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... and Citizenship in the United States, 1860–1945 . By Olwell Victoria . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2011 . 288 pp. Cloth , $59.95 ; e-book , $59.95 . Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States . By Cahill Edward...

... that this review essay considers appeared during a very short time after the elections of 2016 but were clearly planned in advance of that shift in the political direction of the United States. Yet the intent of the current essay is not to comment on that particular moment; these books mainly concern themselves...

... most devastating moments. The study of nineteenth-century drama in the United States will likely never be easy. There are too many lost plays, ripped playbills, scratched-up promptbooks. Yet both Braun and Mielke prove that these half-lost histories can be reassembled and interpreted to the field’s...

...Dana D. Nelson Unconventional Politics: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and U.S. Indian Policy . By Janet Dean . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2016 . xii, 255. Paper, $25.95 . Archives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United...

...Blake Bronson-Bartlett Abstract This essay argues that the pencil, which became increasingly available in the United States during the antebellum decades, allowed writers to break from scriptural conventions and explore alternative selves because it afforded them the ability to write quickly...

...Keith Byerman © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States . By Christopher L. Hill. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2008. xvi, 351 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95...

.... Interior States: Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States. By Christopher Castiglia. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2008. x, 366 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. Book Reviews Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African American...

... at the Boundaries of the United States. By Claudia Sadowski-Smith. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2008. x, 187 pp. Cloth, $57.50; paper, $22.50. Book Reviews Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African American Literature. Ed. Michael J. Drexler and Ed White. Lewisburg, Pa...

... historically happened in situations where exploited workers are not just encountering art but are the ones making art—situations where the workers are artists or creative personnel. My target of analysis is a set of texts generated in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century in response to the rapid...

... United States . By Blair Amy L. . Philadelphia : Temple Univ. Press . 2012 . ix , 250 pp. Cloth , $79.50 ; paper , $29.95 . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 394  American Literature Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Literary Scholarship. By Michael...

... of Servitude in the United States . By Barbara Ryan. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2006. 246 pp. $40.00. Book Reviews Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America. By Anne Baker. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2006. 173 pp. $60.00. Traveling Women...

...Jennifer L. Brady By reconsidering the complex, dialectical relationship that existed between novels and their detractors in the antebellum United States, Brady's essay argues that antinovel commentators aimed not simply to limit the activity of novel reading but to redefine what it is and, more...

...James Dawes 2006 A Forgetful Nation: On Integration and Cultural Identity in the United States . By Ali Behdad. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. xvii, 212 pp. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $21.95. The Languages of Difference: American Writers and Anthropologists Reconfigure...

...Kinohi Nishikawa Duke University Press 2006 Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880-1980 . By Loren Glass. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 242 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. Muse in the Machine: American Fiction and Mass Publicity...

... of American natural history. Michael P. Branch, University of Nevada, Reno An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777–1880. By Paul C. Gutjahr. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press...

... in such an ancient American chronotope, Wertheimer’s argument continues, surfaced in Prescott and were finally resolved only by gradual displacement in Melville and Whitman, as the official history of the United States became...

...: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum United States . By Wilson Ivy G. . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . x, 237 pp. Cloth , $99.00 ; paper , $29.95 . Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature . By Jarrett Gene Andrew...

...Jennifer Glaser Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers . By Chametzky Jules . 2012 . Cambridge : Meredith Winter Press . $23.95 . American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States . By Weingrad Michael...

...Martin Joseph Ponce © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Queering Cold War Poetry: Ethics of Vulnerability in Cuba and the United States . By Eric Keenaghan. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2009. x, 196 pp. $39.95. Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous...

... Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States . By David Luis-Brown. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2008. ix, 340 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas . By Zita Nunes. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2008. xx, 218...