...John Lowe © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition . By David H. Evans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2008. ix, 289 pp. $40.00. Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition . By Noel Polk...

... of Tradition. Best’s primary subject is the rhetoric that gave form to commodified per- sonhood, defining property as a kind of fugitive possession. The moral and political stakes of the project begin to emerge clearly in Best’s analysis of racial character, specifically in the portion of the second chapter...

... no place either in the atomizing political geography of Indian policy or the hybridized critical imaginary of the “middle ground.” © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Mark Documenting Tradition: Rifkin Territoriality and Textuality in Black Hawk’s Narrative...

... 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...

... Press. 2008. vii, 475 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. The two works under review provide striking examples of the differences between single-author and dual-author studies; even more, their contrasting modes of critical engagement remind us of the fault lines separating traditional...

...Allen Hibbard © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature . By Paul Giles. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Univ. Press. 2006. xii, 419 pp. $115.00. Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform...

...Susan Belasco Duke University Press 2006 Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition . By Cheryl A. Wall. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2005. xii, 309 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. Black Subjects: Identity Formation...

... politics of multiple temporalities. I discuss several books from the period before focusing on Charles W. Chesnutt’s 1901 novel The Marrow of Tradition , in which white supremacists weaponize nonlinear temporalities while punctual black characters express faith in linear progressive historical time...

...Tyler Nickl Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 . By Schuyler David . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . 2012 . xii , 206 pp. $29.95 . Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition . By Sachs Aaron . New...

.... $25.00 . Reconstructing Individualism: A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison . By Albrecht James M. . New York : Fordham Univ. Press . 2012 . xii , 376 pp. $60.00 . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Book Reviews...

...Gabriella Friedman Abstract Rooted partially in the US sentimental tradition, neo-slave narratives often feature lyrical language, emphasize the emotional experience of enslaved characters, and evoke the reader’s sympathy and empathy. Highlighting the use of sentimental conventions in neo-slave...

... Architecture, and City Planning . By Julia E. Daniel Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2017 . ix, 200 pp. Cloth, $55.00 ; paper, $27.50 ; e-book, $55.00 . The Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition . By Jamin Creed Rowan . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania...

...Daylanne K. English englishd@macalester.edu Woody Guthrie’s Modern World Blues . By Will Kaufman . Norman : Univ. of Oklahoma Press . 2017 . xiv, 312 pp. Cloth, $32.95 ; e-book available. Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition . By Adam Gussow...

...). This has to be explained as follows: African Americans did participate traditionally in the concrete side of Southern white identity (its language, history, traditions, religion, labor, wealth) but always as the inferior characters perpetuated by min- 80 American Literature strelized race...

...). Chapter 3 surveys biblical traditions, emphasizing ‘‘Hebraic resignation and Christian resurrection’’ (100), and discusses excessive grief (also a subject of chapter 4) as a rejection of God’s judgment and wisdom, a denial of the ‘‘re- demptive use’’ of grief in the sin-repentance sequence (90...

... specifying and making material the traditional literary topics of influence and intertextuality. Rebecca Ann Bach’s Colonial Transformations proposes an important re- organization of knowledge, claiming not just transatlantic influence but an essential identity between Renaissance English and colonial...

...- cal crises of his age. In recent years, Christopher Newfield has charted the implication of Emersonian individualism in the liberal tradition’s conformist strain in The Emerson Effect (1995), and Robert Richardson has reassessed...

... Traditionalism by which Thompson and Link claim simply to mean a closer study of the past. None- theless, their book offers not only provocative evidence for the fact that the romance controversy still matters but also...

... Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition. By Priscilla L. Walton and Manina Jones. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 1999. 327 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $16.95. In Detective...

... strikes, particularly when accompanied by suffering, other- wise unknown Americans, acting on time-honored tradition, rush their stories into print before the opportunity for fame has passed. Monica Lewinsky’s first lawyer predicted she would ‘‘have no choice but tosellherstoryinorder to pay off her...