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...Renée Bergland 2005 Writing for Immortality: Women Writers and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America . By Anne E. Boyd. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2004. x, 305 pp. $55.00; The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789...

...Dana D. Nelson © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America. By Richard Stott. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2009. 376 pp. $55.00. Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum...

...Kevin Modestino Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of Democracy . By Mark Rebecca . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2014 . xiii, 300 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; paper, $29.50 . America Writes Its History, 1650–1850: The Formation of a National...

...Sean Metzger A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific . By Hua Hsu . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2016 . 276 pp. Cloth, $29.95 . Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network . By Richard Jean So . New...

...Duncan Faherty Duke University Press 2007 Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America . By Jennifer J. Baker. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2005. x, 218 pp. $50.00. The Backcountry and the City: Colonization and Conflict...

...Michelle A. Stephens Duke University Press 2007 Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic . By Sean X. Goudie. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. 275 pp. $55.00. Reworlding America: Myth, History...

...Lance Newman Duke University Press 2007 Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America . By Anne Baker. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2006. 173 pp. $60.00. Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America . By Susan Clair Imbarrato...

...Jeffory A. Clymer Duke University Press 2006 Rewriting White: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century America . By Todd Vogel. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2004. x, 194 pp. Cloth, $62.00; paper, $22.95. The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality...

...Daniel Pecchenino Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post–World War II America . By Cheever Abigail . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2010 . viii , 312 pp. Cloth , $59.95 ; paper , $24.95 . Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World...

...Dennis Moore Jeremiah’s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England . By Neuman Meredith Marie . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2013 . x, 265 pp. Cloth , $69.95 ; e-book, $69.95 . Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America...

...Duncan Faherty © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America . By Elisa Tamarkin. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xxxiii, 400 pp. $35.00. Reforming the World: Social Activism and the Problem of Fiction in Nineteenth...

..., and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776–1898. By Elizabeth D. Samet. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 273 pp. $55.00. The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America.By David Kazanjian. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2003. xii, 311 pp. Cloth...

...Patricia Kennedy Bostian © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 America the Middlebrow: Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars . By Jaime Harker. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2007. viii, 208 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $24.95. Driving...

... to reflect the transhistorical truths of psychoanalysis when contemporaneous sensory theories serve more aptly. But these insights have yet to be considered with both regard and opposition to the conventional genealogy of trauma’s conceptualization. In this history, 1860s America has been recognized...

...David J. Carlson Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories . By Yael Ben-zvi . Hanover, NH : Dartmouth Univ. Press . 2018 . xiii, 276 pp. Paper, $45.00 ; e-book available. Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine . By Steven Salaita...

... in North America. In this narrative, Native people are portrayed as the antithesis against which colonists forged their sense of modernity, and Sayre follows an interpretive path in which colonial representational and social contexts determine the book’s focus and analysis. There are certainly interesting...

... by Duke University Press 2021 On Sympathetic Grounds: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies in Nineteenth-Century North America . By Naomi Greyser . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2018 . xi, 258 pp. Cloth, $69.00 ; paper, $34.95 ; e-book available. Measuring the Harlem...

...Brad Rittenhouse [email protected] Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America . By Douglas A. Guerra Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2018 . 253 pp. Cloth, $69.95 ; e-book available. Respawn: Gamers...

...Allison S. Curseen Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights . By Bernstein Robin . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2011 . 318 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $24.00 . Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity...

...- ful role in constructing the meanings of environments and, in many cases, of determining their fates. Betsy Klimasmith, University of Massachusetts, Boston Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America...