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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...

...Barbara Eckstein Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans . By Julia Guarneri . Chicago, IL : Univ. of Chicago Press . 2017 . 330 pp. Cloth, $45.00 ; paper, $30.00 ; e-book available. Building Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape...

...Christopher Newfield 2006 Modern Women, Modern Work: Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950 . By Francesca Sawaya. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. 198 pp. $42.50. The Business of America: The Cultural Production of a Post-War Nation...

... indictment of the post–World War II US health care system. According to Times journalist Matthew Haag ( 2017 ), Chandler’s story “could pass as modern fiction, offering sharp criticism about a health care system chasing higher profits and patients who cannot afford treatment.” The managing editor...

... here and in Lomax’s project as a whole remain unremarked upon (there is, however, a chapter titled “Blacks + Jews = The Blues”). Second, in his exclusive focus on lyrics, Kaufman loses an opportunity to engage with sonic modernism; surely Guthrie’s distinctive voice merited attention. In Woody...

...Stephanie A. Smith © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870 . By Karen Woods Weierman. x, 214 pp. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2005. $34.95. Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy...

...Aviva F. Taubenfeld © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Inventing Modern Adolescence: The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America . By Sarah E. Chinn. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 199 pp. Cloth, $68.00; paper, $24.95. Immigration...

... of the sleep-waking continuum as a spiritual and bodily mandate. Using the lens of disability studies to link Thoreau's own private sleep disturbances to his broader critique of modernity, I argue that a reading of Walden can help uncover the origins of how sleep has become a problem in our contemporary world...

... focus of GerShun Avilez’s Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism is on the formal and generic experimentations of contemporary black artists that are rooted in the black nationalism of the 1960s and 1970s but incorporate contemporary reformulations of black nationalist thought. While we tend...

...Martin Paul Eve Mere Reading: The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels . By Lee Clark Mitchell . New York : Bloomsbury Academic . 2017 . x, 262 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $26.96 ; e-book, $21.56 . Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing...

...Hosam Aboul-Ela The Health of the State: Modern US War Narrative and the American Political Imagination, 1890–1964 . By Jonathan Vincent . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2017 . xii, 293 pp. Cloth, $82.00 ; e-book available. This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel...

...Sarah Juliet Lauro Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters . By Maya Barzilai . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2016 . xvii, 305 pp. Cloth, $35.00 . The Tar Baby: A Global History . By Bryan Wagner . Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press . 2017 . xv, 261 pp. Cloth...

...Rebecca Evans Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895–1941 . By John Claborn . London : Bloomsbury . 2018 . vii, 203. Cloth, $ 114.00 ; paper, $ 39.95 ; e-book, $ 35.95 . Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature...

...Tyrone Williams After Translation: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics across the Atlantic . By Infante Ignacio . New York : Fordham Univ. Press . 2013 . xiv , 217 pp. $45.00 . The Worlds of Langston Hughes: Modernism and Translation in the Americas...

... . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2011 . xii , 149 pp. $27.50 . Dead Women Talking: Figures of Injustice in American Literature . By Norman Brian . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2013 . viii , 223 pp. Cloth , $45.00 ; paper , $29.95 . Dying Modern: A Meditation...

...Sean Metzger Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina . By Cruz Denise . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2012 . xii , 296 pp. Cloth , $89.95 ; paper , $24.95 . Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism . By Duong Lan P...

... 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...

...Gayle Wald Book Reviews  841 James Weldon Johnson’s Modern Soundscapes. By Noelle Morrissette. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2013. xiii, 243 pp. Paper, $45.00. Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem. By Jean...

...Jeanne Heuving The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly . By McCaffery Steve . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2012 . xii , 282 pp. Paper, $34.95 ; e-book, $34.95 . Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry . By Reddy...

...Ann Keniston Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture . By Keyser Catherine . New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2010 . xii, 225 pp. $39.95 . Pink Pirates: Contemporary American Women Writers and Copyright . By Irr Caren . Iowa City...