...Janet Dean “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911 . By Hochman Barbara . 2011 . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . xv , 377 pp. $28.95 . Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing . By Hager...

...Emily Satterwhite Duke University Press 2006 Emily Reading Craddock, Reading Murfree: Satterwhite Local Color, Authenticity, and Geographies of Reception You see it had never occurred to any of us that ‘‘Craddock’’ was not a man...

...Carolyn Sorisio From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry. By Mary Loeffelholz. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2004. xi, 275 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on Reading and Writing...

...Jennifer L. Brady By reconsidering the complex, dialectical relationship that existed between novels and their detractors in the antebellum United States, Brady's essay argues that antinovel commentators aimed not simply to limit the activity of novel reading but to redefine what it is and, more...

... of Reading Children . Speicher argues that portrayals of children reading and spelling addressed the debate about “whether schooling was to allow anyone with talent and dedication to succeed or to ensure that those in positions of privilege would maintain their privilege in the face of social change...

... Faulkner and the Politics of Reading. By Karl F. Zender. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2002. xviii, 179 pp. $29.95. Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner’s ‘‘Go Down, Moses By Thadious M. Davis. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xi, 339 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $21.95...

...Renée Bergland 2005 Writing for Immortality: Women Writers and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America . By Anne E. Boyd. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2004. x, 305 pp. $55.00; The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789...

...Martha Nell Smith Duke University Press 2007 Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading . By Virginia Jackson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2005. xvii, 298 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95. Measures of Possibility: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts . By Domhnall...

... Southern and Spanish American Fiction . By Deborah N. Cohn. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt Univ. Press. 1999. x, 236 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $22.95. Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales . By Keith Cartwright. Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky Press. 2004. 270 pp...

...Merry Ovnick Duke University Press 2007 Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California . By Dydia DeLyser. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. xxiii, 256 pp. Cloth, $56.95; paper, $18.95. Reading the Trail: Exploring the Literature and Natural...

... of the book, of the natural history collection as an 6141 AL 72:3 / sheet 171 of 237 extension and expression of the naturalist-collector. The chapter on John and William Bartram reads the famous Bartram garden at Kingsessing as an im- portant...

... for them to distinguish themselves from their European counterparts. The groundbreaking claims of Egan’s work are weakened, in part, by the limits he imposes on their reach. While he provides wonderful readings of a 5995 AL 72:1...

..., by the limits he imposes on their reach. While he provides wonderful readings of a 5995 AL 72:1 / sheet 186 of 246 few authors, at times I found myself wonderingjust how far these ideas pene- trated the entire culture. I would have liked more thorough discussions...

... Brown, Cooper, Poe, and Frederick Douglass, the ample evidence, plus wide and careful reading, makes the study compelling. The last two chapters comprise an intriguing reading of Pym and an always difficult reassessment of the well-known work of an iconic figure. However, Gardner’s evidence documents...

... Book Reviews 867 poem—as missing places in our literary maps of the nineteenth-century United States. Hamilton’s reading of the antebellum sketch is distinctly more suspicious than is Kete’s study of the genres of the album. The intimacy of the sketch, in Hamilton’s analysis, is always...

...Barbara Hochman Duke University Press 2002 Barbara The Reading Habit and ‘‘The Yellow Wallpaper’’ Hochman During Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s engagement to Walter Stetson, a friend offered her a copy of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Gilman refused to accept...

..., Corrigan’s lucid and detailed fusion of scholarship and analysis makes this book a fine contribution to current Warren studies. Victor Strandberg, Duke University Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian Resistance...

..., by the limits he imposes on their reach. While he provides wonderful readings of a 5995 AL 72:1 / sheet 186 of 246 few authors, at times I found myself wonderingjust how far these ideas pene- trated the entire culture. I would have liked more thorough discussions...

... for them to distinguish themselves from their European counterparts. The groundbreaking claims of Egan’s work are weakened, in part, by the limits he imposes on their reach. While he provides wonderful readings of a 5995 AL 72:1...

... insight, but what makes this collection so useful is how it employs such a broad array of theoretically thoughtful and empirically rigorous scholarly approaches to explore various early American zones of encounter, revealing how a multiplicity of readings are available for past events that often tell...