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...Edwin J. Barton By Steven Meyer. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2001. xxiii, 450 pp. $55.00. By Jessica Berman. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2001. x, 242 pp.$59.95. 2003 438 American Literature...

...–1932) to Hemingway as “The Undisputed Champ Once More” (2011–2014). Robert Lowell in Love . By Jeffrey Meyers. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2016. xii, 263 pp. $34.95. Throughout his life, Lowell struggled against insanity and the urge to commit suicide. As Meyers points out, Lowell...

... the intellectual work of experimentation and publication.28 But there was more than gender politics involved. As Steven Meyer suggests, Stein was also impatient with conceptual models that did not attend to organic pro- cesses of growth and change and that privileged external description over experiential...

... 2006 Announcement The editorial staff at American Literature would like to express our deep appreciation to Sheryl Meyering and Brian Abel Ragen (Southern Illinois Uni- versity, Edwardsville) for their six years of energetic service as executive coordinators of the American Literature...

...: Encounters with Writers. By Jeffrey Meyers. Madison: Univ. of Wis- consin Press. 2000. viii, 149 pp. $24.95. This book of essays is principally a memoir of Jeffrey Meyers’s encounters with writers Allen Ginsberg, James Dickey, Ed Dorn, Arthur Miller, Iris Mur- 682 American Literature doch, V. S...

...- sumption in the market economy. This shift was a widely noted fea- ture of the Jacksonian period in which, according to Melvin Meyers, ‘‘cool calculation’’ and ‘‘prudent pursuit of advantage’’ assume ‘‘the aura of an old...

...: Governing (Un)Consciousness in the Late Modern Age . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Wolf-Meyer Matthew . 2008 . “ Sleep, Signification, and the Abstract Body of Allopathic Medicine .” Body and Society 14 , no. 4 : 93 – 118 . ———. 2012 . The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine...

..., in a description of one moment in Philipp Meyer’s American Rust (2009), Linkon describes one character’s realization that dead-end jobs cannot satisfy or nourish one for long: “Poe also recognizes that such work would end one day, and he is troubled by the idea of helping to erase America’s industrial history...

... for their ideas is less so. And they are joined by less expected thinkers such as J. B. Jackson (creator of the mid-twentieth-century journal, Landscape ), Edgar Anderson (director of the Missouri Botanical Garden), E. B. White, Meyer Berger, Joseph Mitchell, A. J. Liebling, Alva Johnston, Niven Busch Jr...

... this year by Professors Robert Levine, Sheryl Meyering, and Brian Abel Ragen. Professor Frank Shuffleton and an outstanding nominating committee from the Section provided the journal with a remarkable new group of edito...

... Time, by Hemingway, Nation, February 10, 1926, reprinted in Hemingway: The Critical Heritage, ed. Jeffrey Meyers (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982), 70. For a comprehensive account of how modernism defined itself through this focus on sensation and experience...

... that actually bears close resemblances to the traditional values of Western humanism. 444  American Literature Bibliographies and Guides A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia. Ed. Brian Railsback and Michael J. Meyer. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2006. lviii, 482 pp. $125.00. Encyclopedia of the Harlem...

..., but they generally relied on styles of cartooning in which the image is locked in place and the viewer moves his or her eye around a single frame, often reading through long script to make sense of the image. We see this model at work, for instance, in “The Celebrated Racer de Meyer” (fig. 5), an 1846...

... chapters of the novel to lengthy discus- sions of the methodology of description. For example, in the Martha Hersland section, as Steven Meyer has observed, the first half of a two-hundred-page chapter never mentions its subject but is ‘‘exclu- sively concerned with Stein’s—and her narrator’s...

... representation in which, as Richard Meyer compellingly argues, ‘‘homosexuality sup- plants HIV as the origin and etiology of Rock Hudson’s illness In citing a young, healthy Rock, rather than the older Rock who came to personify the ‘‘physical repercussions of AIDS the novel rejects the popular...

.... Patricia Meyer Spacks is surely right, for instance, that the entire operation of Fitzgerald’s novel takes place “in gossip’s shadow,” and that Nick wants to separate his story from the malevolence and Gatsby’s Tabloid Shadows 121 triviality of what he calls...

... seventeenth cen- tury’’ (Arthur Mizener, The Far Side of Paradise: A Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald [Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949], 1). 24 On Fitzgerald’s father, see Mellow, Invented Lives, 13–17; Le Vot, FSF, 5–7, 9, 12, 17; Donaldson, Fool for Love, 1–10; and Jeffrey Meyers, Scott...

... . Lofft Capel , ed. 1790 . “ Somerset against Stewart .” In Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King’s Bench , 1 – 20 . Dublin, IE : James Moore . Meyers Peter C. 2007 . Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism . Lawrence : Univ. Press of Kansas...

... Formations: American Theatre and Society, 1820-1870 . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . Meyers Norman J. 1989-90 . “ Edwin Forrest’s Coriolanus: The Democrat as Aristocrat .” Selected Papers from the West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association 14 : 29 – 41 . Miller Tice L...