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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 391–393.
Published: 01 June 2004
.... 2004 Book Reviews Emerson’s Life in Science: The Culture of Truth. By Laura Dassow Walls. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2003. viii, 280 pp. $35.00. Understanding Emerson: ‘‘The American Scholar’’ and His Struggle for Self- Reliance. By Kenneth S. Sacks. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 610–612.
Published: 01 September 2004
... a comprehensive examination of the personal narratives of a variety of people of African descent. Crystal S. Anderson, Ohio University Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation. By Jay Grossman. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 273 pp. Cloth...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 617–619.
Published: 01 September 2004
... affinities affect the public self. Nevertheless, these studies provide a comprehensive examination of the personal narratives of a variety of people of African descent. Crystal S. Anderson, Ohio University Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 652–653.
Published: 01 September 2000
... the idea of any such cultural break. The ‘‘complicity’’ Robin Grey describes is a constellation of literary bor- 6141 AL 72:3 / sheet 173 of 237 rowing, renewing, and redirecting. In closely argued chapters on Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 201–202.
Published: 01 March 2001
..., Reading 1922 is a book well worth reading—though not, I would hope, one whose methodology finds many imi- tators. Marianna De Marco Torgovnick, Duke University The Poetics of Transition: Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modern- ism. By Jonathan Levin. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1999...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 635–636.
Published: 01 September 2001
... this philological passion, in various ways confronted the inadequacy of language to contain meaning, and thus they gave expression to ‘‘Romantic irony’’ (50). Even Emerson’s notion of ‘‘correspondence’’ posited fluid relationships among words, nature, and spirit. West is—to use a term valued by Emerson...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 882–883.
Published: 01 December 2001
... of the crucial debt owed by American romantic writers such as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Whitman to their English romantic fore- bears seems appropriate in this globalizing era that increasingly questions the validity of cultural categories based on nationhood. For Gravil, the prevail- ing academic boundary...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 190–192.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Raphael Allison Emancipating Pragmatism: Emerson, Jazz, and Experimental Writing. By Michael Magee. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. xii, 247 pp. Paper, $27.50. 2006 Book Reviews John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 841–844.
Published: 01 December 2014
.... $25.00 . Reconstructing Individualism: A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison . By Albrecht James M. . New York : Fordham Univ. Press . 2012 . xii , 376 pp. $60.00 . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Book Reviews...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 437–440.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Arthur Riss An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach . By Herzogenrath Bernd . Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press . 2010 . xii, 316 pp. Cloth , $85.00 ; paper , $39.95 . American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 630–631.
Published: 01 September 2000
... the idea of any such cultural break. The ‘‘complicity’’ Robin Grey describes is a constellation of literary bor- 6141 AL 72:3 / sheet 173 of 237 rowing, renewing, and redirecting. In closely argued chapters on Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 207–234.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Caleb Smith Duke University Press 2006 Caleb Emerson and Incarceration Smith Absolute solitude, the violent turning inward on the self, whose whole being consists in the mastery of material and in the monotonous rhythm of work...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 411–413.
Published: 01 June 2005
... Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Systems of Nature.By Andrew McMurry. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. xiii, 269 pp. $39.95. Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Move- ment. By Daniel J. Philippon. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2004. xv, 373 pp. $39.95...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 739–767.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Bonnie Carr O'Neill By definition, celebrities exist in public as an association of physical traits or projected values. Celebrity was problematic for Emerson in three areas. First, celebrity heightened Emerson's anxieties about his friendships and intimate relationships. Emerson's relative comfort...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 394–397.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Jason Stacy © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 American Transcendentalism: A History . By Philip F. Gura. New York: Hill and Wang. 2007. xv, 385 pp. Cloth; $27.50; paper, $15.00. Mediating American Autobiography: Photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 611–613.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Robert E. Abrams Experience and Experimental Writing: Literary Pragmatism from Emerson to the Jameses . By Grimstad Paul . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2013 . ix , 176 pp. Cloth, $69.00 ; e-book available. Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 47–83.
Published: 01 March 2001
...Jenine Abboushi Dallal Duke University Press 2001 Jenine American Imperialism UnManifest: Abboushi Emerson’s ‘‘Inquest’’ and Cultural Regeneration Dallal Mr. Calhoun: [T]he single question is, does the con- stitution extend...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 729–760.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Ian Finseth © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Ian Evolution, Cosmopolitanism, and Finseth Emerson’s Antislavery Politics His twenty-year struggle against slavery trans- formed Ralph Waldo Emerson, entailing a thoroughgoing reassess- ment...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 414–416.
Published: 01 June 2005
... history. John Ernest, University of New Hampshire Environmental Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Systems of Nature.By Andrew McMurry. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. xiii, 269 pp. $39.95. Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Move- ment. By Daniel J...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 193.
Published: 01 March 2008
... 2008 General Emerson's Nonlinear Nature . By Christopher J. Windolph. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2007. ix, 200 pp. $39.95. Brief Mention Editions Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times. By Walt Whitman. Ed. Christopher Castiglia and Glenn...