...David M. Stewart © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770–1870 . By Trish Loughran. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2007. xxv, 537 pp. Cloth, $46.50; paper, $24.50. The Business of Letters: Authorial...

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...Clayton Marsh Duke University Press 2005 Clayton Stealing Time: Poe’s Confidence Men Marsh and the ‘‘Rush of the Age’’ On 8 July 1849, the New York Herald reported the arrest of a petty watch thief, alias William Thompson, who called himself...

..., $21.95. From Girl to Woman: American Women’s Coming-of-Age Narratives. By Christy Rishoi. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2003. xi, 202 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $20.95. Born too late to share the dubious distinction of being one of Hawthorne’s mob of women scribblers, Louisa May Alcott...

... never be a real, political opposition Anna Brickhouse, University of Colorado, Boulder Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology. By Michael A. Bryson. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2002. xvii, 228 pp...

... story that one hopes it also reaches an audience beyond the academy. Robert K. Nelson, College of William and Mary Getting at the Author: Reimagining Books and Reading in the Age of American...

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.... Ormond Seavey, George Washington University Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson: Joseph Denny and ‘‘The Port Folio 1801–1812. By William C. Dowling. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press. 1999...

... work in the urgent process of analyzing the complex racial dynamics of U.S. culture. Malini Johar Schueller, University of Florida 196 American Literature Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America. By Gavin Jones. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press...

...Anne W. Gulick Duke University Press 2006 Anne W. We Are Not the People: Gulick The 1805 Haitian Constitution’s Challenge to Political Legibility in the Age of Revolution As the symbolic and pragmatic uses of Haiti change over...

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... in an Age of Consumption . By Betjemann Peter . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2011 . ix , 267 pp. Cloth , $35.00 ; e-book available . Body Double: The Author Incarnate in the Cinema . By Fischer Lucy . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2013 . 273 pp. Cloth...

...Gerry Canavan Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom . By Scott Selisker . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2016 . 256 pp. Cloth, $91.00 ; paper, $26.00 ; e-book available. Editing the Soul: Science and Fiction in the Genome Age...

... World , and the flood of reality TV shows that followed it, with their obligatory “confessionals,” betokens, as Grobe argues, the mainstreaming of performed confession into American culture. Only in his conclusion, “Confession in the Age of Aggregation,” does Grobe touch on the relationship of social...

...Brent Ryan Bellamy The Argument about Things in the 1980s: Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism . By Tim Jelfs . Morgantown : West Virginia Univ. Press . 2018 . xii, 198 pp. Cloth, $99.99 ; paper, $29.99 ; e-book, $29.99 . The Half-Life of Deindustrialization...

... word’s contrarianism settles into the realm of respectability (like early rock and roll and Christian rock before it), Kane has done readers a service by explicating one unique, fascinating manifestation of that urge. Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll . By Florence...