...Joshua Logan Wall The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics . By Jeanne Heuving . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2016 . xv, 240 pp. Paper, $34.95 ; e-book available. The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature . By Naomi...

...Jean M. Lutes © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Love and Marriage in Early African America . Ed. Frances Smith Foster. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press. 2008. xxvi, 329 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.95. Reading Marriage in the American Romance: Remembering Love as Destiny...

...Holly Jackson This essay aims to restore the vital intellectual and political movement of free love to the study of American literature and culture, offering a brief overview of its major currents and analyzing three examples from a neglected archive of free-love novels, Mary Gove Nichols's Mary...

... Jennifer A. . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2014 . 232 pp. Cloth , $80.00 ; paper , $26.95 ; web PDF , $26.95 . The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories . By Weisser Susan Ostrov . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2013 . xiii , 235 pp. Cloth , $80.00...

...Jeannine Marie DeLombard Duke University Press 2007 The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence . By Susan M. Ryan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 237 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.95. Love, Wages, Slavery: The Literature of...

... America. By David Anthony. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2009. xii, 225 pp. $43.95. Manly Love: Romantic Friendship in American Fiction. By Axel Nissen. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2009. x, 229 pp. $45.00. Book Reviews Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African...

...Alan Nadel Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” . By Foley Barbara . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2010 . xi, 386 pp. Cloth , $99.95 ; paper , $29.95 . A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in...

...Stephanie A. Smith © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870 . By Karen Woods Weierman. x, 214 pp. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2005. $34.95. Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and...

... dialogue between these voices in two early storiesThe Muse’s Tragedy’’ (1899) and ‘‘The Dilettante’’ (1904)—and in Wharton’s love letters to Morton Fullerton. Chapter 4 focuses on two more stories, ‘‘April Showers’’ (1900) and ‘‘Expiation’’ (1904), as critiques of sen- timental excess in Fast and Loose...

... has remained loyal to his n’er-do-well childhood friend (aptly named Crouch) because Tom “lives the Christian edict to love one’s neighbors as oneself.” Larson claims that Mrs. Adis protects the culprit out of Christian charity, even after learning Crouch has killed her son. This reading gains support...

...Shirley Samuels The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion . By Stokes Claudia . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2014 . 281 pp. Cloth , $59.95 ; e-book, $59.95 . Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum...

... 2000.8.30 14:28 OCV:0 Book Reviews 633 of us came to love: Dickinson with the long dashes strutting arrogantly across the page. By 1981, however, when R. W...

...Juliana Spahr By Nina Miller. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. ix, 292 pp. Paper,$19.95. 2000 Book Reviews 879 Making Love Modern: The Intimate Public Worlds of New...

... no shortage, however, of alternative places to go on that issue. Allan Langdale, University of California, Santa Cruz Real Love: In Pursuit of Cultural Justice. By Andrew Ross. New York: New York Univ...

...Susan Scheckel Duke University Press 2002 Susan Home on the Train: Race and Mobility in Scheckel The Life and Adventures of Nat Love [I]t would be terrible not to be able to suppose that you are as yet but an instalment, a current number...

...Dona Yarbrough Duke University Press 2003 Dona A Queer Form of Trauma: Yarbrough Lesbian Epistolarity in Either Is Love 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 125 of 246 The destruction of records and memorabilia and...

...Norman W. Jones Duke University Press 2004 Norman W. Coming Out through History’s Hidden Love Jones Letters in Absalom, Absalom! At a Faulkner conference not long ago, a scholar posed the question, ‘‘Why Absalom, Absalom!? Why do we keep return- ing to it...

... Knutson Andrea . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . ix, 200 pp. $65.00 . Love’s Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination . By Barnes Elizabeth . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2011 . vii, 211 pp. $49.95 . Revolutionary Deists...

...Heather Love © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature . By Mitchell Breitwieser. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2007. ix, 322 pp. $60.00. Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth...

..., constitute a radical love that requires a radical language, so radical, in fact, that silence is often portrayed as the most rebellious of all forms of communication. In her readings of the two texts, then, Dill analyzes how silence in aberrant scenes of romance articulates an unspoken and unspeakable...