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...Edwin J. Barton By John Evangelist Walsh. New York: St. Martin's. 2000. xii, 199 pp. Paper,$14.95. 2001 418 American Literature Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe. By John Evangelist...

... given’’ (114). George William Curtis, who read the manuscript for Putnam’s, anticipated the view of many formalist critics: ‘‘It is a great pity [Melville] did not work it up as a connected tale for the ‘‘dreary documents...

..., is surrender. I think you have to do everything you can to make the world accommodate dignified and flourishing life, rather than giving up early, before the fight has been lost or won, and acclimating yourself to a dreary future brought into being by others less concerned about climate pain. The fight...

... and dreary than ever; they were building brick houses between me and the sunsetL, 102). While the city’s ‘‘brick houses’’ serve to separate Child from the beauty and restora- tive power of nature, the ‘‘piles of stone and rubbish’’ lining the city streets draw her gaze earthward, momentarily entrapping...

... suggest that turning thirty itself is a kind of death. Broke and bereft after laboring as a seamstress, Christie looks in the mirror and thinks, “Yes, I am grow- ing old; my youth is nearly over, and at thirty I shall be a faded, dreary woman, like so many I see and pity” (Alcott, 1994, 119...

... reveals how the noise that seemingly permeates every aspect of postmodern existence stands as a dreary symptom of the “unavailability of a position fully outside the domi- nant discourse and socioeconomic structures of our age” (193). As my summary suggests, The Noises of American Literature...

... the dreary years I passed in bondage,” one of those ways might be “the physical pain that the act of writing occasions,” for she suffered, as she wrote, from rheumatism, a uterine tumor, and congested lungs (Libow 2022 : 342). Thus the catharsis and relief promised to the sympathetic reader are absent when...

... with the Furmans, he observes, “so completely was I weaned from the inter­ ests and affections of my brethren that a mere threat of being sent away among the Indians into the dreary woods had a much better effect in making me obedient to the commands of my superiors than any corpo­ ral punishment.” He adds...

... reveals how the noise that seemingly permeates every aspect of postmodern existence stands as a dreary symptom of the “unavailability of a position fully outside the domi- nant discourse and socioeconomic structures of our age” (193). As my summary suggests, The Noises of American Literature...

... reveals how the noise that seemingly permeates every aspect of postmodern existence stands as a dreary symptom of the “unavailability of a position fully outside the domi- nant discourse and socioeconomic structures of our age” (193). As my summary suggests, The Noises of American Literature...

... reveals how the noise that seemingly permeates every aspect of postmodern existence stands as a dreary symptom of the “unavailability of a position fully outside the domi- nant discourse and socioeconomic structures of our age” (193). As my summary suggests, The Noises of American Literature...

... reveals how the noise that seemingly permeates every aspect of postmodern existence stands as a dreary symptom of the “unavailability of a position fully outside the domi- nant discourse and socioeconomic structures of our age” (193). As my summary suggests, The Noises of American Literature...

... reveals how the noise that seemingly permeates every aspect of postmodern existence stands as a dreary symptom of the “unavailability of a position fully outside the domi- nant discourse and socioeconomic structures of our age” (193). As my summary suggests, The Noises of American Literature...

... reveals how the noise that seemingly permeates every aspect of postmodern existence stands as a dreary symptom of the “unavailability of a position fully outside the domi- nant discourse and socioeconomic structures of our age” (193). As my summary suggests, The Noises of American Literature...

... reveals how the noise that seemingly permeates every aspect of postmodern existence stands as a dreary symptom of the “unavailability of a position fully outside the domi- nant discourse and socioeconomic structures of our age” (193). As my summary suggests, The Noises of American Literature...

... reveals how the noise that seemingly permeates every aspect of postmodern existence stands as a dreary symptom of the “unavailability of a position fully outside the domi- nant discourse and socioeconomic structures of our age” (193). As my summary suggests, The Noises of American Literature...

... devotion’’ in his sketch ‘‘Rural Funerals’’ contrasts tellingly with his description in the sketch ‘‘Westminster Abbey’’ of ‘‘the sad dreariness in this magnificencetheseemblemsoflivingandaspiringam- bition 24 This disparity...

... the dreary years I passed in bondage. I would gladly forget them if I could. Yet the retrospection is not altogether without solace; for with those gloomy recollections come tender memories of my good old grandmother, like light, fleecy clouds floating over a dark and troubled sea” (259). Jacobs here...

... human feelings deep; Thy tears will moisten freedom’s flower And nourish it in trying hour.19 Another begins: Bitter and sad is the strain I sing, Andmyheartisfilledwithsorrow, For what can the dismal future bring But a dark and dreary morrow. Five of the bravest ever born Have...

... the narrative flexibility of the Töpfferian picture story toward a searing critique of gender and class relations in the United States. In this surprising sequence, we trace the progress of a steel hoop from a 484  American Literature dreary factory floor to a cozy middle-class parlor to a young...