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... played fast and loose with convention.” Fitzgerald’s was “a voice that expressed the coming of the modern,” a claim Glenday examines in the novels and selected stories. The “air of risk-taking vitality” he attributes to This Side of Paradise, for instance, underscores Fitzgerald’s other novels...

... and English communities, here with a focus on Occom’s son-in-law Joseph Johnson. In a similar vein, Eric Gary Anderson’s “Red Crosscurrents: Performative Spaces and Indian Cultural Author- ity in the Florida Atlantic Captivity Narrative of Jonathan Dickinson” (MissQ 65: 17–32) examines...

... and the Ghost of Ralph Waldo Emerson (pp. ) Jerome Loving considers Whitman s th birth- day dinner, held at Morgan s Hall in Camden, New Jersey, on May , and examines remarks made there by several attendees, including Julian Hawthorne, who o ered a defense of Whitman before going on to denounce the poet...

... bibliography ( pp. 143–56) contains Fitzgerald scholarship, Gatsby criticism, and various cultural and historical works. In convincingly tracing the novel’s cultural-scholarly narrative, Beuka examines contemporary reviews in the first chapter, noting how some followed a “pattern” of “bold attacks...

... identities. Two scholars examine the spaces in which these affiliations formed in the colonial period. In her important bookSea - sons of Misery: Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America (Penn.) Kathleen Donegan views settlements as “liminal places” situ- ated between exploration...

...Peter Norberg © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 3 Melville Peter Norberg This year’s scholarship on Herman Melville is an intriguing mix of old and new. While some scholars continue to examine Melville’s deep- diving engagement with world literature, religion, and philosophy...

..., ed. Robert S. Levine, includes eight essays that introduce readers to new critical approaches to Melville studies; those that examine individual works will be discussed sepa- rately in the relevant sections that follow. The collection opens with Geoffrey Sanborn’s “Melville and the Nonhuman...

... or another with the African Atlantic, the Atlantic world, Anglo-American transatlanticism, or hemispheric studies. Attention to the ideologies and effects of colonialism and the centrality of exchange, circulation, and networks were major emphases in most of this work. Examinations of print culture...

... The Novel: A Biography(Harvard) examines the novel in English, creat- ing dialogues among authors and books, and sometimes among authors of different time periods. For example, Schmidt pairs Aphra Behn and Zora Neale Hurston in their presentations of America and puts together Willa Cather, Sarah...

..., and abolitionist periodicals and examines the travel writings of Afro-Jamaican Mary Seacole, free Afri- can American Bostonian Nancy Prince, and New England Transcen- dentalist Margaret Fuller, showing in each of these women activists the importance of physical mobility in transporting them from...

...: the birthplace home in Florida, Mis- souri; the boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri; the Clemens family home in Hartford, Connecticut; and Quarry Farm in Elmira, New York. Lowe examines the history of each site, including connections to Twain, but also detailing the often troubling and controversial...

... theoretical approaches. Over 25 articles (not all of them considered here), 4 chapters in books and edited collections, and 5 monographs were pub- lished in 2012, including comparative studies that examine Melville’s early sea novels in relation to those of James Fenimore Cooper and Melville’s...

... articles. In Ralph Ellison and the Politics of the Novel (Lexington) H. Wil- liam Rice explores Ellison’s contributions to the American novel. Rice uses Invisible Man, Ellison’s essay collections, and Juneteenth to examine Ellison’s philosophies of writing, especially his awareness of what was required...

... book-length study offers valuable insight into the Native American presence in New England, while a few articles offer perspectives on a number of issues relating to the period’s important Indian literature. Scholars examine a number of prominent literary women, among them Harriet Beecher Stowe...

.... Further, examining both authors in the contexts of media studies, adaptation studies, and evolving pedagogy represents a valuable and constructive challenge. i  F. Scott Fitzgerald a. Books and Essay Collections  The lack of monographs notwith- standing, this year welcomes the publication...

..., and discussing new additions to the Parker canon. Gender parody is the subject of Andrea Ivanov Craig s Being and Dying as a Woman in the Short Fiction of Dorothy Parker pp. 95 109 in Performing Gender and Comedy: Theories, Texts, and Contexts (Gordon and Breach), ed. Shannon Hengen. Craig examines the many...

... to 2006,” a vast and admirable scope. Examining the relationship between “collector interest and lit- erary reputation,” Bruccoli and Baughman look at the marketing, presentation, and descriptive language of Fitzgerald’s books in a col- lecting context—such as that on the dust jacket of a first...

...Michael L. Burduck © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 12  Early-19th-Century Literature Michael L. Burduck A thorough examination of this year’s scholarship fails to uncover any truly groundbreaking scholarship. Fortunately, however, a collection of noteworthy studies do appear...

... with Death and Desire: The Telephone and Lovers’ Discourse in the Short Stories of Dorothy Parker” (ArQ 62, iv: 47–70) April Middeljans examines four telephone stories by Parker: “A Telephone Call,” “Dusk Before Fireworks,” “New York to Detroit,” and “Advice to the Little Peyton Girl.” In these works...

... biographical study of Melville’s friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne, and a single monograph that examines Thomas Carlyle’s influence on Melville’s interest in fashion, writing, and the construction of identity in the modern age. i  Biographies, Editions, and Reference Works Erik Hage’s The Hawthorne...