...Augusta Rohrbach Augusta Rohrbach 2002 Augusta ‘‘Truth Stronger and Stranger Than Fiction Rohrbach Reexamining William Lloyd Garrison’s Liberator In the words of James Russell Lowell, fellow aboli- tionist, William Lloyd Garrison ‘‘knew how types were set...

... Book Reviews 639 secondary attention given to the texts as such. In general, however, the book is thoughtful, well written, and well researched. John Dolis, Penn State University, Scranton The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America.ByAnn Fabian. Berkeley and Los...

...Lee Schweninger © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Art as Performance, Story as Criticism: Reflections on Native Literary Aesthetics . By Craig S. Womack. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2009. 406 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $24.95. We Will Dance Our Truth: Yaqui History in...

... obsession. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Daniel “If You Want to Know the Truth”: Pecchenino Fair Use, Authenticity, and J. D. Salinger On 25 May 1986, Random House received a letter informing the publishing company that the reclusive and uncoopera- tive...

...Sarah Eden Schiff Duke University Press 2007 Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s . By Janet Handler Burstein. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 2006. xv, 264 pp. $45.00. Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity . By Ross Posnock...

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...John Ernest Duke University Press 2006 John The Floating Icon and the Fluid Text: Ernest Rereading the Narrative of Sojourner Truth It is perhaps unsurprising, given Sojourner Truth’s unique place in the popular and scholarly imagination, that her...

.... $29.95. Truth Stranger than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary Marketplace.By 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 191 of 246 Augusta Rohrbach. New York: Palgrave. 2002. xvi, 153 pp. $45.00. In their studies of white...

...Ann Mikkelsen Duke University Press 2003 Ann ‘‘The Truth about Us Pastoral, Pragmatism, Mikkelsen and Paterson et in the depressed New Jersey city where Wil- 6903...

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...Michael Lundblad By Dana Phillips. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 300 pp. Cloth,$74.00; paper, $24.95. By Ann Ronald. Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press. 2003. xviii, 248 pp. Paper,$21.95. 2004 Book Reviews Emerson’s Life in Science: The Culture of Truth. By Laura Dassow Walls...

...Christen Mucher Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel . By Coleman Dawn . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2013 . ix , 293 pp. $69.95 . Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel . By Gura Philip F. . New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux . 2013...

...Naomi Greyser Duke University Press 2007 Naomi Affective Geographies: Sojourner Greyser Truth’s Narrative, Feminism, and the Ethical Bind of Sentimentalism When Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered the radi- cal proposal for women’s...

... these traditions allowed for a gap between the practical use of language and theories about its significance. It was in this gap that the tract tales emerged—within a cultural context still suspicious of fiction—as representations of what divine truths looked like when lived in the modern world. The...

...-nineteenth century, as an indexical trace of the invisible truths of an object, and particularly the invisible processes that made human populations distinctive. By bringing this attention to local color’s color, Schroeder aims to move critical debates away from considerations of place-based content of local...

... narratives, Douglass and Jacobs dramatize the interplay between the objective and illusionist potential of visual technologies. By embracing and remaining skeptical of the truthful qualities of the photographic image, the fugitive notice, and the slave narrative itself, Douglass and Jacobs enact a...

... explore what recent literary and historical scholarship has largely overlooked. Harriet and John S. Jacobs, Maria Weston Chapman, Sojourner Truth, and Ellis Gray Loring appear alongside a number of largely unknown slave attendants in an essay that explores the complex ways legal discourses circulating in...

... her serialized comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For , the Bush presidency posited truth as unknowable, facts as infinitely flexible, and faith as constitutive of reality. Fun Home never mentions the president (nor any historical figure or event after the mid-1980s), but the memoir uses newly available...

... only be accepted in nine- teenth-century political discourse when their force was kept at bay by the fetishism of women’s ‘‘spontaneous intuition’’ or women’s genius. Sojourner Truth is one of the most famous examples of nineteenth- century female public speakers whose power was relegated to a type...