...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...

... 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...

...” (1924–1932) 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...

... cultural anxieties as negotiations between postmodern identity and history. Privileged Moments: 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...

... gendered division of labor in which female students were assigned repetitive manual tasks like making anatomical models, while male students did the intellectual work of experimentation and publication.28 But there was more than gender politics involved. As Steven Meyer suggests, Stein was also...

... morality 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...

... sponsoring body, the American Literature Section of the Modern Lan- guage Association, overseen and coordinated this year by Professors Robert Levine, Sheryl Meyering, and Brian Abel Ragen. Professor Frank Shuffleton and an...

... . The Politics of Sleep: 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...

... Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 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...

.... 1992 . Melodramatic 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...

... prominence in Gatsby’s moment. 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...

... 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 cartoon that lampooned Austrian pia- nist Leopold de Meyer’s tour through the United States. The image fea...

...- 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—methodological problems 48 In her...

..., $45.00. American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary. By E. C. Apple- gate. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2002. xxvii, 425 pp. $95.00. Black-Jewish Relations in African American and Jewish American Fiction: An Annotated Bibiography. Ed. Adam Meyer. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow...

... and Ezra Pound as possible early poets of this hazily defined tradition before claiming Ashbery as its first, though relatively late, fully formed poet. Recent critical work by Joan Richardson and Steven Meyer has opened up the important relation between innovations by modernist poets...