...Matt Bell Duke University Press 2007 Matt Black Ground, Gay Figure: Bell Working through Another Country, Black Power, and Gay Liberation In an essay that addresses James Baldwin’s recur- rent attention to the intricate...

... published the study is impressive— and the work is both engaging and intriguing—but to note the presence of ‘‘race theorizing’’ does not prove its formative influence. The original title may more appropriately indicate the contents, but the book is important even if race is not the major foundation for...

... university quickly published the study is impressive— and the work is both engaging and intriguing—but to note the presence of ‘‘race theorizing’’ does not prove its formative influence. The original title may more appropriately indicate the contents, but the book is important even if race is not the...

...Paula Rabinowitz © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Working Women, Literary Ladies: The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration . By Sylvia Jenkins Cook. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Univ. Press. 2008. 292 pp. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $24.95. Grotesque Relations: Modernist...

...Emily Klein Duke University Press 2007 Women, Money, and the Law: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Gender, and the Courts . By Joyce W. Warren. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2005. viii, 373 pp. $44.95. Belabored Professions: Narratives of African American Working Womanhood . By...

... Timothy Sweet. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. 222 pp. $45.00. Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture.By William Conlogue. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2001. 230 pp. Cloth...

... theory, and sociological texts, Hathaway’s writing is consistently clean and convincing. James R. Giles, Northern Illinois University ‘‘A Clown in a Grave Complexities and Tensions in the Works of Gregory...

... have helped him describe an aesthetic informing personal poetics and politics from Stein through this ‘‘quartet’’ to the recent work of Michael Palmer and Adrienne Rich—or, for that matter, from Hemingway’s In Our Time through...

...- 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...

...E. Shaskan Bumas Duke University Press 2001 E. Shaskan Fictions of the Panopticon: Bumas Prison, Utopia, and the Out-Penitent in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne The great utopian writers from Plato through Thomas More explained their...

... American 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...

... American 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...

... American 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...

... Mentors in Nineteenth-Century America . By Dowling David . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State Univ. Press . 2012 . 240 pp. $39.95 . Words at Work in “Vanity Fair”: Language Shifts in Crucial Times, 1914-1930 . By Banta Martha . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . 2011 . 233 pp. $95.00...

... . Translated by Willis Arthur . New York : Putnam . Weller Barry . 1978 . “The Rhetoric of Friendship in Montaigne's Essais.” New Literary History 9 , no. 3 : 503 – 23 . Laura The Work of Friendship in Nineteenth-Century Zebuhr American Friendship Album Verses...

... Interested: Elliott The Work of Historical Fantasy We live in an age of looking backward. Erika Doss (2012) has usefully coined the phrase “memorial mania” to describe the proliferation of monuments, memorials, markers, and other physical commemorations in the post-Vietnam...

...John Marsh Duke University Press 2007 John A Lost Art of Work: Marsh The Arts and Crafts Movement in Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems Our only criteria of judgment should not be whether or not a man’s actions are...

... in the Great Depression . By Susan Currell. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. 235 pp. $39.95. The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work . By Andrew Hoberek. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2005. x, 158 pp. Cloth, $57.50...

..., 332 pp. $39.95. Art and Memory in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop . By Jonathan Ellis. Hampshire, Eng.: Ashgate. 2006. viii, 208 pp. $89.95. Book Reviews By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority. By Holly Brewer. Chapel Hill: Univ...

...Leonard Cassuto 2006 To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel . By Jeff Abernathy. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. xii, 240 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95. Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930 . By Michele Birnbaum. New York...