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...Joanna Brooks © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England . By Teresa A. Toulouse. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. 225 pp. $49.95. Intricate Relations: Sexual...

.... Pollak. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of Cali- fornia Press. 2000. xxiv, 261 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $18.95. Scholars trying to reconstruct historical connections between Walt Whitman’s sexuality and his poetics tend either to overnormalize nineteenth-century homosexuality—such that homoerotic...

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..., $59.95; paper, $19.95. Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority. By Mark Maslan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 221 pp. $41.95. Calling Emerson and Whitman a crucial nineteenth-century (non)pair, Jay Grossman begins Reconstituting the American Renaissance...

... and insightful contribution to the study of gender, com- modity marketing, and aesthetics, and of their complex interplay during the first two decades in the twentieth-century United States. Eric Henderson, Simon Fraser University Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism. By Joseph Allen...

... theme that efforts to define Whitman as an essentially white or male or gay artist are reductive. Central to all the plural American literatures, Whitman is used by artists of differing genders, sexualities, races, and ethnicities. The epigraphs Price chooses are all admiring, but he is more analyst...

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