...Jennie Lightweis-Goff Two hundred years after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out to limn the boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase, demonstrating its seamlessness with the national body in direct travel to the West Coast, a different kind of travel narrative—one that demonstrated New...

...Michael Tavel Clarke © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Down in the Dumps: Place, Modernity, American Depression . By Jani Scandura. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2008. xix, 321 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. Black Fascisms: African American Literature and Culture...

...John Hellmann By Suzanne Clark. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 251 pp. $34.95. 2001 430 American Literature group. However, since Lape addresses the West as a region and privileges...

...Stephen Knadler By Keith Clark. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2002. x, 164 pp.$34.95. By Dickson D. Bruce Jr. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2001. xv,374 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.50. 2003...

..., University of California, Los Angeles Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West. By Suzanne Clark. 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 204 of 232 Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 251 pp. $34.95...

... writes that the work is “a large novel, my magnum opus . . . called, ‘Answered Prayers’; and if all goes well, I think it will answer mine” (Clarke 2004 , 257–58). Over twenty-five years later, in August 1984, when a friend inquired about his progress on the still-unfinished manuscript, Capote...

... Charles Clark’s survey of American journalism. As with Hall’s and Amory’s contributions, Green’s and Clark’s close—one might say, loving—attention to the multifarious details of the colonial ‘‘print business’’ exemplifies some of Tseng...

... studies of Sandoz and Le Guin, Clark fails to take up the more compelling challenge of how the Cold War consensus of the 1950s gave way to the creative eruptions of the 1960s; certainly she puts a misleading em...

... . By Rosen David and Santesso Aaron . New Haven : Yale Univ. Press . 2014 . xii , 357 pp. $50.00 . Neocybernetics and Narrative . By Clarke Bruce . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2014 . 248 pp. Cloth, $75.00 ; paper, $25.00 . © 2015 by Duke University...

... in the 1930s, influencing heavily the theory and method behind Gunnar Myrdal’s An Ameri- can Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) and Culture, Race, and Identity in TheBluestEye 147 Kenneth Clark’s work on racial preferences among school children in the...

...– 1934. Ed. William Bedford Clark. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2000. xxi, 274 pp. $39.95. William Bedford Clark’s edition gathers together letters from the period of Robert Penn Warren’s ‘‘long...

... potential insights for contemporary critical race theory. American Literary Minimalism. By Robert C. Clark. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2014. 196 pp. Cloth, $49.95; e-book, $49.95. Assessing American literary minimalism as a stylistic movement “scattered among eleven decades,” this work...

... community of artists. Peters further examines Nie- decker’s friendship with Louis Zukofsky, arguing that this friendship, while productive, nevertheless situated Niedecker as a pupil rather than as a peer. The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry. By Keith Clark. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press...

..., Politics, and the Question of Engagement. By Clark Davis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2005. x, 188 pp. $48.00. Davis’s volume on Hawthorne and the question of ethics seeks to serve as an example of ethical criticism. Critical of recent historicist work on American literature that, he says...

... scholars as M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! (2008). A Canadian born in Tobago, Philip is, as Siemerling demonstrates, one standout figure in a generation of black Canadian writers, including George Elliot Clarke, Lawrence Hill, and many others, who have shaped the way literary critics conceptualize slavery’s...

... Dickinson. By W. Clark Gilpin. University Park: Pennsyl- vania State Univ. Press. 2014. x, 200 pp. $34.95. Scholars have long noted the tension between Dickinson’s refusal to commit herself to an organized religion and the great extent to which her poetry deploys religious language and themes. This...

... Frederick Douglass, who facilitate understanding by “link[ing] phrases together.” Kay’s intertextual analysis extends to sermons, correspon- dences, and other aspects of the Bible, theological writings, and literature. War Stories: Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North. By Frances M. Clarke...

... Marketplace: Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . Clarke Arthur C. / Playboy Collection, 1960–1969. Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University Libraries . Clarke Bruce . 2008 . Posthuman...

... Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America . By Deborah Clarke. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2007. xii, 226 pp. Cloth, $49.00; paper, $25.00. Book Reviews Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer. By Michael A. Elliott...

..., Le Guin, and Butler as well-known­ and well-­studied as Don DeLillo, Donald Barthelme, Burroughs, and Pynchon. Instead, that year the award went to Arthur C. Clarke for Rendezvous with Rama, and SF slipped, he contended, from the “brink of respectability” back to the wrong...