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...Ann Keniston Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture . By Keyser Catherine . New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2010 . xii, 225 pp. $39.95 . Pink Pirates: Contemporary American Women Writers and Copyright . By Irr Caren . Iowa City...

...David Tomkins Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early America . By Lukasik Christopher J. . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2011 . viii, 319 pp. $45.00 . Reading the “Century Illustrated” Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870...

...Ed White The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture . By Gardner Jared . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2012 . xiv , 205 pp. $50.00 . The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin . By Anderson Douglas . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2012 . xiv...

...-1880 . By Candy Gunther Brown. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. xiv, 336 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95; Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America . By Patricia Okker. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2004. xii, 202 pp. $37.50. Book Reviews...

...Bill Solomon On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines . By Donal Harris . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2016 . viii, 275 pp. Cloth, $60.00 ; paper, $28.00 ; e-book, $27.99 . Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print . By Bartholomew Brinkman...

...Amardeep Singh Americanizing Britain: The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire . By Abravanel Genevieve . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2012 . 206 pp. $65.00 . Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism . By White Eric B...

.... $49.95. It would appear that Poe was well positioned as an editor and reviewer on several literary magazines in Richmond, Philadelphia, and New York to be af- Book Reviews 637 fected by and, in turn, affect American print culture during its...

.... For those who have decided to travel to Kerouac territory, Jones’s study will make an excellent guidebook. John Whalen-Bridge, National University of Singapore Creating the Modern Man: American Magazines...

... of what readers might find in them. They originally appeared in Pall Mall Gazette, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Catho- lic World, Springfield Republican, New York Tribune, Louisville Courier Jour- nal, Churchman, San Francisco Chronicle, and numerous other magazines and newspapers. A useful, comprehensive...

...Jordan S. Carroll Through an examination of some of the science-fiction stories published in Playboy magazine from 1953 to 1973, this essay shows that futuristic narratives were integral to the magazine’s editorial sensibility, which suggested that intimate life should be governed by the cool...

...Susan Edmunds Abstract This essay argues that Essence magazine provides a crucial intertext for understanding Toni Morrison’s engagement in Tar Baby with the political debates that surrounded the “Black Is Beautiful” slogan in the black power era and her use of the Tar Baby story to dramatize...

... past, present, and future issues of the magazine and, therefore, evoke a temporality that exceeds the critical capacities of close reading. To address how editors, readers, and authors responded to each other over time, I combine close reading with topic modeling, a method of computational text...

...Figure 5 Cover, Sturm’s Statehood Magazine , October 1905 ...

...Emily Hainze Abstract This essay explores the 1907–11 Child-Rescue Campaign run by the Delineator , a fashion magazine for women edited by Theodore Dreiser. I argue that the campaign mobilized social science to reconceptualize maternity as based in affective expertise rather than biological...

...Figure 1 Cover of the May 1902 Colored American Magazine , in which the first installment of Winona appears. Courtesy of the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University Archives, Howard University, Washington, DC ...

.... While Ellison’s story featured a gay man named Benny among the protagonists, the game developers adapted Benny without his original sexual identity. In a 2012 Game Informer magazine article, however, the developers reflected on their version of Benny as a “lost opportunity” for exploring gay identity...

... Blackness in the critical genealogy of modern neurodiversity, which has largely been associated with recent movements to recognize people with autism or ADHD and has focused on the middle-class white child. Through an examination of Pauline Hopkins’s essay series for the Colored American Magazine , “Famous...

...Ira Dworkin Abstract This article argues that Nicholas Said’s “A Native of Bornoo” exposes the limits of literary and political inclusion in the Atlantic Monthly , where it was published in 1867, and in the larger cultural milieu the magazine represents. Said arrived in the United States in 1860...