...- pend in one way or another on this foundation we call ‘experience’ ’’ (13). It is deceptive because there is nothingsimple about Egan’s aims or his work. He is concerned with havingus reshape our thinkingabout the ubiquitous...

... preaching practices. My only complaint with this collection is that I found myself wanting to know more about how the respondents in the original conference felt about these works. Short sections of commentary after each essay would have ac- cented the already tantalizingly thick way in which...

... preaching practices. My only complaint with this collection is that I found myself wanting to know more about how the respondents in the original conference felt about these works. Short sections of commentary after each essay would have ac- cented the already tantalizingly thick way in which...

... preaching practices. My only complaint with this collection is that I found myself wanting to know more about how the respondents in the original conference felt about these works. Short sections of commentary after each essay would have ac- cented the already tantalizingly thick way in which...

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.... 256 pp. Cloth, $59.95; e-book, $59.95. Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace: Writers and Mentors in Nineteenth- Century America. By David Dowling. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2012. 240 pp. $39.95. Words at Work in “Vanity Fair”: Language Shifts in Crucial Times, 1914–1930...

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