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...Peter L. Hays Ed. Albert J. Devlin and Nancy M. Tischler. New York: New Directions. 2000. xxv, 581 pp. $37.00. 2001 Reviews Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787–1845.By Jared Gardner. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 1998. xvii, 238 pp. Cloth...

...Peter Hays By David Savran. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2003. xii, 234 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.95. By Shannon Jackson. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xi, 254 pp. Cloth, $55; paper, $24.00. 2005 198 American Literature Especially admirable...

...Lindsay Thomas Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature . By John Hay . Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2017 . ix, 238 pp. Cloth, $105.00 ; e-book available. The Poetics of Insecurity . By Johannes Voelz . Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press...

... deserts his platoon to become who he truly feels himself to be, “Geronimo,” an invincible Apache warrior/protector of nature and wildlife; and Hai, a fourteen-year-old boy whose love of his water buffalo is what leads Conchola to name him “Buffalo boy.” For most of the novel, Conchola, like the military...

..., Volume 77, Number 2, June 2005. Copyright © 2005 by Duke University Press. 320 American Literature labor and criminal history that began on the evening of 4 May 1886. A bomb exploded that night at a labor rally held near Chicago’s Hay- market Square, turning a peaceable demonstration for labor...

..., Haiti is the tempo- ral vanguard: “African American desires for a future are mirrored in a Hai- tian past” (95). Darkening Mirrors concludes by considering the well-known Hollywood film Stormy Weather (1943), which offers a calming, unequivocally 838  American Literature nationalist salve...

... an influence on her academic prose, sensitizing her to musical echoes beyond the range of most literary critics, New Musicological and otherwise. She makes fresh hay, for example, from The Awakening ’s (1899) “participation in [the] American Wagnerian moment,” scrutinizing the novel’s pre-Eliotic allusion...

... 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...

... on the same street, including abrothel.28 One scholar, Samuel Hay, has published a dramatic inter- pretation of this closure. He sees the National Advocate as gunning for the African Theater because it perceived in it a rival playhouse.29 The National Advocate, as it happens, was edited by the playwright...

... hay flower I thought—It had a brittle black stem and corolla of yellowish dirty spikes like Jesus’ inchlong crown, and a soiled dry center cotton tuft likeausedshavingbrush that’s been lying under the garage for a year. Yellow,yellowflower,and flower...

... pieces develop in dialogue with other writers, texts, or theories. Understand- ing how Eliot’s relationships with others (including Ezra Pound, John Hay- ward, and Vivienne Eliot) shaped and are revealed in his texts, Badenhausen argues, helps us understand the art of collaboration and ‘‘humaniz[es...

... in 1874, when dozens of unemployed workers were injured by New York City police officers, and the Chicago Hay- market Square bombing of 1886 that resulted in eight fatalities. This period of extreme class turmoil witnessed not only a multitude of labor rebellions but also the displacement...

...) and with an analysis of gothic literature by white and African American writers. His speculations on the possible Muslim influence on the Hai- tian revolution and on Nat Turner’s uprising become the basis for a nightmarish conception of a gothic Southern landscape in which the Southerners fear that ‘‘the South had...

...’ is always another name for another impurity’’ (67). Similarly, Garber makes hay with the notoriously flimsy and historically volatile distinc- tion between amateur and professional, preferring instead to speak...

... and congressional committee rooms. Beyond Washington politics, the hero of future Secretary of State John Hay’s The Bread-Winners ( 1883 ) suffers the great injustices of small-town politics—which include the affronts of library positions received through patronage and the snub of a self-serving butcher–turned...

... successful edition of Taylor’s Poetical Works , for an edition of the writings of Clarence King, an otherwise minor literary associate of Henry Adams. Johnson summarily abandoned the project when he received a letter from Tyler Dennett (author of the 1934 Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of John Hay...

... Tsai Hai Wai (Lin Yutang Abroad) (Tianjin, China: Bai Hua Wei Yi, 1992), 101. 22 Lin Yutang, Memoirs of an Octogenarian (Taipei, Taiwan: Mei Ya, 1975), 31. 23 See Mark Borthwick, Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2007...

... is   not the stalwart swan that can ferry the woodcutter’s two children home; no. Make hay; keep the shop; I have one sheep, were a less 350  American Literature limber animal’s mottoes. (Moore 2008, 84) Or, in Franklin’s words, “It is good to make Hay while the Sun shines” (1758, table of contents...