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...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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...). 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...

...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...

...). 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...

... 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...

...James R. Giles © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition . By Lorenzo Thomas. Ed. Aldon Lynn Nielsen. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2008. 224 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.95. Black Heart: The Moral...

...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...

...,” a traditional African American performance and an African retention, with its “counterclockwise motion of . . . song, dance, and spoken narrative,” established their “distinct temporality and kinship” and as such enabled them to become the “gospel army” of the title (15). This effective formulation encapsulates...

...- 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...

... in her opening sentence that ‘‘the basic prem- ise of this study is not altogether original Indeed, Robert Penn Warren’s debt to the romantic tradition has been a recurring insight since Leonard Casper’s...

.... Lindon Barrett, University of California, Irvine Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers. By Mary Jo Bona. Carbon- dale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 253 pp. $39.95. Mary Jo Bona’s...

... 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...