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... and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman . By Les Harrison. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. xxv, 272 pp. $42.50. From Broadway to Cleveland: A History of the Hanna Theatre . By John Vacha. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2007. xi...

...Philip Gould © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship . By Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2008. viii, 239 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95. Prodigal Daughters: Susanna...

...Barbara Hochman Abstract When Nella Larsen’s story “Sanctuary” appeared in the Forum in 1930, readers noted its similarity to “Mrs. Adis,” a tale by the popular British writer Sheila Kaye-Smith. Scholars concur that “Sanctuary” turns a story about British class-consciousness into a story of African...

..., and reception reveal the challenges of creating art that is aimed at social reform and confirm the difficulty in assessing the political function or, in Fredric Jameson's sense, the political unconscious of American literature. As a celebrated example of political theater, The Exonerated also provides a forum...

... 2007 Announcement Call for Papers: Short James Forum Praised—and mocked—for his drawn-out sentences and lengthy works, Henry James nonetheless began his career with short forms of writing to which he returned throughout his life. Some of these works, such as “The Turn of the Screw...

... ourselves in strangely similar times. As a viral pandemic and an epidemic of racial violence collide, we, too, face undeniably world-changing events, rife with uncertainty. How are we to read this moment? Both of this forum’s editors have in the past identified and sought new ways of narrating, thinking...

... Percy More ( 2021 ), Henry Paget ( 1997 ; 2000 ), Reiland Rababka ( 2011 ; 2015 ), and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting ( 1997 ; 2002 ), among others shape the essays in this forum and point us toward submerged traditions of existential thought in Black cultural modernity. First among these thinkers...

..., collaborations, and beginnings. 1 See Hughes 1994 ; Rusert 2015 ; Fuentes 2016 ; Shklar 1991 ; Hildebrandt et al. 2019 . 2 For a sampling of related scholarship published in the last ten years, see: “Contested Citizenship: Legacies of American Slavery,” an online forum (hosted by Black...

..., and Rosedales of Mrs. Wharton’s story the debate became so heated that it hijacked the Times readers’ forum for nearly three months.30 Writers initially took sides based on whether they believed the smart set of Wharton’s novel accurately mirrored contem- poraneous New York society, particularly after...

... instances in the past half-century when gaming and hacking culture have spilled over into the mainstream. While the games and events discussed likely won’t be new to anyone with an interest in tech, Milburn’s focus on folk history, citing reactions and analyses from anonymous forum users as often as from...

...), as well as multiple dedicated academic conferences such as the CSS conference and the International Comic Arts Forum, and journals such as ImageTexT and the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics . Publishers such as the university presses of Rutgers, Ohio State, and Mississippi have launched dedicated...

... 48 , no. 4 : 625 – 57 . ———. 2009 . “Narrative Networks: Bleak House and the Affordances of Form.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 42 , no. 3 : 517 – 23 . doi: 10.1215/0029 5132–2009–050 . ———. 2015 . Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network . Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press...

... in a recent J19 forum on American drama (“Introduction: ‘Nineteenth-Century’ ‘American’ ‘Theater’ and ‘Performance’” J19 6.2 [2018]: 391]. If you are drawing a blank, you are not alone. You may pause before reciting a few dramatic adaptations of novels or standby plays in anthologies (George Aiken’s...

...- alogical account culminates with a fitting coda: an analysis of present-day attempts to revive the freak show as an alternative art form and, in some cases, a forum for radical political critique. Like...

... close readings demonstrate (those of Marrant and Occom are particularly compelling), a forum in which “aesthetic forms articulated, evaluated, and circulated notions of transformable race throughout early America” (4). To be sure, Transformable Race is organized as a literary history...

... critical forum that privileged the values of community debate over the authority of a single critical perspective, his own included. In choosing the two canonical, if not hypercanonical, texts of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Frederick Douglass’ Paper , my intention is not to suggest that either is fully...

... Carpenter. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2007. x, 368 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $28.95. The Temple and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Haw- thorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman. By Les Harrison. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Ala- bama Press. 2007. xxv, 272 pp. $42.50...

... of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States. Ed. Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2007. x, 368 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $28.95. The Temple and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Haw- thorne, Melville...

... Carpenter. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2007. x, 368 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $28.95. The Temple and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Haw- thorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman. By Les Harrison. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Ala- bama Press. 2007. xxv, 272 pp. $42.50...

... Carpenter. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2007. x, 368 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $28.95. The Temple and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Haw- thorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman. By Les Harrison. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Ala- bama Press. 2007. xxv, 272 pp. $42.50...