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... thus begins and ends with a discussion of New England captivity narratives, while the intervening chapters help to clarify their role and value. If the frame of the discussion is at times disconcerting in its movement back...

...Jane Anna Gordon The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War . By Smith Caleb . 2013 . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . xiii , 264 pp. Cloth , $35.00 ; e-book , $35.00 . Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American...

...Claudia Stokes Duke University Press 2007 Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction . By David A. Zimmerman. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2006. xii, 294 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50. The March of Spare Time: The Problem and Promise of Leisure...

... . By Leslie Butler. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. xv, 381 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. Henry James Goes to Paris . By Peter Brooks. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2007. 255 pp. $24.95. Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time . By Wai...

... (ethnic) and the global and disrupting the time/place of the nation. More specifically, Arabian Jazz offers a representation of place structured by layers of displacement, and a representation of time whose emphasis on a frozen present disrupts the teleological time of the nation. At the same time, Abu...

...Eric Solomon Duke University Press 2006 John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War . By Franny Nudelman. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. x, 226 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. The War Complex: World War in Our Time. By Marianna...

...Laura Soderberg Abstract The publication history of Clotel , which was rewritten and rereleased three times in twenty-five years, puts considerable strain on conventional readings of sentimental activism’s focus on the exceptional individual and private resolution. In the patterns of repetition...

...William J. Maxwell Sounding Real: Musicality and American Fiction at the Turn of the Twentieth Century . By Ruotolo Cristina L. . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2013 . x, 170 pp. Cloth , $34.95 ; e-book, $34.95 . Jazz in the Time of the Novel: The Temporal Politics...

...Wai Chee Dimock Duke University Press 2002 Wai Chee Non-Newtonian Time: Robert Lowell, Dimock Roman History, Vietnam War What is non-Newtonian time? No ready answer comes to mind. Its opposite—Newtonian time—hardly fares better. Neither term is idiomatic...

... on the responsible exercise of consent, Eliza’s deferral of her decision on a suitor is a refusal of citizenship; the critique of coquetry is an essential part of the eighteenth-century feminist agenda. At the same time, the circle of friends around Eliza is no more authoritative in Brown’sreading...

..., apart from the sermon’’ in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth- century America (3). His introduction and first two chapters clearly (if some- times a bit repetitiously) describe the difficulty modern readers of early lit- erature often encounter as their contemporary expectations are frustrated. Hammond...

...Betsy Klimasmith This essay reads Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence (1920) not as an escapist response to the First World War but, in its exploration of modern scientific and philosophical conceptions of time and memory as articulated by Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson, an exploration...

... . By Martha Banta. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2007. xxx, 306 pp. $38.00. A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America . By Thomas M. Allen. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 200. xii, 275 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.95. Book Reviews Long...

...Heather Love © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature . By Mitchell Breitwieser. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2007. ix, 322 pp. $60.00. Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth...

..., Anglo-, and Native Americans is its surprising utility as a form, supposed to suppress self-identification, for competing projects of American national identity. © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Karen Marking Time in Native America: Jackson Haiku, Elegy, Survival Ford...

...Irvin J. Hunt The Ethics of Swagger: Prizewinning African American Novels, 1977–1993 . By Hill Michael DeRell . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2013 . ix , 195 pp. Cloth, $51.95 ; CD, $14.95 . The Time Is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy...

... of the cultural amnesia that flows from America’s intoxicating confidence in the transformative power of industrial technology. To counter the temporal imbalance of an industrializing nation drunk with the spirit of innovation, Hawthorne’s “temperance” tales ultimately offer a distillation of time that transports...

...Bryan Waterman Abstract This essay probes literary representations of pandemic temporalities to argue that plague reshapes our sense and experience of time in specific ways: It opens contact with the epidemic past to restructure historical understanding and attendant forms of identity; it promotes...

...Rachel Adams Abstract Care is the intimate and necessary labor required to sustain those who are dependent, but it is also about acting in ways that sustain other species and the lives of strangers distant in time and space. The COVID-19 pandemic shines a spotlight on the vulnerabilities and gaps...

...- izes that language among the ‘‘cultural rhetorics’’ that informed it, arguing that ‘‘Emerson’s language is traversed by his preoccupation with the central political and social issues of his time’’ (10). In doing so Cadava also demon...