... essay demonstrates how tales used the developing forms of plot and dialogue to argue for biblical precepts by reading several shorter works as well as Helen Cross Knight’s 1846 tract tale Robert Dawson; or, The Brave Spirit . In closing, Howard considers the formal analogies between this work and the...

...Hildegard Hoeller Emotional Reinventions: Realist-Era Representations beyond Sympathy . By Melanie V. Dawson . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2015 . vi, 309 pp. Cloth, $85.00 ; paper, $39.95 ; e-book available. Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag...

...Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Duke University Press 2004 Rosemarie The Cultural Logic of Euthanasia: ‘‘Sad Garland- Fancyings’’ in Herman Melville’s ‘‘Bartleby’’ Thomson On 26 February 1998, Roosevelt Dawson, a twenty- one-year-old, African American college...

... Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2007. ix, 311 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $22.95. Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature. Ed. Wai Chee Dimock and Lawrence Buell. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2007. vi, 304 pp. Cloth...

...’’ are often trans- formed in other countries, repackaged, and sold back to America. William Dean Howells: A Writer’s Life. By Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2005. xxvi, 519 pp. $34.95. The first biographical study of Howells to be published in...

... war—for men and women alike—as a por- tal to existential enrichment and remuneration.22 Other novels and tracts depict soldiers’ deaths as splendid reenactments of Christ’s crucifixion. In Coningsby Dawson’s unctuousThe Glory of the Trenches (1917), soldiers are “soiled...

... with Marx- ism, psychoanalysis, and existentialism; and ending with twentieth-century movements. The last few chapters touch on eco-, black, and queer feminism. Anthologies The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader. Ed. Susan Harris Smith and Melanie Dawson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000...

... : 420 – 49 . Dawson P. M. S. 1980 . The Unacknowledged Legislator: Shelley and Politics . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . Earle Jonathan Halperin . 2004 . Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854 . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . Equal...

... enter into an artistic con- versation was attractive to Ellison. At Tuskegee he had been drilled for three years by William Dawson in the importance of technical ex- pertise in the arts, and he cherished the belief...

... Univ. Press . Davis Cathlin M. 2011 . “An Easy and Well-Ordered Way to Learn: Schooling at Home in Louisa May Alcott's Eight Cousins and Jack and Jill.” Children's Literature in Education: An International Quarterly 42 , no. 4 : 340 – 53 . Dawson Melanie . 2003 . “The...

...) 1893 . Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures . Boston : E. J. F. Eddy . Glazener Nancy . 1997 . Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Goodman Susan Dawson Carl . 2005 . William Dean Howells: A Writer's...

... The Cambridge Companion. Susan Harris Smith and Melanie Dawson’s meticulous cultural analysis of the end of the cen- tury, The American 1890s: A Cultural Reader, though not specifically an analysis of realism, presents a far more inclusive view of the field than the two collections purportedly...

...,” by Patricia Stuelke, 117–45. Religious Toleration. “Fragile Belief: Lydia Maria Child’s Hobomok and the Scene of American Secularity,” by Grant Shreve, 655–82. Robert Dawson; or, The Brave Spirit. “Tract Tales, Literary Aesthetics, and American Fiction,” by Kathleen Howard, 463–92...

... Pudd’nhead Wilson , Twain’s narrator espouses the importance of the cats on the window ledges of Dawson’s Landing: “A home without a cat—and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat—may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?” (Twain 1999, 1). The cat’s presence here, while presented...