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...) than his argument suggests they are. Rosalie Murphy Baum, University of South Florida Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market. By Walter Johnson. Cam- bridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 1999. 283 pp. $26.00. In recent years there has been a regular flow of scholarship on the Atlantic...

...Gerry Canavan Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom . By Scott Selisker . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2016 . 256 pp. Cloth, $91.00 ; paper, $26.00 ; e-book available. Editing the Soul: Science and Fiction in the Genome Age...

...Laura Henigman Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative . By Silva Cristobal . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . xii , 239 pp. Cloth , $74.00 . The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England . By Rivett Sarah . Chapel Hill : Univ...

...-century collaboration between the geologist and Spiritualist lecturer and writer William Denton and his wife, the psychometric medium Elizabeth Foote Denton, which produced a three-volume study titled The Soul of Things : Psychometric Researches and Discovery , published between 1863 and 1874...

... in Gordon, 246). Grappling with the death of her father and subsequently with terminal ill- ness, O’Connor found personal and literary direction in the Catholic doctrine of how the soul must prepare itself for grace. Gordon cautions: W]hatever credit we give O’Connor for a stylistic audacity...

... in African American Literature . By Gene Andrew Jarrett. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. 223 pp. $47.50. Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America . By Bambi Haggins. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2007. x, 274 pp. Cloth, $68.00; paper, $23.95. Book...

...Keith D. Leonard The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium . By Elam Michelle . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2011 . xxiii , 277 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $24.95 . The Postwar African American Novel: Protest and Discontent, 1945...

... a greater interest in art, nature, and the beautiful” and, perhaps more important, compelled them to realize that “factories crush the human body and darken the human soul.”6 Not surprisingly, Sandburg’s conclusions about factories resemble those drawn by Ruskin himself in “The Nature...

... and his keepers, so the metaphor of the prisoner can obscure historical inmates and the institutions that hold them. Now you see the criminal soul correcting itself, now you don’t see muscle against stone. Now you see the prisoner as a metaphor, now you don’t see the Auburn system and its silent...

... that will treat the souls of criminals as something to be corrected by appealing to their potential virtue.8 Hollingsworth’s mis- sion, like that of the Apostle John Eliot, is christianizing savage crimi- nals and saving their souls—that is, making them conform.9 Whether or not this correction of the soul...

... in the city gutters to flaming sunsets over the ocean vistas of the Battery. In each letter, such tangible moments of urban encounter become occasions for Child’s revelation of more abstract spiritual truths. Just as nature offered her fellow New England transcendental- ists myriad analogies to the soul...

... “to Materiality in Early Leaves of Grass  259 material and immaterial” alike also keeps the terms for each at his disposal (LG, 677, 690). “Clear and sweet is my soul,” he claims, . . . . and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul. Lack one lacks both . . . and the unseen is proved...

... . Emerson Ralph Waldo . 1836 . “ Nature .” In Richardson 1990 , 15 – 56 . ———. 1841a . “ Self-Reliance .” In Richardson 1990 , 150 – 74 . ———. 1841b . “ The Over-Soul .” In Richardson 1990 , 175 – 92 . ———. ( 1844a ) 2004 . “ Nominalist and Realist .” In Essays and Poems by Ralph...

... course his thoughts next took: The Lord let me then see I had nothing to do with that but to look on his truth which is to them that come to him, that he would stand as a rock between that scorching sun and their souls. . . . And my heart said, Remember to comfort yourself thus when you lie on your...

... are inextricably linked to the material reality of banking and finance. W. E. B. DuBois and “The Souls of Black Folk.” By Stephanie J. Shaw. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2013. xiii, 273 pp. Cloth, $49.95; e-book available. Arguing that DuBois’s seminal work should be read as a “whole...

... Of all the public appearances and celebrity encounters recorded in Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery , the most suggestive may be a benefit staged at Boston’s Hollis Street Theatre in early 1899. According to the text, Washington made an address, W. E. B. Du Bois read an early version of The Souls...

... in Literature and Art: Performing Identity, 631–33. Review: Brown, Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women’s Subjec- tivity and the Decolonizing Text, 631–33. Luciano, Dana. “Sacred Theories of Earth: Matters of Spirit in The Soul of Things,” 713–36. Maxwell, William J. Review: Henry...

... pieces—“Deep River,” “My Lord, What a Mornin and “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” and even then only in snip- pets—and Cane can come to seem musical in an essentially abstract sense, more concerned with what one of its poems refers to as “soul sounds” than with anything that could be literally heard...

... Legree’s power over Tom, so that the Christian slave spiritually triumphs despite Legree’s physical dominance. Tom’s faith and virtue provoke terror in Legree, whose dialogue makes Tom’s supremacy explicit: “He has conquered! I could not crush his soul.” At the end, Cassy is the one who finally takes...

...) American literary forms precluded. To do so, I begin with a song that exemplifies the musical form Wright wanted to emulate: Coleman Hawkins’s 1939 recording of “Body and Soul” for RCA Records. Hawkins’s “Body and Soul” is a landmark achievement in the history of jazz. Besides the chord progressions...