... Of One Blood ( ) and Louisa May Alcott s Little Women ( ) receive more critical notice than many works by traditionally canonical white male realists. Once dismissed as a mission- ary melodrama, Of One Blood has been rediscovered as a complex novel that anticipates Afrofuturism and explores relevant...

... and . . . their understanding of their shared audience.” The conversation amounts to an introductory comparison that offers little that is new to readers already generally familiar with the lives and autobiographies of Wharton and Stein. Despite but also largely because of her success in the U.S...

... but not exclusively literary, and making broad social and historical claims about life in these United States. The challenge is hardly a new one, but the discipline’s last concerted attempt to meet it, during the cold war, now commands little respect. If studying the nation’s constitutive myths, symbols...

.../noir fiction are especially popular subjects. David Alan Rennie’s “ ‘The Best Combatant Story of the Great War Thematic and Descriptive Juxtaposition in Thomas Boyd’s Through the Wheat” (Midamerica 41: 95–104) argues that this little-known war novel deserves more critical attention. Through...

... have received very little attention this year. An insightful essay by Mary Chapman, ‘‘ ‘Happy Shall He Be, That Taketh and Dasheth Thy Little Ones against the Stones’: Infanticide in Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans’’ (Inventing Maternity: Politics, Science, and Literature, 1650–1865, ed...

... the printed poem quite significantly. This rather lame conclusion belies the intelligence with which she inspects the poems. The issue of race is muted in Wheeler’s discussion, but this deficit is made up for by Robert Paul Lamb’s “ ‘A Little Yellow Bastard Boy’: Paternal Rejection, Filial Insistence...

..., with each entry containing a paragraph or two about the author, a brief discussion of her major works and a summary of their critical reception, and a bibliography—a format that permits little originality. One of the few books germane to this chapter this year that rises above the banal...

... detective-hero Philip Marlowe ‘‘might well be gay I am in- Gary Scharnhorst 573 creasingly impatient with books that presume to ‘‘out’’ authors with little or no basis in fact long after they are dead. Of related interest: Con- temporary Gay American Poets...

... sister, Onoto Wantanna (aka Winnifred Eaton). Asian American Literature: Reviews and Criticism of Works by American Writers of Asian Descent, ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau (Gale), like other volumes in this series, is little more than a crib sheet for students working on deadline, a type of all...

... for Children, A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, and Tanglewood Tales; the stories “The Gentle Boy,” “Little Annie’s Ramble,” “Little Daffydowndilly,” “A Good Man’s Miracle,” and “The Snow- Image”; and other works Hawthorne edited or ghostwrote. Originally received and reviewed as works of substance...

... Day­ light, The Valley of the Moon, and The Little Lady of the Big House and Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer as ecological texts that “address a number of environmental crises that we humans have brought about,” includ- ing an exploding population, the destruction of forests, and poisonous...

... its silence in a scholarly forum; more collaboration of this kind, however brisk in tone, would constitute a refreshing change from the ever-increasing number of scholarly studies of historical figures whose connections and contribu- tions warrant little more attention than a footnote...

... reads in his article. Hall foregrounds how Ital- ian “art, monuments, picturesque scenes,” and other aesthetic elements captivated the fancy of the artistic Sophia, while she directed “little attention to the life, culture, people, or social and political institutions of nineteenth-century...

...—especially the appearance of new Cambridge Companions and Cambridge Histories—dominate this market niche. While these ana- lytical volumes and chronicles are valuable teaching tools because they consolidate research in emerging fields, they break little new ground, unlike bibliographies, once...

... by suggesting that Eula might well see her marriage to Flem as “not trouble, but opportunity”: “She must have agreed to the match or she simply would have resisted and triumphed with her all-powerful inertia; it makes little sense to believe that Eula marries Flem against her will when she does nothing...

...: they pres- ent a kind of bricolage aesthetic that questions what we can do with concepts and their various junctures with materials and landscapes. iii Avant-Garde Communities and the Politics of Form Sophie Seita s Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazine Communities from Dada to Digital (Stanford...

... and Gordon A. Tapper’s The Machine That Sings: Modernism, Hart Crane, and the Culture of the Body. A third exception, leaving aside the single-author criterion, is available in Suzanne Churchill’s The Little Magazine “Others” and the Renovation of Modern American Poetry, a fine...

... Vergangenes, to misappropriate Hegel’s term a little.” If this combination of shift and respect is alarming to anyone in literary studies, it is a bit déjà-vu/ho-hum for scholars of drama and theater, or perhaps I should say for scholars of drama in theater, that slippery site where text...

... to Elizabeth Bishop. Recent scholarship also addresses the problem of history in relation to poetry, either by addressing the idea of history itself or by seeking to address prevailing issues of the past without replacing them by current scholarly concerns. i General Research on little magazines...

...). Houen o√ers little new about the issue of anti-Semitism but is interesting in addressing Pound’s embar- rassing relationship with his very young and unstable adulator John Kasper, owner of the ‘‘Make It New’’ bookstore in Greenwich Village and eventual leader of the Seaboard White Citizen’s...