...Cody Marrs Marrs's essay considers how Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) provides an immanent account, or inside narrative, of the author's transition from novelist to poet. Focusing on the relation between his figurations of time and the structures of his verse, Marrs argues...

...Timothy Marr Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature . By Egan Jim . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2011 . xi , 167 pp. Cloth , $44.95 ; CD , $14.95 . American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era through the Twentieth...

...Cody Marrs When revolutions rocked Europe in 1848, Frederick Douglass responded almost immediately by framing these movements across the Atlantic in global terms, connecting class strife in the Old World to the struggle over slavery in the New. Yet he also used the revolts of 1848 long after...

... maps onto Marrs’s category of transbellum literature deserves further exploration. J. Matthew Gallman’s Defining Duty in the Civil War takes a wider view of wartime virtue, concentrating on Northern civilians with occasional glimpses at soldiers. From a voluminous survey of print media sources...

... Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies: An Aesthetics in All Things . By Cody Marrs. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. 2023. xi, 176 pp. Cloth, $80.00. Contributing to recent scholarship on the aesthetics of nineteenth-century...

..., Curtis. “Cesar Chavez’s Video Collection” (Scalar project), DOI 10.1215/00029831-2370203. Scalar Project Author Statement: “Cesar Chavez’s Video Collec- tion,” 811. 848  American Literature Marr, Timothy. Review: Berman, American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the Nineteenth-Century...

... © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Announcement 2011 Hennig Cohen Prize Cody Marrs was awarded the Hennig Cohen Prize for his essay “A Wayward Art: Battle-­Pieces and Melville’s Poetic Turn” (March 2010, 91–119). The prize is awarded annually by the Melville Society...

... , 556–57). In addition, Grace spies a strategy in Douglass’s oratory and critique of Protestantism that informs his postexceptionalist approach. He cites the work of Cody Marrs ( 2013 , 463), who observes about Douglass’s transnational politics that “transcending the state is, immediately...

...- ism to neoromanticism and his political commitments from segregation to integration. One Writer’s Imagination: The Fiction of Eudora Welty. By Suzanne Marrs. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2002...

... such suffering (Marr et al. 2019 ). In sessions at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, healthcare providers studied both abstract works and representational portraits before participating in guided discussions about what they noticed in the artwork, what factors shaped the meanings they ascribed...

... they draw “must also point to comparisons with other places in the world and gesture at other organizing prin- ciples for associated knowledges” (27). Hemispheric American Studies engages in similar self-critique by including a few essays that chal- lenge what Timothy Marr calls “the geographic...

... (or a majority faith in Italy) in order to assert Anglo-American religious superiority; rather, anti-Catholic rhetoric serves to highlight the Catholicized otherness of the United States. In his discussion of the temporal imagination in Douglass’s transnational politics, Cody Marrs ( 2013 , 463) points out...

... of grammars draws on Spillers 1987. 16 Our attention to imminent meaning-making practices draws on Brown 2009; W. Johnson 2003; Foreman, Casey, and Patterson 2021; Foster 2005; Mitchell 2020. 17 For recent work rethinking these chronologies, see Marrs 2015 and Revisioning Reconstruction, a special issue...

...,” and “reconciliation,” which “was not necessary for reunion” (6) and is more difficult to account for. For work that engages related questions, see, in history, Downs 2015 ; Egerton 2014 ; and Williams 2017 ; and in literature, Kennedy-Nolle 2015 ; Marrs 2015 ; and Thomas 2017 . 3 There is a productive...

... these and confronts readers with the instability of identity. Cody Marrs’s fascinating essay on “Dickinson’s Physics” explores the scientific foundations of this world view. He contextualizes Dickinson’s recurring use of the word “force” in nineteenth-century physics. In countless experiments, nineteenth-century...

..., to surveying horizons “not just of fear but of hope.” Timelines of American Literature . Ed. Cody Marrs and Christopher Hager. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2019. vi, 349 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $35.95; e-book, $35.95. Featuring contributions by thirty-two scholars of US culture...

... of women writers.2 Even the recent work of Timothy Marr, who draws attention to the complexities of religion and race, disregards women’s appropriations of Islam.3 Marr’s con- tribution compliments an ongoing masculinist tradition of U.S.–Holy Land study.4 This body of scholarship recovers...

... Edwards, and Timothy Marr. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2006. xvii, 373 pp. $59.00. The essays collected here are drawn from a 2001 international conference celebrating the sesquicentennial of the publication of Moby-Dick. Together, the essays highlight new directions...

... am grateful to my mentors, Barbara McCaskill, Cody Marrs, and John Wharton Lowe, for providing feedback of early versions of this essay as part of my dissertation. 1 For further reading on Black military service during this era, see Wil- liams 2010; Donaldson 2020. 2 For further reading on Native...

... geographi- cal regions, had on his work; read him as a moral philosopher; give feminist readings of his texts; and examine his lasting impact on American literature. Eudora Welty & Politics: Did the Writer Crusade? Ed. Harriet Pollack and Suzanne Marrs. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2001...