... Stein, Modernism, and the Problem of ‘‘Genius By Barbara Will. Edin- burgh, Scotland: Edinburgh Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 180 pp. £40.00. Barbara Will seeks to define what Stein meant when she referred to her- self by that rather elusive and frequently abused term ‘‘genius Avoiding for the most part...

... Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science. By Steven Meyer. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2001. xxiii, 450 pp. $55.00. Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community...

..., San Diego Stein, Bishop, and Rich: Lyrics of Love, War, and Place. By Margaret Dickie. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 1997. 234 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95. Margaret Dickie sets out in this ambitious, engaging book to trace the de- velopment of the ‘‘lesbian public lyric...

...Alissa Karl This essay evaluates how American expatriate modernist projects were structured by ideas about commerce and consumerism prominent in the United States during the early decades of the twentieth century. The study describes how Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933...

..., Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2007. xv, 286 pp. $60.00. A Vocabulary of Thinking: Gertrude Stein and Contemporary North American Women's Innovative Writing . By Deborah M. Mix. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2007. 248 pp. $39.95. Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions...

... Univ. Press . 2014 . xii, 172 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper, $25.95 ; e-book, $25.95 . The Poetics of Waste: Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith . By Schmidt Christopher . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . 2014 . xiv, 224 pp. Cloth , $95.00 ; e-book, $74.99...

.... Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. xxiii, 277 pp. $39.95. Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises, 1923-1934 . By Ulla E. Dydo with William Rice. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press. 2003. xvi, 686 pp. $49.95. Book Reviews Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation...

... the modernists, Stephens argues that “the forms taken by avant-garde writing” respond to a glut of information brought by electronics (13). He demonstrates that writers worried about information overload long before the postwar revolution in informatics. The first chapter, on Gertrude Stein, offers a fascinating...

... cognitive concern. Joseph Urgo, Bryant College 5995 AL 72:1 / sheet 210 of 246 Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright: The Poetics and Politics of Modernism.ByM. Lynn Weiss. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi...

...Jane F. Thrailkill © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture . By Lisa Woolfork. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2009. xi, 233 pp. $40.00. Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo...

...Colbey Emmerson Reid Writing Celebrity: Stein, Fitzgerald, and the Modern(ist) Art of Self-Fashioning . By Galow Timothy W. . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . 2011 . xv , 235 pp. $85.00 . Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity . By Goldman Jonathan . Austin : Univ...

...Anne Raine This essay reads Stein and Cather's early autobiographical fictions as part of a complex negotiation of the gendered divide between the professionalizing sciences and the feminized field of “nature work.” Intrigued yet unsatisfied by scientific accounts of human consciousness...

...Maria Farland Duke University Press 2004 Maria Gertrude Stein’s Brain Work Farland In the eighteenth century that age of manners and formal morals it was believed that the temper of a woman was determined by the turn of her...

... to Gertrude Stein and Lucille Clifton, who center extrasensory perceptions in the compositional scene. Foregrounding mind and body, they upend the privileging of the rational male subject who dominates accounts of authorship in literary studies. By modeling collaborative forms of writing that exceed...

...Toni Wall Jaudon In a recent journal issue, Jordan Alexander Stein and Justine Murison observe that work on non-Protestant religions has the potential to upend conventional accounts of religion’s place in British America. Taking up that challenge, Jaudon’s essay discusses Revolutionary-era literary...

...Jordan Alexander Stein Stein's essay argues that within the inquiry called “the history of sexuality,” a critical preoccupation with the materiality of bodies has occasioned some inattention to the experience and cultivation of sensations, which are clearly not reducible to somatic responses...

...Jordan Alexander Stein This essay posits that scholars interested in studying the history of secularism might avail themselves of the tools attendant upon the study of another well-worn historically important but empirically fraught object: literature. Precisely because secularism is a story—a bad...

...Jordan Alexander Stein Abstract This essay establishes how the scholarly labors that brought Edward Taylor’s works to light in the 1930s foreclosed any understanding of them as queer. The absence of a queer critical reception history is this essay’s subject, and to trace that absence, it focuses...

...Jordan Alexander Stein © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 The Word and Its Witness: The Spiritualization of American Realism . By Gregory S. Jackson. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2009. xiv, 409 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $29.00. Believing Again: Doubt and Faith...

...Jordan Alexander Stein © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America . Ed. Thomas A. Foster. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2007. ix, 405 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. Gay Artists in Modern American Culture...