..., is a priori incompatible with indigenous conditions because of its foreign origins, what happens if we posit Laya’s adoption of the form instead as part of a historically emergent peripheral realism, one that sought to register the contradictory conditions entailed in a colonial territory’s “incorporation...

...? Rohrbach thoughtfully depicts both abolitionists and realists as producers of literary commodities; her argument that the roots of realism are found in the slave narrative would have been strengthened by a comple...

...Hosam Aboul-Ela Duke University Press 2005 Hosam The Poetics of Peripheralization: Aboul-Ela Faulkner and the Question of the Postcolonial For human progress evolves in stages, said Mariátegui, stages that are not entirely linear...

... of the story. No railroad, stagecoach, or other conveyance makes an appearance. Combined with literary realism’s presupposition that authors wrote based on first-hand experience, Murfree’s depiction of a region with such nonporous borders left readers with little choice but to imag- ine the author...

... Steven . 2017 . Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia . New York : Hill and Wang . [email protected] Homelessness in American Literature: Romanticism, Realism, and Testimony . By John Allen . New York : Routledge . (2004) 2018 . vii, 195 pp. Cloth, $160.00 ; paper...

...Habiba Ibrahim Duke University Press 2006 Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism . By Henry B. Wonham. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2004. viii, 196 pp. $47.50. Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture . By Martha Jane Nadell...

... in American literary studies, the particularities of disability’s representation in the early national novel must be considered in their particular US context. The extraordinary bodies that do exist in early US fiction are more transient and peripheral. They are frequently not permanent or memorable...

... 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...

... category of aesthetics itself. Though the book sometimes does invoke peripheral figures like John Donne or George Herbert as contexts for Puritan poetics, it never provides a thorough and far-reaching analysis of seventeenth-century formulations of or debates about aesthetic value. This would have put...

... of aesthetics itself. Though the book sometimes does invoke peripheral figures like John Donne or George Herbert as contexts for Puritan poetics, it never provides a thorough and far-reaching analysis of seventeenth-century formulations of or debates about aesthetic value. This would have put early American...

... category of aesthetics itself. Though the book sometimes does invoke peripheral figures like John Donne or George Herbert as contexts for Puritan poetics, it never provides a thorough and far-reaching analysis of seventeenth-century formulations of or debates about aesthetic value. This would have put...

... unfolded less predictably if Morris had pressed the historical and theoretical category of aesthetics itself. Though the book sometimes does invoke peripheral figures like John Donne or George Herbert as contexts for Puritan poetics, it never provides a thorough and far-reaching analysis of seventeenth...

... category of aesthetics itself. Though the book sometimes does invoke peripheral figures like John Donne or George Herbert as contexts for Puritan poetics, it never provides a thorough and far-reaching analysis of seventeenth-century formulations of or debates about aesthetic value. This would have put...

... does invoke peripheral figures like John Donne or George Herbert as contexts for Puritan poetics, it never provides a thorough and far-reaching analysis of seventeenth-century formulations of or debates about aesthetic value. This would have put early American poetics in a larger con- versation...

... with tensions and even para- doxes. Perhaps the argument might have unfolded less predictably if Morris had pressed the historical and theoretical category of aesthetics itself. Though the book sometimes does invoke peripheral figures like John Donne or George Herbert as contexts for Puritan poetics...

... with tensions and even para- doxes. Perhaps the argument might have unfolded less predictably if Morris had pressed the historical and theoretical category of aesthetics itself. Though the book sometimes does invoke peripheral figures like John Donne or George Herbert as contexts for Puritan poetics...

... in Puritan studies that this literature is fraught with tensions and even para- doxes. Perhaps the argument might have unfolded less predictably if Morris had pressed the historical and theoretical category of aesthetics itself. Though the book sometimes does invoke peripheral figures like John Donne...

... conventional argument in Puritan studies that this literature is fraught with tensions and even para- doxes. Perhaps the argument might have unfolded less predictably if Morris had pressed the historical and theoretical category of aesthetics itself. Though the book sometimes does invoke peripheral figures...

... conventional argument in Puritan studies that this literature is fraught with tensions and even para- doxes. Perhaps the argument might have unfolded less predictably if Morris had pressed the historical and theoretical category of aesthetics itself. Though the book sometimes does invoke peripheral figures...

... unfolded less predictably if Morris had pressed the historical and theoretical category of aesthetics itself. Though the book sometimes does invoke peripheral figures like John Donne or George Herbert as contexts for Puritan poetics, it never provides a thorough and far-reaching analysis of seventeenth...