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... demonstrates in her richly detailed philosophical study on poetic language, the vitality of new forms and new ways of expressing ourselves. Gary Kerley, Brenau Academy 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 215 of 232 Coyote Kills John Wayne...

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... connection, that is, by affiliating with (choosing to act like or resemble) a church or state father—an act of representation ultimately embodied in Puri- tan conversion, which John Cotton terms a ‘‘better birth’’ because it refiliates...

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...Wendy W. Walters This essay juxtaposes two readings of J. M. W. Turner's 1840 painting, Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On : one by British art historian John Ruskin and the other by contemporary Jamaican novelist Michelle Cliff. To examine the racial and national...

.... Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2007. xii, 226 pp. Cloth, $49.00; paper, $25.00. Jaime Harker introduces Christopher Morley’s 1918 The Haunted Bookshop as an example of the strong cultural belief that books are capable of radically transforming their readers. By 1918, the difference...

...Ursula K. Heise © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 The World in Which We Occur: John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and American Ecological Writing in the Twentieth Century . By Neil W. Browne. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. xiv, 224 pp. $38.50. Women Writing Nature...

...-century theories of John Cleves Symmes, who believed the earth was hollow and accessible through openings at the poles. In discussing an early-nineteenth-century hollow-earth theorist and his influence on hollow-earth fictions—beginning with the narrative Symzonia (1820)—the essay considers the unexplored...

...Paul Gilmore In this essay, Gilmore argues that examining the largely forgotten early romances of John Neal within a transatlantic framework leads to a reconsideration of our understanding of romanticism in the United States. Focusing on Randolph (1823) and Logan (1822), he draws parallels between...

...Eric Solomon Duke University Press 2006 John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War . By Franny Nudelman. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. x, 226 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. The War Complex: World War in Our Time. By Marianna...

...Evan Carton Duke University Press 2002 Evan Crossing Harpers Ferry: Liberal Education and Carton John Brown’s Corpus On the afternoon of his capture at Harpers Ferry, John Brown lay on a bloody pallet in the arsenal paymaster’s office and conducted...

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...Michael Ziser Under the influence of Calvinist and radical abolitionist John Brown, Ralph Waldo Emerson reconsidered the value of political activism rooted in absolutist and sectarian religious beliefs. Retreating from the earlier declarations of secular and democratic individualism for which he...