...; the figure of the superhero more generally is also figured in these works as a symbol of arrested maturity, both within the fictions and within a larger metafiction about the genre. Works discussed in detail include Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns (1986), Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's Watchmen...

...D. Quentin Miller By Neil Nakadate. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press. 1999. xi, 281 pp. $29.95. 2000 Book Reviews 5995 AL 72:1 / sheet 185 of 246 Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in...

...Monica Miller Upon Provincialism: Southern Literature and National Periodical Culture, 1870–1900 . By Hardwig Bill . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2013 . xii , 184 pp. Cloth , $49.50 ; paper , $24.50 ; e-book , $24.50 . Rural Fictions, Urban Realities: A...

...Cristanne Miller Marianne Moore's war poems of the 1940s, and in particular “In Distrust of Merits,” have frequently been read as a compendium of didactic, clichéd, pious, overstated public pronouncements brought on by the immediate urgency of the war, “show[ing] too much the pressure of news...

...Joshua Miller World Writing: Poetics, Ethics, Globalization . Ed. Gallagher Mary . Toronto, ON : Univ. of Toronto Press . 2008 . vi, 262 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $27.95 . Multilingual America: Language and the Making of American Literature . By Rosenwald Lawrence Alan...

...D. Quentin Miller By Ben Giamo. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2000. xxi, 246 pp.$39.95. 2001 Reviews Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787–1845.By Jared Gardner. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 1998. xvii, 238 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper...

...Jeffrey W. Miller By Susan K. Gillman. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. xi, 245 pp. Paper, $19.00. By Barbara Foley. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2003. x, 313 pp.$44.95. By Tara McPherson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 318 pp. Paper, $21.95. 2005 190...

...D. Quentin Miller By William Beverly. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2003. xvii, 236 pp. $40.00. By John Houchin. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2003. ix, 332 pp.$60.00. 2005 196 American Literature well detailed and ideologies labeled and defined, but little of Faulkner...

...D. Quentin Miller Duke University Press 2005 D. Quentin Deeper Blues, or the Posthuman Prometheus: Miller Cybernetic Renewal and the Late-Twentieth- Century American Novel ‘‘In a Battle of Wits, Your Computer Will Always Win...

...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...

...Abram Van Engen Female Piety and the Invention of American Puritanism . By Traister Bryce . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2016 . Ix, 232 pp. Cloth , $69.95 ; e-book, $19.95 . Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700–1850 . By Miller Mark J. . Philadelphia : Univ. of...

...Marianne Noble Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century . By Miller Cristanne . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2012 . x, 279 pp. Paper , $28.95 . Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics . By Socarides Alexandra . New York : Oxford Univ...

... neighborhood. Thomas C. Miller, an African American real estate agent, helped bring African American families into white neighborhoods and also had extensive land hold- ings throughout the city. As a result of these sweeping...

... ideology and flips it on its head, meanwhile presenting progress not as an eventual triumph of race mixing but as a function of time itself. He writes that Dr. Miller, the African American doctor who is Marrow ’s protagonist, “liked to believe that the race antagonism which hampered his progress and that...

...Shelley Streeby Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia . By Cremins Brian . Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2016 . xiv, 203 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Frank Miller’s Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism . By Young Paul . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2016...

... E. Miller Jr. University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press. 2005. xx, 468 pp. $39.95. This biographical study offers a close examination of the poet’s early years. Demonstrating that Eliot’s twenty-six years as an American citizen was a major influence on his art, Miller tells of Eliot’s coming...

...-2367355 Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Century. By Cristanne Miller. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2012. x, 279 pp. Paper, $28.95. Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics. By Alexandra Socarides. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2012. ix, 211 pp. Cloth, $49.95...

... grace. His broader goal is to assert an inclusive theology of limits in which “we are all grotesque, and our grotesqueries and limitations are our gateways to reality.” Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist, a Philosophical Inquiry. By Indrek Männiste. New York: Bloomsbury. 2013. xvi, 148 pp...

... South with the novel’s African Ameri- can protagonist, Dr. Miller, the Northerner Dr. Burns comments that the future of the African American race is “‘a serial story which we [Northerners] are all reading, and which grows in vital interest with each successive installment’” (MT, 75). Northerners...

... festivals, Philadelphia mummers’ parades, the Brooklyn giglio ritual, and German passion plays, Sponsler makes connections between medieval drama and American history from colonial times to the present. Arthur Miller: A Critical Study. By Christopher Bigsby. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. x...