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...Arlene R. Keizer Duke University Press 2000 Arlene R. The Geographyof the Apocalypse: Keizer Incest, Mythology, and the Fall of Washington Cityin Carolivia Herron’s...

...Hillary Chute 9/11 and the Literature of Terror . By Randall Martin . Edinburgh, UK : Edinburgh Univ. Press . 2011 . 174 pp. $100.00 . After the Fall: American Literature since 9/11 . By Gray Richard . Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell . 2001 . x, 224 pp. $34.95...

...Ed White The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture . By Gardner Jared . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2012 . xiv , 205 pp. $50.00 . The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin . By Anderson Douglas . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2012 . xiv...

...Jeanne Elders DeWaard Duke University Press 2002 Jeanne ‘‘Indelicate Exposure Sentiment and Law in Elders Fall River: An Authentic Narrative DeWaard In one of the many pamphlets published in the nine- teenth century about the infamous ‘‘haystack murder...

... or ‘‘festivals as she calls them, may register both the mechanisms by which ideas are diffused through culture and possible subversive processes as well. One strength of Crain’s book is its willingness to treat primers as complex texts amenable to sensitive close readings. ‘‘In Adam’s fall we sinned all...

...Jean Marie Lutes Sentimental Readers: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of a Disparaged Rhetoric . By Halpern Faye . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2013 . xxii , 215 pp. $45.00 . Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism: Narrative Appropriation in American Literature . By Williamson...

...Sean Metzger A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific . By Hua Hsu . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2016 . 276 pp. Cloth, $29.95 . Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network . By Richard Jean So . New...

... works, merits greater attention as a counternationalist meditation on the origins of U.S. culture. Because it was written before the political events of the early 1850s and Melville's falling-out with the New York literary establishment, Redburn focuses our attention on a different context...

...Christopher Newfield The United States has long been seen as the world's leader in higher education, but in fact its academic outcomes have been stagnating or falling for years. Newfield shows that the current funding model for higher education is not the solution to this educational crisis but its...

..., Wells pushed mere counting past itself to a profound mode of ethical accounting. Two of her contemporaries, Mark Twain and W. E. B. Du Bois, sustained a similarly supraquantitative thrust; each attempted to harness the antilynching potential of numbers by enlisting data visualization. Twain falls short...

... that traumatic events produce formal changes in narrative strategies that reflect transformations in historical and political thinking, but many 9/11 novels, like Don DeLillo's Falling Man , do not demonstrate significant formal departures from pre-9/11 works. Others, like Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud...

... they had ended to discern other, related patterns of protest and repression in the slavery crisis of the 1850s, in the Civil War, and in the rise and fall of Radical Reconstruction. His reflections on these rebellions thereby shuttle between times and locations, weaving together disparate places and events...

... arrangement of Baldwin’s characters’ lives, so that small details of the present—a pair of ear- rings, the resemblance of one character’s eyes to those of another, a fear of falling—ever implicate the past. While psychoanalysis uses such terms to account clinically for the affective vicissitudes...

... her sexual fall.9 Perhaps because urban gothic writers thereby were constructing an implied narrative of origin for the industrial city, this master narrative was obsessively reiterated and reimagined in the urban gothic...

... Margaret . 2010 . “ Literary Studies on the Terraqueous Globe .” PMLA 125 ( May ): 657 – 62 . Culler Jonathan . 2000 . “ Desert Island Texts ,” Genre 33 ( Fall/Winter ): 247 – 56 . Curiel Barbara Brinson . 2000 . Introduction to Post-Nationalist American Studies...

... language necessarily falls short of the truth. He is aware that all signs are disconnected from their objects, and that language always says something other than it intends—something less and also something more—or in other words that all language is parabolic. In this sense, it is those liars...

... but rather the disorders he saw as emanating from that particular revival. The book also occasionally falls into the trap of the American and New En- glish exceptionalism it strives so hard to avoid. It credits Thomas Prince’s...

... to New York with a British lieutenant. Charlotte gives birth and dies after her seducer falls in love with and marries another woman. The Coquette, also remarkable for its sales figures, fictionalized the widely publicized courtship dilemmas, seduction, and lonely death of Elizabeth Whit- man...

... can, however temporarily, transcend history-bound preju- dices within the carefully delineated parameters of style. It further alleges that by approaching the work of art with empathic sensitivity, the reader or viewer can resist falling into prejudicial thinking and, in the process, enlarge...

... that these examples hold for the study of poetry. ■ ■ ■ In “The Poet and His Public,” which ran in Partisan Review in the fall of 1946, Jarrell examines Bishop’s first collection, North & South, alongside books by Josephine Miles, Adam Drinan, Robert Graves, Denis Devlin, and William...