...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...

...Drew Lopenzina Nineteenth-century Pequot minister William Apess has appeared to many readers over the years as a Native American figure who fully assimilated into the expectations of the dominant culture, his role as Christian minister placing an insuperable distance between him and the traditions...

...H. Collin Messer © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape . By Charles S. Aiken. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2009. xiii, 283 pp. $34.95. Global Faulkner . Ed. Annette Trefzer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi...

... the individual to God. By focusing on the entwined figures of John Cotton, Roger Williams, and Anne Hutchinson, Kaufmann contextualizes the interrelation of institution- alism and individualism, clearly showing how...

...Michelle Burnham Duke University Press 2000 Michelle Merchants, Money, and the Economics of Burnham ‘‘Plain Style’’ in William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation 6218 American...

.... Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2001. xiv, 166 pp. $35.00. Subversive Voices: Eroticizing the Other in William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. By Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press. 2001. xiii, 183 pp...

... Center: William Carlos Williams, John Dewey, and American Cultural Politics. By John Beck. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2001. xii, 202 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $19.95. Making Something Happen...

... and the subject of slavery as major components of romanticism. While McBride looks at works by Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Lloyd Garrison, his treatment of several British texts, particularly his informative, elegant read- ing of Maria Edgeworth’s ‘‘The Grateful Negro contributes...

... Book Reviews White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour: William Brown’s African and American Theater.By Marvin McAllister. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2003. x, 239 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95. Theatre, Society...

...Robert K. Nelson; Kenneth M. Price Duke University Press 2001 Robert K. Debating Manliness: Thomas Wentworth Nelson and Higginson, William Sloane Kennedy, and the Kenneth M. Question of Whitman Price In 1908 William Sloane Kennedy, one of Walt Whit- man’s...

...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...

... and using the ghostlike imagery to suggest their doomed nature. Bergland also discusses the works of Mary Rowlandson, Charles Brockden Brown, Philip Freneau, Washington Irving, William Apess, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. In a brief conclusion, she places Leslie Marmon Silko against Stephen King. One...

... whites and Indians and using the ghostlike imagery to suggest their doomed nature. Bergland also discusses the works of Mary Rowlandson, Charles Brockden Brown, Philip Freneau, Washington Irving, William Apess, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. In a brief conclusion, she places Leslie Marmon Silko against...

... examines a fertile cultural imagination surrounding the Mississippi River by way of a look at Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson; European travelers such as Frances Trollope, Charles Dickens, and William Makepeace Thackeray; and others who recog- nized the discursive, imaginative, and literal power...

... examines a fertile cultural imagination surrounding the Mississippi River by way of a look at Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson; European travelers such as Frances Trollope, Charles Dickens, and William Makepeace Thackeray; and others who recog- nized the discursive, imaginative, and literal power...

... . By Sean Ross Meehan. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2008. xi, 264 pp. $39.95. William Cullen Bryant: Author of America . By Gilbert H. Muller. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2008. ix, 410 pp. $30.00. Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples . By Michael Robertson. Princeton...

...Taylor Hagood Duke University Press 2007 Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics . By Ted Atkinson. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2006. xi, 271 pp. $39.95. William Faulkner's Legacy: “What Shadow, What Stain, What Mark.” By Margaret...

...Melanie R. Benson © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty . By Barbara Ladd. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2007. viii, 175 pp. $40.00. Journeyman's Road...

...Allen Hibbard Duke University Press 2007 The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas . By Rob Johnson. College Station: Texas A & M Univ. Press. 2006. 224 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $19.95. Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form . By Michael Hrebeniak...

...Laura H. Korobkin This essay challenges received readings of William Dean Howells’s A Modern Instance and well-established critical assumptions that associate his realist project with public male legal discourse and define it strongly against presumptively feminine rhetorical strategies like...