...Michael Moon Ed. Hugh Amory and David D. Hall. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2000. xxiv, 638 pp. $125.00. 2000 Book Reviews 6218 American Literature 72:4 / sheet 177 of238 A History of the Book in America, Volume One: The Colonial Book in the Atlan...

...Jesse Zuba The proliferation of first book prizes for poetry reflects the increasingly professionalized academic culture in which poetry was published, written, and read during the 1950s and 1960s. This change threatened the validity of the poetic vocation by formalizing the career and thus opening...

...Daniel Punday Duke University Press 2005 Daniel John Barth’s Occasional Writing: Punday The Institutional Construction of Postmodernism in The Friday Book Unlike avant-garde writing in its classic formula- tion, postmodern fiction...

...Matthew G. Kirschenbaum 2005 The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revisioning and Editing for Book and Screen . By John Bryant. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2002. x, 198 pp. Cloth, $55.50; paper, $20.95; Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries . By Loss Pequeño Glazier. Tuscaloosa...

...Lisa Swanstrom From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts . By Peter L. Shillingsburg. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2006. v, 216 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $29.95. Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now . By Gary...

...Jared Hickman The Book of Mormon is perhaps best known in Americanist circles as a version of the Indians-as-Israelites theory. It features the racialized division of the progeny of the text’s founding diasporic Jewish figure, Lehi, into wicked “Lamanites,” who are cursed with “a skin of blackness...

...Avery Slater Reading Muriel Rukeyser’s 1938 long poem The Book of the Dead alongside Walter Benjamin’s theories of messianism and “profane illumination,” this essay explores how their work reconceives 1930s Marxist secular politics of redemption along postsecular lines. As a crisis in interwar...

... . By Sanders Joe Sutliff . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2011 . xi , 225 pp. $60.00 . Book Reviews The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination. By Mark Rifkin. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2012. viii, 337 pp. Spaces between Us: Queer...

... takeover of American publishers and the rise of Black studies programs, this article reconstructs a lost moment in both cultural history and business history. Starting with the story of The Black Book , a “scrapbook-history” of African American experience edited by Morrison and published by Random House...

...Carol Colatrella Thinking Outside the Book . By Rohrbach Augusta . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2014 . xiii , 161 pp. Cloth, $80.00 ; paper, $24.95 . Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound . By Emerson Lori . Minneapolis : Univ...

...Michael Moon The Portrait and the Book: Illustration and Literary Culture in Early America . By Megan Walsh . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2017 . viii, 259 pp. Paper, $65.00 ; e-book, $51.99 . Reading Lessons in Seeing: Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical...

...Hao Jun Tam Abstract Through a reading of Vietnamese American author Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt (2003) and Parisian writer-in-exile Duong Thu Huong’s The Zenith (2012), this essay examines the ways in which the two diasporic Vietnamese novels revise modern Vietnam’s founding father Ho Chi...

...Martin Paul Eve Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels . By Lee Clark Mitchell . New York : Bloomsbury Academic . 2017 . x, 262 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $26.96 ; e-book, $21.56 . Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing...

... . By Mark Conroy. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2004. viii, 232 pp. $42.95. Reading Oprah: How Oprah's Book Club Changed the Way America Reads .By Cecilia Konchar Farr. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2005. xiv, 164 pp. Cloth, $54.50; paper, $17.95. Book Reviews ‘‘A Hideous...

...Mark Rifkin Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663–1880 . By Round Phillip H. . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2010 . xii , 275 pp. $24.95 . Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America . By Snyder...

...Peter West © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England . By Matthew P. Brown. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. xiv, 265 pp. $65.00. Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American...

...Patrick Jagoda © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Reading Network Fiction . By David Ciccoricco. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. x, 244 pp. $39.95. This Book Contains Graphic Language: Comics as Literature . By Rocco Versaci. New York: Continuum. 2007. ix, 237 pp...

...Andrew Donnelly Abstract This article contrasts the reading pedagogy inspired by the “talking book” and the reading pedagogy described by Frederick Douglass. The talking book offers literacy as a thing to be acquired that can be traded for freedom. “Literacy as a gift” inculcates in students a view...