates a rich context in which...

..., diaries, memoirs, letters, and etiquette manuals as well as literary sources, Montgomery presents a comprehensive analysis of the rituals and customs by which the fashionable society that Wharton portrayed in her fiction preserved its traditions, determined its membership, and defined the ideals...

... to be in decline. i  African American Literature A 2006 conference marking the centenary of Dunbar’s death provides the occasion for a special issue of AAR devoted to the appreciation and analysis of his work. A handful of essays stand chiefly as per- sonal meditations on Dunbar’s...

... of literary analysis and sociology in the work of Erving Goffman. To make a case for “reading imaginative literature as a means of apprehending sociality,” Alworth focuses on Goffman’s extensive use of Melville’s White-Jacket in his Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other...

... to continue, since 2013 will see the first publication of a selection of Cather’s letters by Knopf. Of special note this year is Andrew Jewell and Brian L. Pyt- lik Zillig’s, “ ‘Counted Out at Last’: Text Analysis on the Willa Cather Archive,” pp. 169–84 in American Literature Scholar in the Digital...

... masses” and prefigures the destructive forces that would lead to World War I. Shafquat Towheed’s “When the Reading Had to Stop: Readers, Reading and the Circulation of Texts in The Custom of the Country” ( pp. 29–41), in an astute analysis of reading practices, dubs Custom Wharton’s “most...

... examines Melville’s maritime novels as fictional extension of the legal disputes over the rights and duties of seamen as a class. In her analysis of Redburn and White-Jacket, she identifies a tension between legal formalism and natural law that is symptomatic of a deeper tension between...

... areas of study, the most compelling studies here are interdisciplinary and distinguished by an increasingly wide focus. The context for analysis is not just a historical moment but the sweep of history. A particularly apt example opens William Inge: Essays and Reminis- cences on the Plays...

... Cooper. Two central terms controlling Goudie’s analysis are paracolonialism and Cre- ole context. Each of these terms speaks to a prevailing ambivalence and ambiguity concerning the positioning of the United States relative to European colonial powers and their possessions in the New World, par...

... Yankee in King Arthur s Court. This is a wide-ranging and perceptive overview, with an analysis of Connecticut Yankee that greatly contributes to our understanding of that novel. Ann M. Ryan s Haunting the Ghost of Mark Twain, pp. 160 72 in Darryl Caterine and John W. Morehead, eds., The Paranormal...

... the data and the contexts with which we approach the pair. Other work usefully imports concepts and methods from other disciplines, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, and psychology among them, and most approaches are anchored in close analysis of Wharton s and Cather s texts. What follows are brief...

...,” and yet, as Weinstein observes, the author devoted himself to fiction with a vigor suggesting that his life of writing “must matter.” The dialectical tension between these two poles drives Weinstein’s acute analysis. Eschewing chronological structure, Weinstein adopts a thematic approach...

... relation of poetic and visual cul- tures in Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film (Cambridge) exemplifies the pervasive and productive crossing of boundaries in the disciplinary register, and Cristianne Miller’s analysis of gendered literary communities, Cultures of Modernism: Marianne...

... volume delivers what the title prom- ises, collecting the innovative contributions of several Italian scholars. Gianfranca Balestra s e Island Is a Prison Margaret Atwood s Hag-Seed: e Tempest Retold (pp. ) provides an extensive critical analysis of Atwood s rewriting of Shakespeare s play while...

... and transcendent aspects in view at the same time.” Jackson illustrates her dual approach through the close analysis of many and varied examples from Dickinson’s manuscript record that take into account extrageneric features, like the figure of a nightingale that Dickinson cut from the New England Primer...

... say “Urinetown the ensemble sings in harmony. The songs present sociological motives and didactic lessons as well.” A more difficult examination of aesthetics and popular art is made by Douglas Jones in his analysis “Aesthetics, Ideology, and the Use of the Victim in Early American Melodrama...

... the character makes twisted by time and circumstances. All the while the audience knows the outcome 346 Drama that the characters do not. Halpin s analysis is interesting, though there are many other contemporary plays that scramble chronology without borrowing from contemporary physics as their justification...

...: An Unsung Mathematical Odyssey (Princeton) touts Franklin’s arithmetic skills in an analysis of mathematical material in Franklin’s writing, including almanacs, magic squares, and essays, arguing that he was an extremely impressive if untrained mathematician. The more conventional topic...

... qualified that she clearly can give no credence to the idea that a fluid, multidimensional self is feminine rather than mascu- line especially in poets. Most strangely of all, she worries that her own methodology of intellectual argument and specific analysis is too close to a masculine mode...

...- cism, allied with his animus against it, fueled his assumption that every Catholic would buy the book; thus, Fulton asserts, Twain s failure as publisher to the pope was as much a failure of imagination as it was a failure of marketing. Fulton o ers a well-documented analysis of an aspect of Twain s...