... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

..., a forum for radical political critique. Like Sideshow U.S.A., Reiss’s book approaches the freak show’s cultural politics from a somewhat marginal vantage point, examining the political meanings 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 of the United States, and most of its energies...

...” and his contribution to her 2007 MLA Presidential Forum—spotlights a canon of “dif- ficult poems” that overlaps Perloff’s in its opposition to Official Verse Culture but is identified less as an array of aesthetic strategies than a constellation of social events at play in classrooms...

... seats, and wear purple and fine linen every day, [are] truly represented by the Tren- ors, the Dorsets, 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...

... Studies.” Victorian Studies 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...

... Internet, and the stakes of doing teaching labor in open digital forums are even higher (Loza 2014 ). If the vernacular writing and commentary that women of color produce online is not only producing free content for social networks but is resulting in violence being aimed at their persons, then these...

... individuals invested in aesthetic experimentation or political radicalism. At the center of Anglo-American modernism, they functioned as social forums that spanned gender, race, and sexuality. This collection focuses on little magazines’ dia- logic nature, some of their individual editors, and their...

... Sokol Hoax: A Forum Lingua Franca 6 ( July 1996): 58–62. These essays, along with responses pub- lished in the NewYorkTimes,theNew York Review of Books, and the Times Literary Supplement, have been collected in The Sokol Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy, ed. the editors of...

..., reputation, and reception within US literature throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing from more popular and openly accessible public forums such as the reader review website Goodreads, Moran argues that much of O’Connor’s literary legacy is due not to the particularity of her stories...

... student in the Department of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He serves on the executive committee of the International Comics Art Forum and is the president of the Graduate Student Caucus of the Comics Studies Society. 1 Marvel did not employ a black woman as a comics...

... self-sustaining power, of what use is such display of self-consequence? (“Remarks,” FDP , April 1, 1853) Second, I argue that in his capacity as editor Douglass wielded the power of reprinted, generically hybrid criticism to create a polyvocal critical forum that privileged the values of...

... principles of conduct, especially toward those we hold dearest. Voyeurism, posturing, oppressively restricted definitions of womanhood, and racist appropriations kept the genre from becoming anything close to a dignified forum for rigorous ethical inquiry. Yet its ethical dimensions were not insignificant...

... 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...