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...Dean Rader How Did Poetry Survive? The Making of Modern American Verse . By Newcomb John Timberman . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2012 . xi, 338 pp . $75.00 . Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry . By Marsh John...

... Wharton, and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism. By Sarah Way Sherman. Durham: Univ. of New Hampshire Press. 2013. xii, 316 pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $40.00; e-book, $39.99. Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and US Modernism. By Mary Chapman. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2014. xiv...

... is simply New England culture writ large. Like all of us, Egan needs certain boundaries for his study, and he chooses to make his points by lookingat just one discursive community, the highly literate and prolific New Englanders...

...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...

... is simply New England culture writ large. Like all of us, Egan needs certain boundaries for his study, and he chooses to make his points by lookingat just one discursive community, the highly literate and prolific New Englanders...

... warrants this fond, if not entirely successful, treatment of her work. Anne Charles, University of New Orleans Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman, and the Making of a Post- modern...

...- phia Museum examines painting, architecture, specimens, and catalog text to make clear how Peale’s ambitions as a collector resulted in an institution of popular science that reflected his own passion for collecting while bringing...

...Leonard Tennenhouse © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System . By Michelle Burnham. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press. 2007. viii, 222 pp. Paper, $30.00. Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making...

...Jennifer Gurley © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics . By Larry J. Reynolds. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2008. xix, 313 pp. $55.00. The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass...

...Gerry Canavan © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction . By John Rieder. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press. 2008. xii, 183 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $24.95. Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor...

...Kimberly Lamm © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing. By Daneen Wardrop. Durham: Univ. of New Hampshire Press; Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. 2009. xii, 246 pp. $30.00. Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion...

...David Wyatt © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Making the Detective Story American: Biggers, Van Dine, and Hammett and the Turning Point of the Genre, 1925–1930. By J. K. Van Dover. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2010. ix, 221 pp. Paper, $35.00. Darkly Perfect World: Colonial...

... Requiem’s Ruins: Morrison Unmaking and Making in Cold War Faulkner William Faulkner achieved literary celebrity in a post-WWII United States of unprecedented international clout and domestic affluence, but also one whose foremost metropolises were beset by crisis. As Robert...

...Jentery Sayers Sayers’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Making the Perfect Record.” This project unpacks the often ignored, pre-1940s history of magnetic recording, with particular attention to how—through an interweaving of print fiction, sound transduction, storage media...

.... $52.50. Three new books in colonial studies present new constellations of texts by breaking down conventional national and generic boundaries. Each in its own way attends to the mechanisms by which ideas and tropes are circulated, thus specifying and making material the traditional literary topics...

...Sianne Ngai Duke University Press 2002 Sianne ‘‘A Foul Lump Started Making Promises in My Ngai Voice Race, Affect, and the Animated Subject an-i-mate vt :1:to give spirit and support to: ENCOURAGE 2a: to give life to b: to give vigor...

... of quotations from seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century elegies, with passages from Puritan writers and early American critics clarify- ing the literary conventions and theological underpinnings of the genre. There is even greater irony in the fact that Hammond’s delightful analysis makes the elegies...

... to recuperate O’Connor into a feminist literary tradition; instead, she makes clear that O’Connor’s female voice refuses suppression and enters the text, if only to express ‘‘a certain amount of self-hatred’’ (161). Prown’s book bears...

.... Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing.By Susan Manning. New York: Palgrave. 2002. viii, 339 pp. $69.95. The Devil & Doctor Dwight: Satire & Theology in the Early American Republic.By...

...Caroline Levander Duke University Press 2004 Caroline ‘‘Let Her White Progeny Offset Her Levander Dark One The Child and the Racial Politics of Nation Making In his famous critique of slavery, Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1754...