...Paul Gutjahr By Jim Egan. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. x, 182 pp. $37.50. 2000 Book Reviews 5995 AL 72:1 / sheet 185 of 246 Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century...

...Arthur Riss An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach . By Herzogenrath Bernd . Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press . 2010 . xii, 316 pp. Cloth , $85.00 ; paper , $39.95 . American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James...

...—fascinating in itself—that enables some brilliant theorizing about blackness and genre. Jarrett’s Representing the Race is not invested in bringing aesthetic catego- ries to bear on politicized writing, but rather in bringing cultural production— specifically, literature—into view as political...

...- ries to bear on politicized writing, but rather in bringing cultural production— specifically, literature—into view as political activity. He therefore draws a much finer line than do Wilson and Ongiri between his project and work that has been done previously in the field; nevertheless, he makes...

...Ellen Weinauer Duke University Press 2007 Writing Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau . By Peter J. Bellis. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. vii, 221 pp. $ 39.95. Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class...

...Jeff Allred © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary . By Jonathan Kahana. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2008. xiii, 436 pp. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $29.00. Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics...

... . By James Phelan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2005. xiv, 236 pp. Cloth, $45; paper, $19.95. FDR's Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability . By Davis W. Houck and Amos Kiewe. College Station: Texas A & M Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 141 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $14.95. Defining...

... Center: William Carlos Williams, John Dewey, and American Cultural Politics. By John Beck. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2001. xii, 202 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $19.95. Making Something Happen...

...) and bythepublishingindustryatlarge. Nevertheless, Poe’s habit of borrowing raises serious questions about au- thorial intent, political belief, and creative freedom. Among other things, 6059 American Literature 72:2 / sheet 188 of223 Ridgely demonstrates...

...Barbara Will By M. Lynn Weiss. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 1998. xiii, 150 pp.$37.00. 2000 Book Reviews 5995 AL 72:1 / sheet 185 of 246 Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth...

...Virginia Kennedy © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture . By Shari M. Huhndorf. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2009. xii, 202 pp. $39.95. Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S...

... of the many lit- erary clubs, magazines, and social and political alliances that helped to stimu- late—or curtail—the emergence and influence of an American intellectual elite. While there is virtually no discussion of literary texts themselves, the understanding of this national literary elite...

... emerged from Emerson’s early essays, Gravil positions Blake, Wordsworth, and Cole- ridge as its true progenitors: just as Locke’s libertarian political writings bore their greatest fruit in Jefferson’s famous manifesto, so the English romantics’ most characteristic notions of liberty and selfhood were...

... anniversary of Emerson’s birth, all solidly historicist and all meant to recuper- ate his radicalism while facing its limits. Together, they add up to an important reassessment of Emerson’s cultural politics based on dialectical synthesis of the polarized critical positions that have gone before. Laura...

...Heather Roberts Duke University Press 2004 Heather ‘‘The Public Heart Urban Life and the Roberts Politics of Sympathy in Lydia Maria Child’s Letters from New York In 1841, the renowned novelist and social reformer Lydia Maria Child elected...

... citizenship. In the face of such resilience, it is nevertheless good to have arguments as dis- ruptive as Kazanjian’s and as patient as Samet’s. Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827–1863. By Maureen Konkle...

... provide detailed his- tory, genealogy (a favorite term of hers), and taxonomy, and a very few useful analyses. Peter Hays, University of California, Davis From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749–1826. By Thomas Hallock. Chapel...

... Philadelphia, although that culture extended well into the nineteenth century. But even more, the author is remembering the lives of these remarkable women, who saw the emergence of political, mythological, literary America formed primarily by male writers in the public sphere. These women—especially...

...Zachariah Pickard Duke University Press 2007 Zachariah The Morality of Aesthetic Action: Pickard Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and the Politics of Poetry In Axel’s Castle (1931), Edmund Wilson argues that the symbolists...

...Eden Osucha Duke University Press 2006 Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism . By Madhu Dubey. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. ix, 284 pp. Paper, $22.00. Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity . By E. Patrick Johnson. Durham, N.C...