...Sonya Posmentier The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism . By Moya Paula M. L. . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2016 . xiii, 206 pp. Cloth , $80.00 ; paper, $22.95 ; e-book available. Race and the Literary Encounter: Black Literature from...

... out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture.By Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2003. 422 pp. $44.95. Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary Region.By Audrey Goodman. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2002. xxix...

...Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination: Innocence by Association . By Gray Jonathan W. . Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2013 . ix , 164 pp. Cloth , $55.00 ; paper , $30.00 . Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party . By Szalay...

...Megan Sweeney 2005 Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice . By Michael Hames-García. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2004. lii, 352 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95; Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism, and Complicity in U.S. Literary Realism...

...Hildegard Hoeller A Man's Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism. By John Dudley. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. viii, 222 pp. $35.00. Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism. By Jennifer L. Fleissner. Chicago: Univ. of...

... romantics who emerged in the revolutionary era of 1789 established themselves as the touchstones of progressive literary sen- sibility and practice in the English-speaking world, Gravil argues that their ideals were not genuinely realized until Emerson and other figures of the American Renaissance...

...Richard Jean So So’s essay reconstructs a literary genealogy for the emergence of “information warfare” in the early Cold War period (the 1950s). Specifically, it argues that this form of warfare—which So dubs “literary information warfare”—took shape first and most keenly within the US state’s...

...Joshua Logan Wall The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History . By Schreier Benjamin . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2015 . x, 270 pp. Cloth , $89.00 ; paper, $25.00 ; e-book available. Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture...

...Tina Chen Abstract This article proposes ethical alienation as a critical pedagogical practice by analyzing the neoteric critical consolidation of Asian American literary and cultural studies, a consolidation marked by the recent (and near simultaneous) publication of four major compendiums— The...

...Seth Perlow Computing as Writing . By Punday Daniel . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2015 . xvi, 179 pp. Cloth , $94.50 ; paper, $27.00 ; e-book available. Metamedia: American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture after Digitization . By Starre Alexander . Iowa City...

...Carrie Hyde Episodic Poetics: Politics and Literary Form after the Constitution . By Garrett Matthew . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2014 . viii, 232 pp. $69.00 . Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790–1861 . By Roberts Siân Silyn...

.... of Virginia Press . 2014 . xii, 281 pp. Cloth , $29.50 ; paper, $29.50 ; e-book, $65.00 . The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s . By Washington Mary Helen . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2014 . xviii, 347 pp. Cloth , $35.00 ; paper...

.... —Francisco Arcellana, “Toward the Great Filipino Novel” ( 1952 ) When Wallace Stegner visited the Philippines in 1951, the local literary scene made such an impression on him that he would soon report, in the Saturday Review , that in spite of the presence of “an English heavily accented and difficult for...

...Kevin Modestino Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe . By Kennedy J. Gerald . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2016 . xiii, 457 pp. Cloth , $125.00 ; paper, $35.00 ; e-book available. Novel Nostalgias: The Aesthetics of Antagonism in Nineteenth...

... of the New Leader, an anti- Communist journal of politics. In this interview, which later became ‘‘The World and the Jug’’ (1964), Ellison offered a harsh estimate of Wright’s literary range: ‘‘How awful that Wright found...

...Benjamin Schreier Abstract This article takes the cliché of Jewish American literary breakthrough in the late 1950s as an opportunity to examine the perverse professional legibility of the Jewish American literary field: everyone knows about it, but few scholars outside the field take it seriously...

... The Columbiad (1807), William Prescott’s histories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru (1843 and 1847), Herman Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and ‘‘The En- cantadas and Walt Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo...

... The Columbiad (1807), William Prescott’s histories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru (1843 and 1847), Herman Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and ‘‘The En- cantadas and Walt Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo...