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... 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...

...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...

...,” it 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...

...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...

...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 Where the New World Is focuses primarily on novels by US-based authors— Hurston, Nella Larsen, John Oliver Killens, Russell Banks, and Cynthia Shearer—as well as Jamaican writer Erna Brodber. Connections with previously discussed writers are woven into this comprehensive...

...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...

... by familial descent and dissent but rather is open to alternative modes of kinship. Specifically, this late nineteenth-century strategy is carried forward by authors such as Anzia Yezierska and Grace Paley, who turn to the Yiddish theater’s proclaimed improvement of Shakespeare in their multilingual English...

... 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 Geo...

... “a more egalitarian language of alliances, coalitions, and solidarity, instead of salvation” ( 2002 , 789). Daniel Grace’s essay on the early oratory of Fredrick Douglass and its vehement criticism of Protestant Christianity for its refusal to reject slavery makes interventions similar to those...

... in constructingboth a 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...

... 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...

... and the Reverberating 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...

...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...

... on connections of love, joy, and spirit. 3 Each of these two seemingly disparate texts performs what I term an antinomian practice: they reject the very premise of secular law in favor of an abiding belief in a variation on free grace—in this case, maternal care. Antinomianism describes the idea...

... and unassailable resistance to solution In other words, she creates a critical hyperscape to describe the poetic hyperscape she finds in the poetry. Smith consequently invents and borrows critical neologisms hyper- grace...

... whose work has been recognized in recent years by scholars such as Ronna C. Johnson and Nancy M. Grace in their groundbreaking edited collection, Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2002), are largely ignored by Calonne. Likewise, while...

... beauty, grace, and sophistica- tion. Frances Trollope described them as “exquisitely beautiful, grace- ful, gentle, and amiable,”11 while Frederick Law Olmsted considered them superior to other American women: They are generally pretty, often handsome. I have rarely, if ever, met more...

... progeny of Adam’s bro- ken covenant with God, Man’s only chance for salvation lay in obe- dience to the terms of God’s contract with Abraham, the covenant of grace. Willard grimly reminded his audience that the covenant of grace could be an instrument of damnation as well as salvation...

..., 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 consider the role...