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...Mary Kathleen Eyring Abstract In 1701 Puritan minister John Rogers published the criminal narrative of Esther Rodgers, who had been convicted of infanticide and executed. Esther Rodgers appears in Rogers’s Death the Certain Wages of Sin not as a depraved criminal or even a repentant sinner...

... this claim by reading liberal and conservative statements about Muslims in the contemporary United States alongside the writings of Roger Williams, whom many consider to be the father of American pluralism. I argue that the modern rhetoric of religious diversity mirrors the eschatological structure...

... and brown subjects. To illustrate these claims, this article examines a seldom-discussed slave case, United States v. Amy (1859), which was tried before Supreme Court chief justice Roger B. Taney two years after his infamous decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). Centering on the figure of the legal...

... novels I discuss in this essay, Roger’s Version by John Updike (1986), Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers (1995), and Microserfs by Douglas Coupland (1995), convey a consciousness of the Frankensteinian implications of the machine that has ushered in what we have optimistically deemed the information age...

...Gary Edward Holcomb Rogers’s intriguing discussion of McKay’s materialization in Spanish translation exemplifies the impressive scholarship Incomparable Empires brings to the study of black modernism. Most thought-provoking is the 1931 translation of McKay’s transnational, transgressive New...

.... The narrator, Roger, is a young man liv- ing in the United States who returns to his childhood home in Guate- mala to investigate the unsolved murder of Flor de Mayo, an orphan who came to his family from Guatemala as a maid but quickly became something like a daughter and sister. In her adoptive community...

...Robyn Wiegman Duke University Press 2002 Robyn Intimate Publics: Race, Property, Wiegman and Personhood On 24 April 1998, Donna Fasano, a white woman, and Deborah Perry-Rogers, a black woman, underwent in vitro fer- tilization at a fertility clinic...

... “The Little Room” is a ghost story of sorts but not in the traditional sense, because it is a room, not a person, that refuses to stay in its place and that takes on different forms. The newly wed female narrator, Mar- garet Grant, recounts to her husband, Roger, that when her mother was young, she had...

... Press . Stark Rodney Finke Roger . 1992 . The Churching of America, 1776–1990: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . Sweet Nancy F. 2005 . “ Dissent and the Daughter in A New England Tale and Hobomok .” Legacy 22 , no. 2...

..., as in the case of Twain’s friendship with Standard Oil executive Henry H. Rogers, or at a further remove, as in the case of Chesnutt’s education, which was supported by a wealthy Northern banker. Sawaya provides intriguing readings of key texts by these authors: one example that feels quite timely given the rise...

...Janet Dean [email protected] Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City: Re-creating the Frontier West . By Kevin Britz and Roger L. Nichols , Norman : Univ. of Oklahoma Press . 2018 . xiii, 266 pp. Cloth, $32.95 ; e-book available. Fictions of Western American...

... Chee . 2008 . Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time . Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press . Ekirch A. Roger . 2005 . At Day's Close: Night in Times Past ( New York : Norton ). Ekirch A. Roger Bussye Daniel J. . “ Is Insomnia History...

... social structures in the United States. Brief Mention  453 Mark Twain and Male Friendship: The Twichell, Howells, and Rogers Friendships. By Peter Messent. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. vii, 250 pp. $49.50. While Mark Twain had many...

... and approaches, Puritans still come tumbling from our syllabi: William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Mary Rowlandson. The old-school roster persists, and although many have revised their surveys of the seventeenth century, more I think have a hard time...

... ‘‘real wealth’’ and embrace the idea of symbolic wealth, an evolution toward a credit economy that Hurston describes as culminating in ‘‘cheques James Harvey Rogers in 1933 sounds like Cassel when he asserts, referring to the gold stan- dard, that ‘‘little by little this most sacred of our economic...

.... Baker, Department of His- tory, Goucher College, Towson, Maryland 21204; Roger Lane, 707 College 6141 AL 72:3 / sheet 237 of 237 Avenue, Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041; Paul Boyer, Institute for Research in the Humanities, Washburn...

... Egbert Craddock .” 1885 . Critic , March 14 . Cross Anson Kent . 1895 . Color Study: A Manual for Teachers and Students . Boston : Ginn . De Piles Roger . ( 1673 ) 1699 . Dialogue sur Coloris . Paris : Nicolas Langlois . ———. 1708 . Cours de Peinture par Principes...

... economic model of religious choice popularized by Roger Finke and Rodney Stark in The Churching of America, 1776–2005 (2005). Curtis’s religious actors are a far cry from Finke and Stark’s rational religious consumers; they are subject to the influence of a host of private institutions and forces...

... a Home suggests that an addicted, enfeebled white Southern manhood cannot be recuper- ated within the sweep of history that Northern progress makes. By contrast, Roe valorizes the self-reliant Northern manhood of Roger Atwood, the farmer’s son from upstate New York who befriends...