...Christen Mucher Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel . By Coleman Dawn . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2013 . ix , 293 pp. $69.95 . Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel . By Gura Philip F. . New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux . 2013...

... of the African American Novel. By M. Giulia Fabi. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2001. xi, 187 pp. $32.50. ‘‘Think outside the Bun’’ was the slogan of a $200 million advertising cam- paign unleashed...

...D. Quentin Miller Duke University Press 2005 D. Quentin Deeper Blues, or the Posthuman Prometheus: Miller Cybernetic Renewal and the Late-Twentieth- Century American Novel ‘‘In a Battle of Wits, Your Computer Will Always Win...

...-1880 . By Candy Gunther Brown. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. xiv, 336 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95; Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America . By Patricia Okker. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2004. xii, 202 pp. $37.50. Book Reviews...

...Ursula K. Heise Duke University Press 2002 Ursula K. Toxins, Drugs, and Global Systems: Risk and Heise Narrative in the Contemporary Novel Much work in the field of ecocriticism, estab- lished in American literary studies during the 1990s, assumes...

... / sheet 187 of 252 The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors. By William Dean Howells et al. Dur- ham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. li, 341 pp. Paper, $18.95. In early 1906, William Dean Howells approached...

..., N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. viii, 252 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $18.95. White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel. By Cath- erine Jurca. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press...

... 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...

...Dennis Berthold By Katherine V. Snyder. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 1999. x,285 pp. $59.95. 2000 Book Reviews 891 Bachelors, Manhood, and the Novel, 1850–1925...

... mind’’ (15). However, this leaves her open to an intentional fallacy. In Pet Sematary, she says, King invokes ‘‘threatening Native specters in order to shore up white hegemony’’ (167); that may be the result of his novel, but we cannot know if that was his intention. Teachers and students (upper...

... Novel . By Raymond Leslie Williams. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2003. xi, 266 pp. Paper, $22.95. Book Reviews Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic. By Jeffrey Richards. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. xi, 392 pp. $85.00. Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior...

... American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches . By Bernard W. Bell. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2004. xxviii, 499 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $24.95. Book Reviews New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing.By David Read. Columbia: Univ...

... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 American Indian Literary Nationalism . By Jace Weaver, Craig S. Womack, and Robert Warrior. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press. 2006. xxii, 272 pp. Paper, $19.95. Muting White Noise: Native American and European American Novel...

...Elizabeth Dill In “That Damned Mob of Scribbling Siblings: The American Romance as Anti-Novel in The Power of Sympathy and Pierre ,” Elizabeth Dill discusses the eruption of genre chaos in early and mid-nineteenth century American works of fiction. In order to do so, she considers the connections...

...Sari Altschuler This essay traces disability’s entry into the American novel. It argues that disability was largely absent from the first US novels and that it emerged into US fiction only after the War of 1812 (1812-1815). The cultural logic of disability in later periods was largely incompatible...

... Cold War American Novel 1945–present transnational Amercian studies References Axelsson Arne . 1990 . Restrained Response: American Novels of the Cold War and Korea, 1945–1962 . New York : Greenwood . Beattie Keith . 1998 . The Scars That Bind: American Culture...

... representation of the heteroerotics of Philippine nationalism to a group of novels that represent queer male sexuality in the martial-law period. Ultimately arguing that corelessness is constitutive of diasporic Filipino lit- erature, Ponce contends that this corelessness signals not simply internal dif...

... . By Hoffman Tyler . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2011 . 271 pp. $45.00 . Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel . By Kurnick David . Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press . 2011 . x , 254 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $32.50 . Pioneer Performances: Staging...

...Cynthia Wu Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color . By Romero Channette . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2012 . viii , 217 pp. Cloth , $55.00 ; paper , $22.50 . Guerrillas in the Industrial Jungle: Radicalism’s...

... will be especially interested both in Walsh’s analysis of illustrations from the seduction novel, the most widely read fiction subgenre of the day (ch. 4), and in the final chapter of the book, in which she reflects productively on what appears to be a keen and foreboding sense of the dangers and deceits...