...Brian M. Reed © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 A Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary. By Geoffrey Jacques. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2009. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $28.95. Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry...

...Maeera Y. Shreiber Modernist Writings and Religio-Scientific Discourse: H.D., Loy, and Toomer . By Vetter Lara . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . 2010 . xi, 219 pp. $80.00 . On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry . By Finkelstein Norman...

...Greg Forter Duke University Press 2006 Greg F. Scott Fitzgerald, Modernist Studies, and Forter the Fin-de-Siècle Crisis in Masculinity This essay brings together two fields in American studies that have rarely been placed in dialogue but have urgent...

... University Queer Poetics: Five Modernist Women Writers. By Mary E. Galvin. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 1999. xii, 143 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95. This many lesbian modernist poets haven’t appeared...

... of their arguably quite disparate modernist projects, can the poetics of transition bind late Henry James (chap. 5), early Stein (chap. 6), and both early and late Stevens (chap. 7) so seamlessly and universally together? Even Emerson might have balked, 202 American Literature upon whom Levin’s own elegant...

... States. Eric Henderson, Simon Fraser University Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism. By Joseph Allen Boone. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 1998. xii, 513 pp. $54.00. In this intensive mix of intelligent and very close readings of modernist lit- erature, Joseph Allen...

...Charles Scruggs Duke University Press 2007 The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s . By James Edward Smethurst. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. xv, 471 pp. $59.95. The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century...

... . By Tim Armstrong. Cambridge, Eng.: Polity. 2005. x, 176 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95. Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction . By Philip M. Weinstein. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2005. x, 308 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $21.95. Book Reviews New World, Known World: Shaping...

.... 2006. ix, 230 pp. $29.95. Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature . By Michael Borshuk. New York: Routledge. 2005. xi, 252 pp. $75.00. Book Reviews Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America. By Anne Baker. Ann Arbor...

...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...

...Paula Rabinowitz © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Working Women, Literary Ladies: The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration . By Sylvia Jenkins Cook. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Univ. Press. 2008. 292 pp. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $24.95. Grotesque Relations: Modernist...

...David Tomkins [email protected] In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen . By Alix Beeston . Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press . 2018 . xvi, 256 pp. Cloth, $78.00 . What Was Literary Impressionism? By Michael Fried . Cambridge, MA...

...Jeanne Heuving Questions of Poetics: Language Writing and Consequences . By Barrett Watten . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2016 . xi, 294 pp. Paper, $55.00 ; e-book, $55.00 . Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poetries . By Mark Scroggins . Tuscaloosa...

...Christopher Breu The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous . By Erin E. Edwards . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2018 . xii, 227 pp. Cloth, $ 108.00 ; paper, $ 27.00 . Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century...

...Colbey Emmerson Reid © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Interventions into Modernist Cultures: Poetry from beyond the Empty Screen . By Amie Elizabeth Parry. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2007. x, 188 pp. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. Race, Nationalism, and the State...

... Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science. By Steven Meyer. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2001. xxiii, 450 pp. $55.00. Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community...

... Modernist Sexualities. Ed. Hugh Stevens and Caroline Howlett. New York: St. Mar- tin’s. 2000. ix, 276 pp. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $32.95. Harold Monro: Poet of the New Age. By Dominic Hibberd. New York: Palgrave. 2001...

...Alissa Karl This essay evaluates how American expatriate modernist projects were structured by ideas about commerce and consumerism prominent in the United States during the early decades of the twentieth century. The study describes how Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933...

...Elizabeth Lloyd Oliphant Abstract This essay analyzes the mutually influential relationship between literary modernism and tourism as those two interests converged around the US Southwest in the early twentieth century. Modernist writers were drawn to the Southwest’s folk and Native American...

... in this development. As a consciously synthetic form of writing, the vernacular sonnet allowed poets to combine black everyday speech and high-modernist elements without subordinating one to the other. The essay examines the transformations these idioms underwent in response to each other and traces the emergence...