...Barbara Ryan By Thomas Hallock. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2003. xix,289 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95. By Rick Van Noy. Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press. 2003. xxii, 220 pp. Cloth,$44.95; paper, $21.95. 2005 200 American Literature constative statement but can be...

... provide detailed his- tory, genealogy (a favorite term of hers), and taxonomy, and a very few useful analyses. Peter Hays, University of California, Davis From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749–1826. By Thomas Hallock. Chapel...

... likely draw a readership significantly different from Fallen Tree, as if to indicate how extensively green criticism is developing. Those fascinated by Hallock’s ‘‘deep historical context’’ (6) may find Van Noy’s arguments thin; I had questions, too, about his selection of subjects, and the relationship...

... Halleck.ByJohnW.M. Hallock. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 2000. ix, 226 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. Despite Fitz-Greene Halleck’s immense popularity and respected position as a...

...,” medical arguments about adolescent femininity, Native American culture and Anglo-American journalism, and the preparation of women as “race leaders.” Social Class in the Writings of Mary Hallock Foote. By Christine Hill Smith. Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press. 2009. xvi, 213 pp. $34.95. As a...