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Henry James's Thwarted Love

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Nina Baym
American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 639–640.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-3-639
Published: 01 September 2000
...Nina Baym By Wendy Graham. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 289 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $19.95. 2000 Book Reviews 6141 AL 72:3 / sheet 169 of 237 Institutional Individualism: Conversion, Exile...
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Ruthless Democracy: A Multicultural Interpretation of the American Renaissance

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Nina Baym
American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 192–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-1-192
Published: 01 March 2001
...Nina Baym By Timothy B. Powell. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2000. vi, 227 pp. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $15.95. 2001 Book Reviews Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America. By Robert Blair St. George. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2000. xii, 417 pp. Cloth...
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Beautiful Work: A Meditation on Pain; Dreaming by the Book

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Nina Baym
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 441–443.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-2-441
Published: 01 June 2002
...Nina Baym By Sharon Cameron. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. vi, 121 pp.$18.95. By Elaine Scarry. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2001. 292 pp. Cloth, $26.00; paper, $16.95. 2002 Reviews Colonial Transformations: The Cultural Production of the New Atlantic World...
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Emerson's Transcendental Etudes; The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe

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Nina Baym
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 414–416.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-2-414
Published: 01 June 2005
...Nina Baym By Stanley Cavell. Ed. David Justin Hodge. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 277 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper,$21.95. By Scott Peeples. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House. 2004. xii, 199 pp. Cloth,$70.00; paper, $55.00. 2005 Book Reviews White People Do Not Know...
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American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences: Styles of Affiliation

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Bernice L. Hausman
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 181–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-181
Published: 01 March 2003
...Bernice L. Hausman By Nina Baym. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2002. x, 265 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $22.00. 2003 Book Reviews 181 Messmer does us a great...
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Sympathy in American Literature: American Sentiments from Jefferson to the Jameses; A Vice for Voices: Reading Emily Dickinson's Correspondence

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Peter Coviello
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 179–181.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-179
Published: 01 March 2003
.... By Nina Baym. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2002. x, 265 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $22.00. In her latest work, Nina Baym turns her prodigious interpretive talents to nineteenth-century women’s...
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Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture American Guides: The Federal Writers’ Project and the Casting of American Culture

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Joel Pfister
American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 397–400.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8267900
Published: 01 June 2020
... Thought [1927–30]), Robert Spiller ( Literary History of the United States [1948, 1953, 1963]), and Nina Baym ( The Norton Anthology of American Literature [1979 through 2007]). Only Baym’s canon-busting Norton anthology is “diverse” by the guides’ standards. The FWP’s bureaucracy-based “state mold...
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Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 / Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the Twentieth Century Southwest

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Amy T. Hamilton
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 442–444.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587665
Published: 01 June 2012
...Amy T. Hamilton Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 . By Baym Nina . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2011 . 371 pp. $40.00 . Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the Twentieth Century Southwest . By Goodman Audrey . Tucson : Univ. of Arizona Press...
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An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach / American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James / Love’s Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination / Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels

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Arthur Riss
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 437–440.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587647
Published: 01 June 2012
... Writers of the American West, 1833–1927. By Nina Baym. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2011. 371 pp. $40.00. Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the Twentieth Century Southwest. By Audrey Goodman. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2010. x, 241 pp. $50.00. When “Western American literature...
View articletitled, An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach / American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James / Love’s Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination / Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels View PDF for article titled, An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach / American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James / Love’s Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination / Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels
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The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature / Environmental Evasion: The Literary, Critical, and Cultural Politics of “Nature’s Nation.”

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Nicole M. Merola
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 440–442.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587656
Published: 01 June 2012
... Writers of the American West, 1833–1927. By Nina Baym. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2011. 371 pp. $40.00. Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the Twentieth Century Southwest. By Audrey Goodman. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2010. x, 241 pp. $50.00. When “Western American literature...
View articletitled, The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature / Environmental Evasion: The Literary, Critical, and Cultural Politics of “Nature’s Nation.” View PDF for article titled, The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature / Environmental Evasion: The Literary, Critical, and Cultural Politics of “Nature’s Nation.”
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In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post–Civil Rights Era / Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post–Civil Rights American Literature

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Amy Abugo Ongiri
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 445–447.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587674
Published: 01 June 2012
... Writers of the American West, 1833–1927. By Nina Baym. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2011. 371 pp. $40.00. Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the Twentieth Century Southwest. By Audrey Goodman. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2010. x, 241 pp. $50.00. When “Western American literature...
View articletitled, In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post–Civil Rights Era / Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post–Civil Rights American Literature View PDF for article titled, In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post–Civil Rights Era / Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post–Civil Rights American Literature
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Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature / How to Be South Asian in America: Narratives of Ambivalence and Belonging / Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave

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Jeehyun Lim
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 447–449.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587683
Published: 01 June 2012
... not to conflate indirection and evasion, which are not always the same thing. Nicole M. Merola, Rhode Island School of Design DOI 10.1215/00029831-1587656 Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927. By Nina Baym. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2011. 371 pp. $40.00. Lost Homelands: Ruin...
View articletitled, Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature / How to Be South Asian in America: Narratives of Ambivalence and Belonging / Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave View PDF for article titled, Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature / How to Be South Asian in America: Narratives of Ambivalence and Belonging / Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave
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Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination / Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body

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Suzanne Schneider
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 450–452.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587692
Published: 01 June 2012
... DOI 10.1215/00029831-1587656 Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927. By Nina Baym. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2011. 371 pp. $40.00. Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the Twentieth Century Southwest. By Audrey Goodman. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2010. x, 241 pp...
View articletitled, Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination / Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body View PDF for article titled, Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination / Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
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Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature / Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging

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Karen Dubinsky
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 452–454.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587701
Published: 01 June 2012
... historians. However, in the literary studies con- text, one must be careful not to conflate indirection and evasion, which are not always the same thing. Nicole M. Merola, Rhode Island School of Design DOI 10.1215/00029831-1587656 Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927. By Nina Baym...
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The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels / Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature / The South That Wasn’t There: Postsouthern Memory and History

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Timothy Parrish
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 454–456.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587710
Published: 01 June 2012
... not to conflate indirection and evasion, which are not always the same thing. Nicole M. Merola, Rhode Island School of Design DOI 10.1215/00029831-1587656 Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927. By Nina Baym. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2011. 371 pp. $40.00. Lost Homelands: Ruin...
View articletitled, The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels / Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature / The South That Wasn’t There: Postsouthern Memory and History View PDF for article titled, The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels / Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature / The South That Wasn’t There: Postsouthern Memory and History
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Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature / When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty

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Audra Simpson
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 457–459.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587719
Published: 01 June 2012
... Writers of the American West, 1833–1927. By Nina Baym. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2011. 371 pp. $40.00. Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the Twentieth Century Southwest. By Audrey Goodman. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2010. x, 241 pp. $50.00. When “Western American literature...
View articletitled, Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature / When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty View PDF for article titled, Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature / When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty
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Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative / Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno

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John Morán González
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 459–461.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587728
Published: 01 June 2012
... Writers of the American West, 1833–1927. By Nina Baym. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2011. 371 pp. $40.00. Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the Twentieth Century Southwest. By Audrey Goodman. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2010. x, 241 pp. $50.00. When “Western American literature...
View articletitled, Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative / Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno View PDF for article titled, Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative / Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno
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A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx / Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in US Women’s Life Writing

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Jean Marie Lutes
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 461–463.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587737
Published: 01 June 2012
... Writers of the American West, 1833–1927. By Nina Baym. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2011. 371 pp. $40.00. Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the Twentieth Century Southwest. By Audrey Goodman. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2010. x, 241 pp. $50.00. When “Western American literature...
View articletitled, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx / Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in US Women’s Life Writing View PDF for article titled, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx / Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in US Women’s Life Writing
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The American Essay in the American Century / Reading as Therapy: What Contemporary Fiction Does for Middle-Class Americans

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Nancy McCabe
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 463–465.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587746
Published: 01 June 2012
... historians. However, in the literary studies con- text, one must be careful not to conflate indirection and evasion, which are not always the same thing. Nicole M. Merola, Rhode Island School of Design DOI 10.1215/00029831-1587656 Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927. By Nina Baym...
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Family Embraces: The Unholy Kiss and Authorial Relations in The Wide, Wide World

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Jana L. Argersinger
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 251–285.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-2-251
Published: 01 June 2002
... In the latter half of the twentieth century, scholars interested in re- claiming undervalued episodes in the history of women’s experience began to look at Warner’s text with different eyes. Nina Baym and Jane Tompkins, to cite two influential examples, argue that compelling por- traits of female selfhood can...
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