...Paula Rabinowitz © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Working Women, Literary Ladies: The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration . By Sylvia Jenkins Cook. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Univ. Press. 2008. 292 pp. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $24.95. Grotesque Relations: Modernist...

...Anne Charles © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice . By Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2006. x, 196 pp. Paper, $29.95. Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias . By Dunja...

... poetry, for example, that depicts Ireland not as a readily sub- missive female but as a weeping one. While Irish and English works might present contrasting figures of Ireland, each is a relatively direct and unambigu- ous ideological construction. Brown’s and Crain’s books stay on the Ameri- can side...

...Sharon M. Harris Duke University Press 2002 Sharon M. ‘‘A New Era in Female History Harris Ninteenth-Century U.S. Women Writers The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature. By Marianne Noble. Prince- ton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2000. 240 pp. Cloth, $57.50...

...Naomi Z. Sofer Duke University Press 2003 Naomi Z. ‘‘Carry[ing] a Yankee Girl to Glory Sofer Redefining Female Authorship in the Postbellum United States 6815...

..., 210 pp. $45.00. Revising Flannery O’Connor: Southern Literary Culture and the Problem of Female Authorship. By Katherine Hemple Prown. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia. 2001. iii, 201 pp. $35.00...

..., and Helen Hunt Jackson) to demonstrate that Dickinson’s originality is not apart from but connected to her use of conventional female modes; adapting, expanding, complicating, contradicting, criticizing, even transforming them...

...Fritz Fleischmann Catherine A. Brekus. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 1998. x,466 pp. Cloth $49.95; paper, $17.95. 2001 Reviews 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 187 of 232 Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740–1845...

...Joanna Brooks © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England . By Teresa A. Toulouse. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. 225 pp. $49.95. Intricate Relations: Sexual...

... Press. 2008. viii, 125 pp. $20.00. The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture . By Lauren Berlant. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2008. xiv, 353 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. Book Reviews Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating...

...Sari Edelstein Duke University Press 2007 Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880-1930 . By Jean Marie Lutes. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2006. vii, 232 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95. The Female Investigator in Literature, Film...

... gaps unexplained, but individual close readings of particular texts and episodes are often terrific, further advancing the way we understand the function and force of religion in early American studies. Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism . By Traister Bryce . Columbus...

... intercorporeity (85). Freder- ick Douglass attempts a cross-racial textual communion in his Narrative, while Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World produces instances of fusion with others through female subjugation on the written page. These sometimes 400  American Literature speculative but nonetheless...

...Emily J. Lordi The Black Female Body in Literature and Art: Performing Identity . By Brown Caroline A. . New York : Routledge . 2012 . xvi , 289 pp. Cloth , $128.00 ; paper , $44.95 . Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women’s Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text...

...Jean-Thomas Tremblay Ugly Differences: Queer Female Sexuality in the Underground . By Yetta Howard . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2018 . ix, 193 pp. Cloth, $99.00 ; paper, $28.00 ; e-book, $19.95 . Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State . By Stephen...

...Julieann Veronica Ulin Over the course of the debate concerning Wright's depiction of black women, critics have ignored the manuscript and extensive body of research to which Wright immediately turned after Native Son , a project Wright explicitly identified as female-centered and for which his...

...Meghan M. Wadle Abstract This essay contextualizes Herman Melville’s “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” alongside antebellum portrayals of the female wage earner. Melville’s decision to measure the costs of economic change by sexualizing female wage earners typifies antebellum...

... of the drowned kitten, Barnes shows how sentimental culture’s alternative “economy of feeling” colludes with, rather than opposes, a market economy chiefly concerned with reducing populations. The essay’s primary example is the female bildungsroman, where anxieties over female biological reproduction...

... an intricate network of relationships to white women. Because Wheatley crafted elegiac and occasional poems for her white female auditors in exchange for their support, these women exerted a disproportionate influence over the shape of her published Poems (1773). Their participation in this transactional...