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...; the scholarly monographs in UNC Press’s Social Study Series; and DuBose Heyward’s popular “Negro novel” Porgy (1925). Across this interdisciplinary tradition, writers of various stripes seek by turns to celebrate and contain the threat of the free but noncapitalist black body. The latter figure, recalling...

... refused an offer to return to West Africa as the wife of a Christianized African, choosing to continue her life as a poet in revolutionary America. Exploring Wheatley’s poetry and sociohistorical context, each chapter of this monograph seeks to explain her choice and its ultimate outcome. Barker-Benfield...

...,” this monograph attempts to shatter analytical dualisms by reading the pulp magazine Weird Tales (1929–39) as a project of “pulp ekphrasis.” Carney asserts that Howard, Smith, and Lovecraft use ekphrasis to interrogate the “cruel process of deformation” inherent in modernity. Emphasizing these authors...

... Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 In the Neighborhood: Women’s Publication in Early America . By Caroline Wigginton. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2016. xi, 223 pp. Paper, $25.95. Informed by archival research, this monograph examines early American publics...

... Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence. The Remarkable Kinship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow . By Ashley Andrews Lear. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2018. xiii, 251 pp. Cloth, $29.95. This monograph focuses on the epistolary intersections of two Southern women writers in the early...

... as entangled in the “sacrosanct” ideas of earlier times, ideas that must constantly be addressed. As it contributes to Haw- thorne studies, this monograph also engages scholars’ examination of canon and discipline formation. American Literature, Volume 84, Number 2, June 2012 DOI...

... study of literary pragmatism from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Henry and William James, and Michael LeMahieu’s reveal- ing monograph on the unsuspected shadow cast by logical positivism on post- 612  American Literature war American fiction both address how, and by what authority, literature becomes...

... . By Rebekah Sheldon . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2016 . ix, 235 pp. Cloth, $87.50 ; paper, $25.00 ; e-book available. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 “It matters what matters we use to think other matters with,” Donna Haraway writes in her 2016 monograph Staying...

... of environmental justice”; this indicates, Claborn suggests, that “civil rights has always already been environmental” (11). The monograph provides an astutely expansive understanding of what “environment” came to mean at various points in the first half of the twentieth century: the aesthetic appreciation...

... these monographs, I will use this review essay to follow the distinct axes along which computation has riven the discipline of literary studies. I’m inclined to take this approach because each book is excellent on its own terms. Yet read collectively, these studies raise fundamental questions about disciplinary...

... to the self-reflexive power of storytelling and an interdisciplinary, transatlantic archive. Knowing It When You See It: Henry James / Cinema . By Patrick O’Donnell. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2021. x, 147 pp. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $29.95; e-book available. This monograph considers...

... (Service Psychiatry Monographs, 1941–45, box 2, no. 42). 1 The mystery lay rather in its location in this archive, in its anomalous carbon-copy physicality that tied it so closely to Steinbeck’s own typewriter on the one hand and to the military psychiatrist as reader on the other. How had the dispatch...

... strategy in this monograph is to cull, encyclopedically, all the gay writers Cather may have ever heard about, if not read, in order to suggest that her own literary techniques were deeply informed by (or against!) a wide range...

... by reading Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin stories in context of the gradual criminalization of abortion in the 1820s. Then, the monograph turns to how Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of Seven Gables (1851), and The Blithedale Romance (1852) interrogate privacy, legibility, and even the nation...

... Shell Shock, Memory, and the Novel in the Wake of World War I uses a deliberately narrowing frame to track twentieth-century war literature. The monograph takes shell shock as an organizing concept for “defamiliarizing canonical novels” and “recuperating and recovering” marginalized works (4–5, 5...

... Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction . By Hannah Lauren Murray. Edinburgh, UK: Univ. of Edinburgh Press. 2021. viii, 208 pp. Cloth, $105.00; e-book, $105.00. This monograph argues that “liminal” characters and voices in early US...

... to autists: “Free people treat my people, very smart people who type to communicate, as mindless.” As you read these monographs on the rich rhetorical and literary lives of autists, you may shudder to imagine yourself aligned with the skeptical Harvard experts who, as Stephen Kuusisto reminds us in his...

... forms of literary and cultural expression are intractably related to the very processes that mark their effacement. In their respective monographs they dexterously demonstrate the centrality of the mythic Indian figure to colonial (literary) imaginings. They also both outline the challenges Indigenous...

...-book available. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 These three monographs represent the fruitfulness with which early Americanist scholars have explored the intersections of religious and theological concerns with literary, political, and scientific realms. Abram C. Van Engen’s consideration...

.... Apap) and geographical theory (Ann Brigham and David J. Alworth), these monographs share a concern with the literary production of sociospatial forms, particularly in their attention to both nondominant and dominant constructions or what might be called a long history of imagining space otherwise...