...Laura Henigman Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative . By Silva Cristobal . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . xii , 239 pp. Cloth , $74.00 . The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England . By Rivett Sarah . Chapel Hill : Univ...

...Jean Marie Lutes Sentimental Readers: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of a Disparaged Rhetoric . By Halpern Faye . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2013 . xxii , 215 pp. $45.00 . Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism: Narrative Appropriation in American Literature . By Williamson...

... Press . 2013 . xx , 290 pp. Paper , $45.00 ; e-book , $45.00 . Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature . By Day Sarah K. . Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2013 . i , 240 pp. $55.00 . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...Janet Dean Duke University Press 2005 Janet Nameless Outrages: Narrative Authority, Rape Dean Rhetoric, and the Dakota Conflict of 1862 Mr. President, let us relate to you some facts with which we fear you have not heretofore been made...

... more Anglo and monocultural around the middle of the nineteenth century and ‘‘other’’ narratives of New World nationality—Indian and Spanish—were beingrelegated to the realm of the national forgotten,eventhoughtheUnited...

... Literature 72:4 / sheet 202 of238 The Narrative Forms of Southern Community. By Scott Romine. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 226 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95. Scott Romine...

...Jeannine DeLombard Duke University Press 2001 Jeannine ‘‘Eye-Witness to the Cruelty Southern Violence DeLombard and Northern Testimony in Frederick Douglass’s 1845 Narrative 6363...

... these specters as signs of the Vanishing American, the Indians written out of the national narrative while the nation was trying to remove them from the land- 188 American Literature scape. Bergland proceeds by matching authors from each side of this spectral strategy. For instance, Lydia Maria Child’s...

...Paul Giles Duke University Press 2002 Paul Narrative Reversals and Power Exchanges: Giles Frederick Douglass and British Culture Within the last thirty years, Frederick Douglass’s first two autobiographies—Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass...

... about national identity’’ (11) and, as Gardner writes, there is ‘‘a complicated set of American fears about the power of narrative prose to effect rather re- markable changes’’ (22), the study is valuable, especially as a history of—and a reminder to continue debating—these complicated issues of race...

... Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship. By Nathaniel Lewis. Lin- coln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2003. x, 297 pp. $49.95. In the Work of Their Hands Is Their Prayer: Cultural Narrative and Redemption on the American Frontiers, 1830–1930. By Joel Daehnke. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2003...

...Naomi Greyser Duke University Press 2007 Naomi Affective Geographies: Sojourner Greyser Truth’s Narrative, Feminism, and the Ethical Bind of Sentimentalism When Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered the radi- cal proposal for women’s...

...Mendi Lewis Obadike Duke University Press 2007 Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity . By Alexander G. Weheliye. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. xii, 286 pp. $22.95. Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative. By Jurgen E. Grandt. Columbus...

...Dan Moos Duke University Press 2007 Exploding the Empire: Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier . By Sara L. Spurgeon. Texas A & M Univ. Press. 2005. 189 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. Spaces of the Mind: Narrative and Community in the American West . By Elaine...

... of these totalizing narratives of subject formation, leaving the protagonist in a condition of fragmentation. In Paredes's late and peripheral version of modernism, such fragmentation is always rooted firmly in social and political contexts, suggesting that in the borderlands, totalizing scripts of identity collide...

... American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku . By Yoshinobu Hakutani. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2006. ix, 251 pp. Cloth, $41.95; compact disc, $9.95. Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature . By John K. Young...

... a decades-long struggle between the United States and the Sauks, as well as other native peoples in the western Great Lakes region, over how to conceptualize native landholding, diplomacy, and trade. The narrative explores the effects of reducing a complex regional matrix to a series of treaty-mediated...

...Tony Tost Duke University Press 2007 Tony Poetry Criticism after the Narrative Turn Tost History, Memory, and the Literary Left: Modern American Poetry, 1935–1968. By John Lowney. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2006. xii, 287 pp. $39.95. Ashbery’s Forms of Attention...

..., and Narrative . By John Muthyala. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2006. xiv, 213 pp. $39.95. What Women Lose: Exile and the Construction of Imaginary Homelands in Novels by Caribbean Writers . By María Cristina Rodríguez. New York: Peter Lang. 2005. xxii, 200 pp. $32.95. Book Reviews Securing...

...Lance Newman Duke University Press 2007 Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America . By Anne Baker. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2006. 173 pp. $60.00. Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America . By Susan Clair Imbarrato...