...Adam Long 9 Faulkner Adam Long This has been an active year in William Faulkner scholarship, with four major book-length collections of articles, two issues of the Faulkner Journal, several Faulkner-focused sections of other major journals, and a variety of other book- and article...

... and stratification in American society. MacDonald combines cultural analysis, social theories, and narratology with close readings of two novels and several short stories in order to demonstrate how Fitzgerald understood the role that sports—with their democratizing, merit-based narratives...

...Lee Bartlett Duke University Press 2002 18 Poetry: The 1940s to the Present Lee Bartlett i Poets’ Prose Two of the year’s more significant books are not critical per se, but posthumously published prose by two poets: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (Anchor...

..., with work onThe Touchstone, “Bunner Sisters,” Old New York, and “The Other Two.” The fiction is open to a variety of approaches, with treatments of gender and man- ners as well as explorations of Wharton as a critic of consumer culture, in relation to publication history, and in the context...

... com- mon ground between Wharton and Ernest Hemingway, speci cally that they be seen as introducing literary modernism. e two most compel- ling arguments come, not surprisingly, from two established Wharton scholars, Laura Rattray and Jennifer Haytock. e idea for this extended study of the two authors...

... to A Farewell to Arms, followed by The Garden of Eden and some of the best-known short stories. As compared to recent years, A Moveable Feast is surprisingly mentioned only in passing, and The Sun Also Rises is underrepresented, as well. Hemingway scholarship, again, outweighs Fitzgerald scholarship nearly two...

... two critical books, two critical introduc- tions, and 36 articles or book chapters. Many focus on Wharton not as a 19th-century realist—although interest in literary naturalism remains strong—but as a 20th-century writer engaged in modernist practices and astute about the ideological...

... that Estelle wrote during the last years of her first marriage formed the basis of a full-fledged “col- laboration” between her and William that did nothing less than give him “the means to translate himself from the stuck poet to the great novelist,” Faulkner and Love founders on two serious grounds...

... the printing of books more difficult and more costly. This survey begins with work that may be of special interest to teachers as well as researchers, then moves to essays and book chapters before concluding with the year s two book publications on Melville and his world. i Of Use to Teachers of Melville I...

... ones from lecture into essay form, including “Poetry and Imagination,” “Eloquence,” and “Immortality.” A two-volume edition of Emerson’s journals, Selected Journals, 1820– 1877, ed. Lawrence Alan Rosenwald (Library of America), reprints about one-third of Harvard’s Journals and Miscellaneous...

... that Nicole “is perhaps the best example in Tender of a totality of refractions [of Sara Murphy, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Fitzgerald’s two dead sisters] in a resentimentalizing of representations,” Messenger concentrates on Zelda’s mental illness, positing that Fitzgerald sought “control...

.... Of particular note is the quality of work produced by newer Hemingway scholars. Because of the amount of scholarship appearing annually on these two writers, we must as always emphasize the selectivity required in this essay. i  Text Letters, Archives, Annotations, and Bibliography a. Fitzgerald...

... the an- nual volumes of American Literary Scholarship and like the best of the new reference publications I mention here. This year s work is highlighted by new editions of two comprehensive reference guides and by two new literary encyclopedias. The best of these, notable for the care and thoroughness of its...

... impacts on Faulkner s writ- ing early on, labeling Intruder in the Dust a B-movie and pointing out that Faulkner s writing As I Lay Dying while working in the university power plant illustrates a moment of living two parallel lives. The first point represents an original reading, and Curnutt differs...

... publications, as usual, Moby-Dick receives the most attention, and little significant appears on the poetry, the less-read novels, or even the stories, with the exception of “Benito Cereno.” It is a banner year for Billy Budd criticism, however, both in single-text articles and in two books...

...Dorothy Chansky Duke University Press 2008 18  Drama Dorothy Chansky No assessment of American drama this year could fail to note two headline-making events in the field: the death of Wendy Wasserstein and the opening of Suzan-Lori Parks’s year-long play...

... it as evidence of bold, successful experimen- tation. The year’s abundance of Cather scholarship includes books by major Cather scholars Janis P. Stout and Merrill Maguire Skaggs; the Scholarly Edition of Alexander’s Bridge; two fine collections, including nearly 50 essays; and 25 separate articles...

... of Wharton’s previously unpublished plays and novels. Critical studies reflect a wide range of critical methodologies applied to many texts. Jean Carol Griffith has written an excellent study of regionalism and Dianne Chambers a valuable feminist critique of narrative style. Two studies of Darwinism...

..., the Scriv- ener.” The English department at St. Joseph’s University in New York City has begun a new online journal, The Milton and Melville Review, which publishes essays too brief to cover here but may be worth watching for future development. Two good essays on Moby-Dick and museum culture...

...M. Jimmie Killingsworth Duke University Press 2005 4 Whitman and Dickinson M. Jimmie Killingsworth Relatively few new books appeared this year on the two leading poets of 19th-century America. Even so, significant contributions made their way into print, including the second...