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Ritual, Myth, and Mysticism in the Work of Mary Butts: Between Feminism and Modernism

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Charlotte H. Beck
American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 207–208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-1-207
Published: 01 March 2001
...Charlotte H. Beck By Roslyn Reso Foy. Fayetteville: Univ. of Arkansas Press. 2000. xvii, 163 pp. $34.00. 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, $55.00; paper...
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Writing the Radical Center: William Carlos Williams, John Dewey, and American Cultural Politics; Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry between the World Wars

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Joseph Kronick
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 196–198.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-196
Published: 01 March 2003
...Joseph Kronick By John Beck. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2001. xii, 202 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $19.95. By Michael Thurston. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2001. viii, 272 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. 2003 196 American...
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Toxins, Drugs, and Global Systems: Risk and Narrative in the Contemporary Novel

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Ursula K. Heise
American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 747–778.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-4-747
Published: 01 December 2002
... the portrayal of life in what German sociologist Ulrich Beck calls the ‘‘risk society’’ of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.8 From the beginning, Jack Gladney’s experience of risk is inter- twined with his self-perception as a member of the middle class. In the novel’s first scene...
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Faulkner on the Color Line: The Later Novels; Natural Aristocracy: History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner; The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History

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John Lowe
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 179–182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-179
Published: 01 March 2004
...John Lowe By Teresa M. Towner. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2000. 179 pp.$35.00. By Kevin Railey. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 1999. ix, 213 pp.$29.95. By Charlotte H. Beck. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2001. xii,303 pp. $49.95. 2004 Book Reviews...
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The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction; Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony

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Rebecca Wanzo
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 177–179.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-177
Published: 01 March 2004
.... The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History. By Charlotte H. Beck. Baton Rouge: Louisi- ana State Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 303 pp. $49.95. Watching the South is a social and academic sport that seems to reinvent itself every other day. At the moment, Southern studies conferences and collections have refigured...
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Recovering the New: Transatlantic Roots of Modernism; Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity; The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks

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Norman Finkelstein
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 182–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-182
Published: 01 March 2004
.... 2000. 179 pp. $35.00. Natural Aristocracy: History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner.By Kevin Railey. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 1999. ix, 213 pp. $29.95. The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History. By Charlotte H. Beck. Baton Rouge: Louisi- ana State Univ. Press. 2001...
View articletitled, Recovering the New: Transatlantic Roots of Modernism; Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity; The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks View PDF for article titled, Recovering the New: Transatlantic Roots of Modernism; Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity; The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks
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Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature; The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness

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Tim Engles
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 185–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-185
Published: 01 March 2004
.... The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History. By Charlotte H. Beck. Baton Rouge: Louisi- ana State Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 303 pp. $49.95. Watching the South is a social and academic sport that seems to reinvent itself every other day. At the moment, Southern studies conferences and collections have refigured...
View articletitled, Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature; The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness View PDF for article titled, Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature; The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness
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Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space; Gang Nation: Delinquent Citizens in Puerto Rican, Chicano, and Chicana Narratives

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Rafael Pérez-Torres
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 187–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-187
Published: 01 March 2004
.... The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History. By Charlotte H. Beck. Baton Rouge: Louisi- ana State Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 303 pp. $49.95. Watching the South is a social and academic sport that seems to reinvent itself every other day. At the moment, Southern studies conferences and collections have refigured...
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National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage; Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America

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Mark Chiang
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 189–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-189
Published: 01 March 2004
..., and the Production of William Faulkner.By Kevin Railey. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 1999. ix, 213 pp. $29.95. The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History. By Charlotte H. Beck. Baton Rouge: Louisi- ana State Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 303 pp. $49.95. Watching the South is a social and academic sport...
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Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties; Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box; South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature

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Stephen P. Knadler
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 191–194.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-191
Published: 01 March 2004
.... The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History. By Charlotte H. Beck. Baton Rouge: Louisi- ana State Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 303 pp. $49.95. Watching the South is a social and academic sport that seems to reinvent itself every other day. At the moment, Southern studies conferences and collections have refigured...
View articletitled, Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties; Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box; South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature View PDF for article titled, Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties; Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box; South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature
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Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women's Travel Writing; Mothering the Race: Women's Narratives of Reproduction, 1890-1930

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Kevin Meehan
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 194–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-194
Published: 01 March 2004
.... The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History. By Charlotte H. Beck. Baton Rouge: Louisi- ana State Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 303 pp. $49.95. Watching the South is a social and academic sport that seems to reinvent itself every other day. At the moment, Southern studies conferences and collections have refigured...
View articletitled, Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women's Travel Writing; Mothering the Race: Women's Narratives of Reproduction, 1890-1930 View PDF for article titled, Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women's Travel Writing; Mothering the Race: Women's Narratives of Reproduction, 1890-1930
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Contemporary American Crime Fiction; Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction; The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir

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Christopher P. Wilson
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 196–199.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-196
Published: 01 March 2004
.... The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History. By Charlotte H. Beck. Baton Rouge: Louisi- ana State Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 303 pp. $49.95. Watching the South is a social and academic sport that seems to reinvent itself every other day. At the moment, Southern studies conferences and collections have refigured...
View articletitled, Contemporary American Crime Fiction; Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction; The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir View PDF for article titled, Contemporary American Crime Fiction; Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction; The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir
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Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry; Abandoned New England: Landscape in the Works of Homer, Frost, Hopper, Wyeth,and Bishop

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Piotr Gwiazda
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 199–201.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-1-199
Published: 01 March 2004
.... The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History. By Charlotte H. Beck. Baton Rouge: Louisi- ana State Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 303 pp. $49.95. Watching the South is a social and academic sport that seems to reinvent itself every other day. At the moment, Southern studies conferences and collections have refigured...
View articletitled, Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry; Abandoned New England: Landscape in the Works of Homer, Frost, Hopper, Wyeth,and Bishop View PDF for article titled, Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry; Abandoned New England: Landscape in the Works of Homer, Frost, Hopper, Wyeth,and Bishop
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Elizabeth Bishop's World War II-Cold War View; Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction; Revising Flannery O'Connor: Southern Literary Culture and the Problem of Female Authorship

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Catherine Cucinella
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 193–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-193
Published: 01 March 2003
... Cultural Politics. By John Beck. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2001. xii, 202 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $19.95. Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry between the World Wars.By Michael...
View articletitled, Elizabeth Bishop's World War II-Cold War View; Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction; Revising Flannery O'Connor: Southern Literary Culture and the Problem of Female Authorship View PDF for article titled, Elizabeth Bishop's World War II-Cold War View; Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction; Revising Flannery O'Connor: Southern Literary Culture and the Problem of Female Authorship
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Heroism and Comics Form: Feminist and Queer Speculations

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Shelley Streeby
American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 449–459.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4564382
Published: 01 June 2018
... tells us, “starts with a kid and his books” (3)—namely an editor and writer for Fawcett Publications, Bill Parker, who as a boy read about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and later invented Captain Marvel. But Cremins focuses especially on cartoonist and critic C. C. Beck and writer Otto...
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Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963; Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature

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Stephanie LeMenager
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 456–458.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266162
Published: 01 June 2011
...Stephanie LeMenager Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963 . By Kevin Starr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 564 pp. $34.95. Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature . By John Beck. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. 366 pp...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 437–444.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-79-2-437
Published: 01 June 2007
..., and works of nonfiction. The volume also examines the two collections Shadow and Act and Going to the Territory. An extensive chronology is included. Robert Penn Warren: Critic. By Charlotte H. Beck. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press. 2006. x, 192 pp. $38.00. Beck’s study focuses on Robert Penn...
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In the Process of Poetry: The New York School and the Avant-Garde; Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity

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Jeanne Heuving
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 198–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-198
Published: 01 March 2003
.... Nevertheless, they diverge in their answers to the question of what poetry makes happen. If Thurston views poetry as an instrument of social change, so did his subjects. Beck criticizes the liberalism of his...
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Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible; Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction; Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible

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Claudia Stokes
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 443–445.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266117
Published: 01 June 2011
.... $34.95. Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature. By John Beck. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. 366 pp. $55.00. It is a difficult time to write about American abundance, which is to say that the topic is timely. The eighth volume of Kevin...
View articletitled, Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible; Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction; Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible View PDF for article titled, Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible; Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction; Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible
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Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism; American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman; Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy

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Marianne Noble
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 446–448.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266126
Published: 01 June 2011
.... $34.95. Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature. By John Beck. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. 366 pp. $55.00. It is a difficult time to write about American abundance, which is to say that the topic is timely. The eighth volume of Kevin...
View articletitled, Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism; American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman; Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy View PDF for article titled, Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism; American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman; Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy