... Gaspar, Duke University Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition. By Kim- berly Rae Connor. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2000. xi, 311 pp. $34.95. Kimberly Connor’s Imagining Grace unveils the far-reaching importance of theological aesthetics to the American...

... discovers a Puritan theory of grace that sought to come closer to God by escaping idolatrous thinking, on the one hand, and mechanistic cognition, on the other. Reconceiving Hooker’s preparation as a memorial style and placing that ars memoria at the center of transatlantic Puritan controversies about grace...

...Srikanth Reddy Duke University Press 2005 Srikanth ‘‘To Explain Grace Requires a Curious Hand Reddy Marianne Moore’s Interdisciplinary Digressions For, what tho’ his Head be empty, provided his Common- place-Book befull...

...Daniel Grace Abstract This essay examines Frederick Douglass’s oratory of the 1840s, when religious appeals drove his abolitionist rhetoric. In addressing the lack of critical attention paid to his early oratory and evangelism, the essay argues that these speeches, which he delivered to audiences...

... and enacted forms of display that aspired as much to grace and intimacy as vulgarity and intimidation. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 David M. Consuming George Thompson Stewart George Thompson was a fat man. In his 1854 memoir, My Life: Or the Adventures of...

...Mary Grace Albanese Abstract The transnational material network of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) has enjoyed substantial critical analysis: however, most scholarship tends to focus on the novel’s influence in Europe. Haiti plays a much greater role in the novel than any European...

...Jenna Grace Sciuto Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature . By Lowe John Wharton . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2016 . xvii, 443 pp. Cloth , $95.00 ; paper, $39.95 ; e-book, $29.99 . Finding Purple America: The South and the Future of...

...-Lughod, published a much-discussed essay, “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others,” in which she suggests using “a more egalitarian language of alliances, coalitions, and solidarity, instead of salvation” ( 2002 , 789). Daniel Grace’s essay...

... Aesthetic of Black Women’s Pain in Black Nationalist Literature” (88:3, 477–507). Honorable mentions were awarded to Mary Grace Albanese for her essay “Uncle Tom across the Sea (and Back): Pierre Faubert and the Haitian Response to Harriet Beecher Stowe” (88:4, 755–82) and to James Dawes for “The Novel of...

...Daniel Chaskes Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction . By Konstantinou Lee . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2016 . xiii, 368 pp. Cloth , $39.95 ; e-book available. Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference . By Hong Grace Kyungwon . Minneapolis...

... hyperscape to describe the poetic hyperscape she finds in the poetry. Smith consequently invents and borrows critical neologisms hyper- grace ‘‘personalized hyperpolitics ‘‘surbols ‘‘artistic cross-dressing...

... 2008 General Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination . By Nancy M. Grace. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. ix, 261 pp. $69.95. Brief Mention Editions Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times. By Walt Whitman. Ed. Christopher Castiglia and Glenn Hendler. Durham, N.C...

... new buildingat the Trinity site and Grace Church, a luxurious church at Broadway and Tenth Street that was to be patronized by wealthy parishioners. Trinity had, moreover, extended long-term leases at below-market...

... populations, in ways that palimpsestically register older modalities of racialized death but also exceed them” (Grace Kyungwon Hong and Roderick A. Ferguson, eds., introduction to Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization, Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press [2011], 1–2). How...

... populations, in ways that palimpsestically register older modalities of racialized death but also exceed them” (Grace Kyungwon Hong and Roderick A. Ferguson, eds., introduction to Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press [2011], 1–2). How...

..., Rodríguez’s book ventures where Fuller’s will not: behind the enemy lines of canonical American literature. Fuller balances literary biography and Civil War history with such grace that his book reads like an elegy for the American renaissance writers who saw their world change with the start of...

...- mental aesthetic pleasure. ‘‘Experiencing the variety of meanings available in a work of art she writes with characteristic grace, ‘‘helps make us toler- ant and mentally lithe. Art is a realm of thought experiments that quicken...

... both narrative and thematic content, moving from more insular tales of the white nuclear family to later epics of Southern and Western culture. Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination. By Nancy M. Grace. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. ix, 261 pp. $69.95. Grace surveys Kerouac’s poetry...

... and thematic content, moving from more insular tales of the white nuclear family to later epics of Southern and Western culture. Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination. By Nancy M. Grace. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. ix, 261 pp. $69.95. Grace surveys Kerouac’s poetry and prose to...

... of the white nuclear family to later epics of Southern and Western culture. Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination. By Nancy M. Grace. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. ix, 261 pp. $69.95. Grace surveys Kerouac’s poetry and prose to consider the role of spiritual enlightenment in his...