...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, for...

...Cara Fabre Reconstituting Americans: Liberal Multiculturalism and Identity Difference in Post-1960s Literature . By Obourn Megan . New York : Palgrave MacMillan . 2011 . vii , 229 pp. $85.00 . identity complex: Making the Case for Multiplicity . By Hames-García Michael...

... people of Afri- can descent in the Americas. David Barry 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...

...Allen Hibbard © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature . By Paul Giles. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Univ. Press. 2006. xii, 419 pp. $115.00. Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform . By...

...Laura Henigman Missionary Positions: Evangelicalism and Empire in American Fiction . By Tricomi Albert H. . Gainesville : Univ. Press of Florida . 2011 . xii, 263 pp. $74.95 . Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century US Literature and...

...Jonathan Levin Pragmatic Modernism . By Schoenbach Lisi . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2012 . xv , 197 pp. $45.00 . Pragmatist Politics: Making the Case for Liberal Democracy . By McGowan John . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2012 . xxxii , 231 pp...

...R. John Williams Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia . By Wegner Phillip E. . New York : Peter Lang . 2014 . xix , 308 pp. Paper, $55.95 ; e-book, $55.95 . The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood...

...Augusta Rohrbach Augusta Rohrbach 2002 Augusta ‘‘Truth Stronger and Stranger Than Fiction Rohrbach Reexamining William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator In the words of James Russell Lowell, fellow aboli- tionist, William Lloyd Garrison ‘‘knew how types were set...

...Stephen Knadler Duke University Press 2006 Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861 . By John Ernest. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. xiv, 426 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $24.95. The Contemporary African...

... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Arthur Riss. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2006. viii, 238 pp. $80.00. Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860 . By Maurice S. Lee...

...Jodi Melamed “The Killing Joke of Sympathy” reconstructs the centrality of the “race novel” for the consolidation of racial liberalism as an official and limited state of antiracism in the United States after World War II. In particular, it considers the evidentiary and emotional values ascribed to...

..., rather, as a site where the individual and collective may interact in mutually constitutive ways. This approach allows Brown to reestablish a claim for the philosophical importance of Locke, not merely as an exponent of liberal indi- vidualism but as the provider of a mechanism for working out the...

... Americas. David Barry 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...

...William J. Maxwell Liberalism and the Culture of Security: The Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric of Reform . By Henry Katherine . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2011 . xiv , 213 pp. Cloth , $36.50 ; e-book , $36.50 . Downwardly Mobile: The Changing Fortunes of American...

...Matt Bell Duke University Press 2007 Matt Black Ground, Gay Figure: Bell Working through Another Country, Black Power, and Gay Liberation In an essay that addresses James Baldwin’s recur- rent attention to the intricate...

...Jonathan Vincent Vincent considers the way U.S. literature of the 1920s and 1930s used the rhetorical occasion of World War I to promote revisions of U.S. liberalism and its prevailing ideologies of citizenship. Urged on by desires for a more cohesive polity, Vincent argues, numerous war novelists...

...Christopher Trigg Abstract This article reconsiders the legacy of American Puritanism in the context of the current controversy around “radical Islam.” The rise of Salafi jihadism has emboldened those who maintain that Islam is incompatible with Western secularity. Liberal responses to this claim...

... love songs to racially liberal Paris to William Gardner Smith's shrewd attack on French colonialism, the trope of interracial romance undergirds both the construction and the questioning of a colorblind Paris. I argue that as African American expatriate writers included North African characters and...

... male preachers—both proslavery and antislavery—and how liberally it puts sermons into the mouths of numerous “lowly” characters, strategies by which Stowe transfers the power to preach from the ordained clergy to ordinary people who speak their convictions across the lines of gender, class, and race...

... poetics of everyday life, and a related move away from hierarchical models of teaching and learning to a more collective, activist pedagogy, inspired by movements for women’s liberation, anti-imperialism, and black liberation and self-determination. The literary pedagogy that emerges from these classrooms...