...Renée Bergland 2005 Writing for Immortality: Women Writers and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America . By Anne E. Boyd. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2004. x, 305 pp. $55.00; The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789...

... separating C. P. Snow’s ‘‘two cultures however, we have left relatively un- examined the vast body of important writing that constitutes the rich tradi- tion of natural history. Fortunately, a number of accomplished recent studies...

...Mark Chiang The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American . By Song Min Hyoung . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2013 . 284 pp. Cloth , $84.95 ; paper , $23.95 ; e-book , $23.95 . Modern Minority: Asian American Literature and Everyday Life...

...John Hellmann © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam . By William V. Spanos. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2008. xx, 321 pp. Cloth, $89.50; paper, $29.95. Writing Vietnam, Writing Life: Caputo...

...Ursula K. Heise © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 The World in Which We Occur: John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and American Ecological Writing in the Twentieth Century . By Neil W. Browne. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. xiv, 224 pp. $38.50. Women Writing Nature...

..., $29.95. Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities . By Susannah B. Mintz. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. x, 251 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $21.95. Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Christopher Krentz. Chapel...

...Kate Marshall Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance . By Garvey Ellen Gruber . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2013 . x, 304 pp. Cloth , $115.00 ; paper, $31.95 ; e-book available. Writing at the Limit: The Novel in the New...

...Peter Kvidera Duke University Press 2007 Private Histories: The Writing of Irish Americans, 1900-1935 . By Ron Ebest. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame Press. 2005. xi, 319 pp. Cloth, $58.00; paper, $25.00. Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing...

... narrative structures of that era and our own. In each book, technology provides a figure for understanding literary objects and their social contexts. A skeuomorphism emerges: predigital figures such as writing and book shape our ideas about new media, and in turn computer-oriented figures...

...Leonard Tennenhouse © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System . By Michelle Burnham. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press. 2007. viii, 222 pp. Paper, $30.00. Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making...

.... Beardslee should be commended for her remarkably clear writing and her dedication to presenting a study of folk- lore that is ‘‘neither quaint nor antiquated. It is a hands-on, hearts-in living, a way to whole...

... texts posit the possibility of surviving trauma and of healing. ‘‘The liberatory narrative reminds us Mitchell writes, ‘‘that, however trau- matic, the past is memory, the past is identity, and the past is meditation’’ (149). The writer’s nearly hidden claim is that African American women’s writing...

..., then wrote Nature (1836), which 392 American Literature declares that ‘‘the axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics For the rest of Emerson’s life, ‘‘science permeated his thought and writing at every level, from its deepest structure to his most casual analogies’’ (4). The American Scholar...

... citizenship. In the face of such resilience, it is nevertheless good to have arguments as dis- ruptive as Kazanjian’s and as patient as Samet’s. Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827–1863. By Maureen Konkle...

.... Writing out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture.By Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2003. 422 pp. $44.95. Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary Region.By Audrey Goodman. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2002...

... supplies a useful name glossary (which would have beenhelpfulinvolume1aswell). Jason Stacy, Loyola University, Chicago Making Girls into Women: American Women’s Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity. By Kathryn R. Kent. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xi, 355 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper...

... of Literature. By Myra Jehlen. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2002. 246 pp. Cloth, $52.00; paper, $19.00. The Writing of America: Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present. By Geoff Ward. Cambridge, Eng.: Polity Press. 2002. vii, 235 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $14.99. Myra...

... Environmental Renaissance, endoskeletal 412 American Literature in Daniel Philippon’s Conserving Words. McMurry goes so far as to say that ‘‘the theory espoused here cannot possibly aim at improving practice al- though he holds out some hope in the final chapter (6). Philippon, writing for general...

... here cannot possibly aim at improving practice al- though he holds out some hope in the final chapter (6). Philippon, writing for general readers as well as academics, sets up a working frame in the intro- duction, which becomes nearly invisible in the subsequent analyses. McMurry wants...

.... of Chicago Press. 2004. 471 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $25.00. A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships be- tween Women. By Suzanne Juhasz. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2003. x, 247 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.00. An infant and mother gaze into each...