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... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...: Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring . By Sherry Lee Linkon . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2018 . xvii, 200 pp. Cloth, $70.00 ; paper, $24.95 ; e-book, $24.95 . Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End . By Margaret Ronda . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ...

...=hvd.hnnvwc&view=1up&seq=75&q1=ada%20clare . Yellin Jean Fagan . 2008 . The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 16 This partial picture is legible thanks to The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers (2008) project—the work of Jean Fagan Yellin...

... 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; paper...

...Sonnet Retman In this essay, Retman explores Sterling Brown’s radical use of signifying ethnography in his posthumous collection A Negro Looks at the South (2007), a work of mostly unpublished essays written in the early 1940s when Brown journeyed as a participant observer to take stock of African...

... and 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...

... . By Tim Armstrong. Cambridge, Eng.: Polity. 2005. x, 176 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95. Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction . By Philip M. Weinstein. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2005. x, 308 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $21.95. Book Reviews New World, Known World: Shaping...

..., 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...

...- vard. Since his youth in maritime Portland, Longfellow had been am- bitious to make a name for himself in letters; his biographer Lawrance Thompson shows how assiduously the youngLongfellow worked as a Bowdoin professor...

... for the empowerment of the “New Woman,” who sought to buoy her authority outside the domestic realm through professional social work and study, nor purely a method for monitoring women’s biological reproduction. Instead, the Delineator ’s exploitation of social science’s interchange with sentimentalism demonstrates...

...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...

...Christopher Newfield 2006 Modern Women, Modern Work: Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950 . By Francesca Sawaya. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. 198 pp. $42.50. The Business of America: The Cultural Production of a Post-War Nation...

...Marianna Torgovnick Duke University Press 2006 Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word . By Michael North. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2005. ix, 255 pp. $45.00. Book Reviews ‘‘A Hideous Monster of the Mind American Race Theory in the Early Republic.By...

...Alan Wald Troublemakers: Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker . By Scott William . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2012 . x , 284 pp. Cloth , $72.00 ; paper , $24.95 . American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins...