...Reed Way Dasenbrock The New Death: American Modernism and World War I . By James Pearl . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2013 . xii, 259 pp. Cloth , $59.50 ; paper, $29.50 ; e-book, $29.50 . The Politics of Irony in American Modernism . By Stratton Matthew...

...Susan Rosenbaum How can the insights of the new modernist studies invigorate American literary studies and vice versa? Three recent books employ interdisciplinary methodologies to produce striking new understandings of both modernism and American literary history, indicating the productive...

...Daniel Chaskes © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Ethnic Modernism . By Werner Sollors. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 324 pp. Paper, $18.95. Modernism, Race, and Manifestos . By Laura Winkiel. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2008. x, 242 pp. $99.00...

...Colbey Emmerson Reid © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity . By Kevin Bell. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2007. x, 252 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50. Modernism on File: Writers, Artists...

...: Modernism and After . By Charles Altieri. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2006. xi, 245 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $39.95. From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century . By Jennifer Ashton. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2006. x, 201 pp. Cloth, $85.00...

...Michael Soto The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism . By Enda Duffy. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2009. 306 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. Nations of Nothing but Poetry: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing . By Matthew Hart. New York: Oxford Univ...

... Book Reviews 659 Ghostwriting Modernism. By Helen Sword. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2002. xiii, 212 pp. Cloth, $42.50; paper, $18.95. Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism...

...Colbey Emmerson Reid Book Reviews Freedom’s Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640– 1940. By Laura Doyle. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2008. xii, 578 pp. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $27.95. The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade...

...Chris Forster The Great American Songbooks: Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture . By Graham T. Austin . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2013 . xvii , 293 pp. $65.00 . Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song . By Comentale Edward...

..., Yale University DOI 10.1215/00029831-3329734 Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction. By Kate Marshall. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2013. xvii, 233 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $29.95. Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media. By Jessica Pressman. New York: Oxford...

... to be evaluative, but her democratic ethos makes every paperback seem equally successful. Roh does make normative pronouncements, but his judgments derive from an assessment of the function of each literary work within a total system. The ghost of modernism has not been exorcized. The modernism–mass culture...

...]) of the objective anthology, and these in turn later served as the ideological basis of the modern poetry archive. Indeed, the support at institutional sites such as the Library of Congress for bibliographical projects (i.e., manuscript acquisition) was generally predicated on a concern to maintain “cultural unity...

...Amardeep Singh Americanizing Britain: The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire . By Abravanel Genevieve . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2012 . 206 pp. $65.00 . Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism . By White Eric B...

...Edwin J. Barton Duke University Press 2006 Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism . By Kirsten Blythe Painter. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2006. xx, 306 pp. $60.00. Modernism: A Cultural History...

...Jeff Allred Melting-Pot Modernism . By Wilson Sarah . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . 2010 . ix , 264 pp. $45.00 . Late Modernism: Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America . By Genter Robert . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2010 . vii , 375 pp...

...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...

...Jed Rasula © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film . By Susan McCabe. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. x, 284 pp. Cloth, $92.00; paper, $39.99. Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s...

...Colbey Emmerson Reid © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form . By Judith Brown. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2009. xiv, 199 pp. $39.95. Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age . By Marsha Orgeron...

...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...

...Adalaide Morris Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions . By Bernstein Charles . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . 2011 . 282 pp . Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life . By Goble Mark . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2010 . xiii, 374 pp...