Search Results for romance

...Peter Lurie Duke University Press 2001 Peter ‘‘Some Trashy Myth of Reality’s Escape Lurie Romance, History, and Film Viewing in Absalom, Absalom! I must be in the story (verisimilitude needs me), but I must also...

...Susan Belasco By G. R. Thompson and Eric Carl Link. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1999. xvi, 267 pp. $47.50. 2001 420 American Literature Neutral Ground: New Traditionalism and the American Romance...

...Jean M. Lutes © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Love and Marriage in Early African America . Ed. Frances Smith Foster. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press. 2008. xxvi, 329 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.95. Reading Marriage in the American Romance: Remembering Love as Destiny...

... ‘‘Rappaccini’s Daughter The Scarlet Letter, The 6059 American Literature 72:2 / sheet 183 of223 Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun, with side glances at The House of the Seven Gables and some of the other post-Fuller tales and prologues, ex...

...Paul Gilmore In this essay, Gilmore argues that examining the largely forgotten early romances of John Neal within a transatlantic framework leads to a reconsideration of our understanding of romanticism in the United States. Focusing on Randolph (1823) and Logan (1822), he draws parallels between...

...Jené Schoenfeld 2006 American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon . By Anthony Slide. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky. 2004. x, 264 pp. $35.00. The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South . By Thomas Dixon. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky. 2004. xxx, 316 pp...

...Victoria Ramirez Duke University Press 2006 Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties . By Suzanne W. Jones. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 346 pp. $45.95. The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures . By Jeff...

...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...

... of the World, 1869–1922 . By Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. xii, 209 pp. $26.00. Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art-Romance Tradition . By Jonah Siegel. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2005. xv, 285 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $26.95. Book...

...Stephanie A. Smith © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870 . By Karen Woods Weierman. x, 214 pp. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2005. $34.95. Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy...

...Deanna P. Koretsky Poetics of Character: Transatlantic Encounters, 1700–1900 . By Manning Susan . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2013 . xiii , 315 pp. Cloth , $99.00 ; paper , $34.99 ; e-book , $79.00 . Common Things: Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging...

... Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850–1950 . By Amanda J. Zink , Albuquerque : Univ. of New Mexico Press . 2018 . xiii, 339 pp. Cloth, $75.00 ; e-book, $75.00 . Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American Historical Romance...

...Ryanson Alessandro Ku The New Middle Kingdom: China and the Early American Romance of Free Trade . By Kendall A. Johnson . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2017 . x, 371 pp. Cloth, $ 64.95 ; e-book, $ 64.95 . East-West Exchange and Late Modernism: Williams, Moore, Pound...

... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade . By Alan M. Wald. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. xviii, 319 pp. $34.95. Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870–1920 . By Leslie...

... Melanie . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2008 . xiv , 263 pp. Cloth , $71.95 ; paper , $25.95 . Romances of the White Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936 . By Wells Jeremy . Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt Univ. Press . 2011 . x , 238 pp...

...Grant Shreve Since its recovery in the 1980s, Lydia Maria Child’s first novel, Hobomok (1824)—a Puritan historical romance set in Salem, Massachusetts, in the 1620s—has been read primarily in terms of how issues of race and gender operate in the novel. However, these readings ignore the fact...

...Figure 4 Women as nodes (artist unknown; Barnard, “-.- .-—. An Electro-Mechanical Romance,” Scribner’s Monthly , May 1875, 41) ...

... romances. References Abzug Robert . 1994 . Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . Allen Thomas . 2005 . “ Clockwork Nation: Modern Time, Moral Perfectionism, and American Identity in Catherine Beecher and Henry Thoreau...

... love songs to racially liberal Paris to William Gardner Smith's shrewd attack on French colonialism, the trope of interracial romance undergirds both the construction and the questioning of a colorblind Paris. I argue that as African American expatriate writers included North African characters...