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...Michael Moon The Portrait and the Book: Illustration and Literary Culture in Early America . By Megan Walsh . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2017 . viii, 259 pp. Paper, $65.00 ; e-book, $51.99 . Reading Lessons in Seeing: Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical...

...Michael Moon Ed. Hugh Amory and David D. Hall. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2000. xxiv, 638 pp. $125.00. 2000 Book Reviews 6218 American Literature 72:4 / sheet 177 of238 A History of the Book in America, Volume One: The Colonial Book in the Atlan...

...Michael Moon Duke University Press 2004 Michael Turning from the National to the Multilingual Moon Americanist Ed White points to the title under which Cathy Davidson and I republished a special issue of American Literature—Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race...

... slavery. Coevally, the Protestant eclectic astronomer John Wilkins’s Discovery of a New World in the Moone (1684) integrated Copernicus with the Iberian Jesuits’ epistemology of space. Thus, eclectics comprised an epistemic community that connected disciplines across religious, geographical, and imperial...

... psychiatry archive, to Steinbeck’s other war dispatches published in 1958 as the collection Once There Was a War , and to the reception of his propagandistic novel The Moon Is Down in order to show that Steinbeck’s archived piece (infused as it is with the conflicted discourses of war psychiatry) constructs...

...Jennifer Glaser Chute, Fawaz, and Moon illustrate the vigor of contemporary visual studies scholarship and its power to speak to scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. They also manifest how the “proletarian” art form of comics is capable of addressing violence, otherness...

... for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America . New York : New York Univ. Press . Jung Moon-Ho . 2008 . Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . Kunzru Hari . 2005...

...- ing only shadows the moon dropped from the viney maple; moved, and the shadows moved on her . . . Motion rearranged the shadows, baring one breast. There was a lozenge of light over one eye. Calf and ankle were luminous before leaves” (2). The difference between the reflec- tion of light...

... and a type of lunar calendar that marks the 18.6-year cycle of the moon’s northernmost and southernmost rise and set points along the horizon. Remarkably, the accurate observation of these sky phenomena is pos- sible in North America only within a restricted range of latitude.4 The Octagon Earthworks...

.... xxiv, 228 pp. $45.00. A concept from William Least Heat-Moon’s PrairyErth: (a deep map) (1991), deep map refers to a genre of dialogical, multilayered narratives of place. As Maher argues, deep mapping is a technique that Plains nonfiction writers use to reinhabit lost regions. Deep maps...

...) is, for Dearborn, Mailer’s best work, and it is an unsurprising opinion. She declares Of a Fire on the Moon (1971) ‘‘one of the most disastrous projects of his writing life which is a strange assessment when one considers the Tseng 2000.12.5 11:42...

... and the immanent. In chapter 6, Mary, meditating alone in the woods, looks up at the night sky and utters an apostrophe to the moon: Fair planet, . . . how various are the scenes thou passest over in thy shining course. The solitary nun, in the recesses of her cloister, looks on thee as I do now...

... will loom smaller than the flesh-and-blood authors who have delighted and sustained us and those authors sure to come. 624 American Literature Michael Moon Johns Hopkins University Associate Editor, 1991–96; Co-Editor, 1996–98 The first keyword in that urtext of American literature, ‘‘Song...

..., a Black orogene woman who is in search of her lost daughter, Nassun. Together, the two eventually come to discover the nature of Fifth Seasons: the animate planet, known as Father Earth, perpetuates Fifth Seasons to punish humanity due to the loss of his companion, the moon. Through their power of orogeny...

... Scarlett runs to Mammy to nurse, [t]he rosebud mouth attached to the black moon in the brown breast, the curving back of the loving woman lifting the child to her pleasures, as the child, awake, untouched by stays and hoops, stands on tippy-toe to get her fill of pleasure, all raven-haired...

... and the Historiography of Sexuality” (Septem- ber, 469–95) and Hsuan L. Hsu for “Vagrancy and Comparative Racialization in Huckleberry Finn and ‘Three Vagabonds of Trinidad’” (December, 687– 717). Members of the judging committee were Mark McGurl, University of California, Los Angeles (Chair); Michael Moon, Emory...

... will find this volume an indispensable aid to their research in a myriad of ways. Michael Moon, Johns Hopkins University The Seduction Novel of the Early Nation: A Call for Socio-Political Reform...

...- cessful. Where does Oswald’s Tale appear on this list? Just slightly above the center mark. Where is Of a Fire on the Moon within Mailer’s oeuvre? It is the seventh book from the top, following The Executioner’s Song (1979). In a fac...

... of the action and attention to dynamics of sound, could plausibly be accompanied by the three-movement sonata. The first movement’s slow and haunting timbre mirrors the moon rising on an Autumn night, as Roy walks “out of the house for the last time” (43). The rising right hand of the first movement—evocative...

... literary techniques to more than one hundred published works, Brown often featured animals experiencing their environments as human children did. Books such as The Runaway Bunny (1942), Little Chicken ( 1943 ), The Little Fur Family (1946), Goodnight Moon (1947), and Home for a Bunny (1956...