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... / sheet 187 of 252 The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors. By William Dean Howells et al. Dur- ham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. li, 341 pp. Paper, $18.95. In early 1906, William Dean Howells approached...

...: Nineteenth-Century Sea Narratives and American Identity . By Robin Miskolcze. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2008. xxii, 220 pp. $45.00. “Whole Oceans Away”: Melville and the Pacific . Ed. Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2007. xxi, 350 pp. $65.00...

... a tribe,” he laments, “my whole life I’ve been on the run” (Rockstar 2018 ). On June 28, 1898, President William McKinley signed the Curtis Act into law. This legislation was otherwise referred to as “an act for the protection of the people of the Indian Territory, and for other purposes.” Other...

... an overwhelming desire to amputate one of more of their perfectly healthy limbs. Among the things that make the condition particularly mysterious is the challenge it offers to our standard conception of what constitutes a “whole” body. Two of O'Connor's most celebrated stories, “The Life You Save May Be Your Own...

... cosmopolitan conviviality in The Left Hand of Darkness (1969). The essay concludes by suggesting that science fiction's celebrations and condemnations of imperial discourse and practice enable the genre as a whole to transcend its own oft-complicit engagements with empire and to generate an imaginative space...

... of college education as such. Campus novels like Owen Johnson's Stover at Yale (1912) are committed to the belief that the corruption of sports by business interests emblemizes the corruption of the university as a whole, while the ideal of sports uncorrupted by business represents the ideal...

... from other natural materials, and it has historically raised new questions, prospects, and possibilities about the natural world as a whole. Yet the many prospects coral raised across centuries and cultures, I argue, share a central feature that enthralled antebellum Americans: coral provoked...

... complicated to house individual and whole identities. Through such representations of sexuality, ethnicity, and race, Islas presents hybridity as both a (sometimes violently) lived experience and a conscious literary aesthetic. The essay ends by discussing how Islas places his readers in a psychic space where...

... that the realization of democracy as a form of governance (consensus democracy) occurs by substituting the rule of a part for the whole, which violently forces democracy’s constitutive figures to conform to and negotiate its organizing logics. Nari Ward’s We the People (2011) allegorizes this inherent tension...

... complicates notions of transparent relationships among the parts and wholes of periodicals and national collectives. The complex serial publication of Blake performs the logic of what Martin Delany called elsewhere the “nation within the nation.” The conversation among various texts within texts—what I call...

... as a whole functions as an allegorical critique of precisely the oriental despotism decried as the corrupt source of stagnant expenditure of which the white elephant serves as a prominent symbol. Finally, he examines the relationship between Siam and America in George Bacon's Siam, the Land of the White...

... rituals and stories from the past) find a sense of wholeness where fragmentation once presided. Beardslee sweeps through the field of folklore, from women’s cultural tradition in Whitney Otto’s How to Make...

... : the “social subject itself,” he playfully observes, “is the dubious hero of this chapter” (61). For Garrett, the true situation of early US politics is located somewhere between the individual and the collective—in the dialectical movement between part and whole that Garrett associates with the episode...

...- ence in women’s novels, female physicians, and, finally, the relation of sci- ence to spiritualism and other religious developments in the late nineteenth century. The text as a whole is unified by Baym’s unaffected and straight...

... izing definition, Beardslee makes a rigorous analysis of the central characters in eight texts who (through rituals and stories from the past) find a sense of wholeness where fragmentation once presided. Beardslee sweeps through...

... of Emerson he finds least satisfactory. Finally, in a sentence that calls into question his long-desired ability to enact Emerson’s “Man Think- ing” as “the whole man” who might by his very completion transfigure the “state of mind” of his audience, Matthiessen wonders if “the self- knowledge which I...

... the laws of ethics. Thus, ‘the whole is greaterthanitspartreactionisequaltoactionandmanythelike propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense’’ N 35). In physics, to translate designates a movement ‘‘from one point or place to anothersometimes as distinguished from a reciprocat...

... and the Inclusive Imagination. By Ross Labrie. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2001. ix, 263 pp. $34.95. Emphasizing the providential and the ecstatic, and sensitive to ontological unity and wholeness...

... the short-story cycle as a genre in which individual chapters can be read and even published as stand-alone stories that take on additional layers of mean- ing, however, when read within the context of the whole volume. While...