...Laura Henigman Missionary Positions: Evangelicalism and Empire in American Fiction . By Tricomi Albert H. . Gainesville : Univ. Press of Florida . 2011 . xii, 263 pp. $74.95 . Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century US Literature...

..., 2006) and the coeditor of Boys Don't Cry? Rethinking US Narratives of Masculinity and Emotions (Columbia Univ. Press, 2003) and of Bigger than Ben-Hur: The Book, Its Adaptations, and Their Audiences (Syracuse Univ. Press, 2015). Territories of Empire: US Writing from the Louisiana Purchase...

...Monica Huerta American Blood: The Ends of the Family in American Literature, 1850–1900 . By Jackson Holly . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2014 . x , 201 pp. $65.00 . Until Choice Do Us Part: Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era . Eby Clare Virginia . Chicago : Univ...

...Victor Bascara God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 . By Harris Susan K. . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . xii , 257 pp. $35.00 . Empire’s Proxy: American Literature and US Imperialism in the Philippines . By Wesling Meg . New York : New York...

... of poststructural theory, experimental literary forms, and transnational, decolonial politics in the United States and Asia, a more sustained engagement with Thai American and Thai poetry can offer a critical entry point to address US informal empire building in Southeast Asia, including activities often occluded...

... in relation to issues of empire surrounding the US-Mexico war, the essay refocuses attention on broader discourses of settler colonialism. Attending to the recurrence embedded in the ostensibly linear forms of these works, and to images in which they confront US settlement of lands that contain other...

... a response to industrialization and militarization in the South, but as a sustained novelistic reflection on modes of urban renewal in both the United States and a Europe under reconstruction through the Marshall Plan. By unearthing the bivalent history of US urbanism’s sounds and spaces, Requiem for a Nun...

...Gary Hall What forms will literary and cultural criticism take in the twenty-first century, given the move toward open access, open data, and open government that is currently being promoted in the name of greater efficiency and transparency? Will the growing use of digital tools and data-led...

... and literary discourses to fashion empirical, reparative accounts of their better-off African American communities. Engaging with these texts allows us to understand the role that regional specificity played in formulating race, class, and status across an expanding nation, but more importantly, it makes us...

... African American literature generates pro- and antiexpansionist sentiment at the turn of the century. In tandem, these two studies raise important questions about race and literature in relation to the variable and shifting scales of US empire building across the long nineteenth century. Heeding...

... and controllable effects on human minds and bodies. In stories such as “The Blue Hotel” and “The Broken-Down Van” and in the novels The Red Badge of Courage and The Third Violet , Crane draws from and contributes to these experiments with abstract or “pure” color. He uses color to explore the networks of sensation...

...” ( 1952 ) Philippines US empire global anglophone literature peripheral realism bildungsroman remittance fiction novel Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 References Acuña Rafael A. 2009 . “ The World, the Text, and S. P. Lopez .” Kritika Kultura , no. 13...

... in the Philippines—makes for compelling evidence of the crucial role that American literature came to eventually play for the classrooms of the empire, and that empire played for the literature. The audience most immediately served by these books is American studies scholars looking for useful approaches...

...] in the global Far East” in the nineteenth century, US merchant princes, the robber barons of their day, made fortunes that not only “funded westward frontier expansion” but “shaped the cultural foundation of the early Republic,” forging a transpacific American sphere consistent with empire’s presumed westward...

... reciprocity between white-authored US children’s literature and US empire. Many of these books for young people encouraged new generations to endorse and expand the very imperialism whose profits fueled the growth of the (white-authored) children’s literature industry. 10 Even in the context of this boom...

... will be the history of books? We are just getting started. Matthew P. Brown, University of Iowa DOI 10.1215/00029831-2395438 God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898–1902. By Susan K. Harris. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2011. xii, 257 pp. $35.00. Empire’s Proxy: American Literature and US...

... challenges from American and Soviet women who articulated alternative ways of inhabiting the Cold War kitchen. If the kitchen debate shows how a KitchenAid mixer could aid US empire building, it also, Baldwin writes, “offers an opportunity to observe instances of this idea’s undoing” and to see “how...

... on equal footing with one another,” which contributes to the twofold erasure and intensification of US empire. Yoked to forms of race and racialization that largely envisioned the inhabitants of the continental United States as white English-speaking Anglo-Saxon Protestants, this influential “logo map...

... referring to it as a break from the interdiscipline’s main path. Shelley Streeby’s Radical Sensations and Neda Atanasoski’s Humanitarian Violence, two books on global cultural studies and US empire, offer us deep and ample evidence of how far transnational methodology has come in the field, and how...

...”—that empirical modes of inquiry, particularly into the individual soul itself, may legitimately expand humankind’s knowledge of God. More specifically, both natural philosophers and theologians were cau- tiously hopeful about the possibilities of using spiritual testimonies, of the sort...