...- textualizes these fine case studies with the sort of historical summaries that one might encounter in high school history books. Of Native Americans, for example, we learn that w]hen the advent of the white settlers began to affect their lifestyles, the American Indians devised numerous strategies to cope...

...Andy Doolen © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic. By Eran Shalev. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2009. xiii, 311 pp. $45.00. The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural...

... accessible the material effects of the American military-industrial-media-entertainment network on historical consciousness. Braid adopts the affordances of game form to develop a formally experimental analytic of processing—one that is aesthetic, affective, and interactively experiential as opposed...

...Michael A. Elliott The proliferation of historical commemoration in the United States has led to the willful, overt manipulation of historical facts through imaginative fantasy. This essay argues that a strong literary tradition can help us understand this mode of historical fantasy. The essay...

... Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850–1950 . By Amanda J. Zink , Albuquerque : Univ. of New Mexico Press . 2018 . xiii, 339 pp. Cloth, $75.00 ; e-book, $75.00 . Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance...

... be considered historical. Although their respective technical approaches have since been replaced with newer, better, and more efficient ones, when looking back through the lens of critical AI studies they mark the beginning of a type of theoretical reflection within computer science that distinctly links...

... of allotment. Against the norms enforced by that policy, in peyote meetings the alteration of sentience could unbind the day-to-day reproduction of property-bearing personhood. Lines of collective transport opening from the passage of ecstasy thus composed a historical moment in refusal of allotment drives...

... on a bridge over the Seine. In a series of questions and answers, the new friends learn that they share experiences of being kitchen cooks (Truong 2003 , 86), vagabonds who have worked “everywhere” (89), and Vietnamese exiles who know the map of Paris by heart (93–94)—details that follow historical accounts...

...Aaron Kashtan Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics . By Kate Polak . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2017 . xiii, 238 pp. Cloth, $134.95 ; paper, $29.95 ; e-book, $19.95 . Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page . By Blair Davis...

...Joseph J. Letter Letter investigates the impact of the present in early historical fictions and how that present is manifested in the elaborate allegorical structures of the first popular novels to emerge after the War of 1812. Specifically, the figure of the suffering Revolutionary soldier...

...Paul Giles Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies . By Underwood Ted . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2013 . viii , 199 pp. $35.00 . Where Is American Literature? By Levander Caroline F. . Malden, MA : Wiley...

... period through early modernism, Catherine Ross Nickerson ex- pands our knowledge of the historical progression of detective fiction and pro- vides invaluable insights into the ways that progression intersected with con- temporaneous gender and class concerns. The received wisdom has had...

... and Russell focus on very different archives in drawing their conclusions about this dialec- tic of the foreign and the familiar, which accounts perhaps for their divergent approaches to the culture of travel: one emphasizes historical context while the other relies upon a theoretical model of inquiry...

.... By Lisa Walker. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2001. xvii, 279 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $18.50. Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall. By Christopher...

... that Melville's turn to poetry originates not in a politico-aesthetic reversal or withdrawal—as some critics have argued—but rather in a revised understanding of historical change. In his experience of the Civil War, Melville comes to perceive history as an agent of destructive repetition. This altered historical...