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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 196–199.
Published: 01 March 2004
... Book Reviews The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women’s Fiction. By Angelyn Mitchell. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2002. xiv, 170 pp. Cloth, $59.00; paper, $20.00. Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony. By Dwight...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 621–624.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Annette Trefzer © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction . By Martyn Bone. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2005. xvi, 275 pp. $49.95. Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 898–900.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Paul Grimstad The African American Experience in Crime Fiction: A Critical Study . By Crafton Robert E. . Jefferson, NC : McFarland . 2015 . 204 pp. Paper , $29.95 . The Arresting Eye: Race and the Anxiety of Detection . By Huh Jinny . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 835–838.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Claudia Stokes Duke University Press 2007 Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction . By David A. Zimmerman. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2006. xii, 294 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50. The March of Spare Time: The Problem and Promise of Leisure...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 223–225.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Kenneth M. Roemer © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction . By William H. Katerberg. Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas. 2008. ix, 281 pp. $45.00. Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women . By Jeffrey...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 634–637.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Kent A. Ono © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination . By Robert Markley. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. 456 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 148–149.
Published: 01 March 2002
... was relegating alchemy to 144 American Literature a pseudoscience, Samuel Danforth was offering a sample of his philosopher’s stone to a skeptical Benjamin Franklin. Ezra Stiles was more drawn toward the mutational promises of alchemy than he was willing to admit. The many allusions to alchemy in fictions...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 187–190.
Published: 01 March 2002
... to alchemy in fictions of Gothic romance have long been recognized, but Clack shows us that even a willful progressive like Emerson (who admired Kepler, Bacon, Newton, and Humboldt) could write, apropos of the soul’s search for empowering Beauty, that ‘‘Alchemy, which sought to transmute one element...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 421–423.
Published: 01 June 2002
... a consideration of how these texts defy the generic conventions of both fiction and travel literature. Yet some of the most compelling and provocative readings occur in the book’s coda, where Russell addresses the need to study postmodern travel writing by women. Her invocation of geographer Gillian Rose’s con...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 677–679.
Published: 01 September 2002
... has many winning moments and historical surprises. Sections on Whitman’s stints as a young teacher and his early experiments with fiction successfully show a Whitman far more like his peers than unlike them. Her sources reveal surprising images of a young man who didn’t like children (29) and who...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 680–682.
Published: 01 September 2002
... has many winning moments and historical surprises. Sections on Whitman’s stints as a young teacher and his early experiments with fiction successfully show a Whitman far more like his peers than unlike them. Her sources reveal surprising images of a young man who didn’t like children (29) and who...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2003
... that they may be disappointed if they make assessments based on appearance, whether of people or of books. Writing on the ‘‘color line’’ in his fiction, Ches- nutt himself, light-skinned enough to pass, dissembled, used indirection...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 193–196.
Published: 01 March 2003
... she examines, methodically and clearly unfolding her argument. Drawing on psychoanalytic, race, and feminist theories, she successfully balances the theory with the fiction itself, because she takes care to define her terms...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 433–435.
Published: 01 June 2003
.... Truth Stranger than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary Marketplace.By 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 191 of 246 Augusta Rohrbach. New York: Palgrave. 2002. xvi, 153 pp. $45.00. In their studies of white Americans who adopted ‘‘black’’ voices, John...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 438–439.
Published: 01 June 2003
... Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science. By Steven Meyer. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2001. xxiii, 450 pp. $55.00. Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 661–663.
Published: 01 September 2003
...: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West. By Sharon L. Jones. West- port, Conn.: Praeger. 2002. ix, 159 pp. $62.95. The study of all literatures depends...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 220–222.
Published: 01 March 2003
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 447–449.
Published: 01 June 2003
.... Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell Univ. Press; Cranbury, N.J.: Associated Univ. Presses. 2002. 223 pp. $42.50. Sublime Desire: History and Post–1960s Fiction. By Amy J. Elias. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2001...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 462–464.
Published: 01 June 2003
... Country: Ralph Ellison in America. By Horace Porter. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2001. 168 pp. $29.95. Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction: Living in Paradox. By A. Yemisi...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 177–179.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women’s Fiction. By Angelyn Mitchell. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2002. xiv, 170 pp. Cloth, $59.00; paper, $20.00. Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony. By Dwight A. McBride. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2002. xvi...