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... 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...

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... this concern by treating the writing of national history in the late nineteenth cen- tury as a matter of literary study. Christopher Hill’s work addresses its subject from the outside, while Gregory Pfitzer tells the inside story. Hill takes a com- parative approach, as indicated by his subtitle; he...

..., $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...

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...Kate Marshall Both Writing at the Limit and Writing with Scissors explore the medial conditions for social and literary communication with refreshing attention to the complex play between media old and new. One can imagine extensions of either study through the other’s focus—the deep history...

... 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...

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... 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...

...Daniel Punday Duke University Press 2005 Daniel John Barth’s Occasional Writing: Punday The Institutional Construction of Postmodernism in The Friday Book Unlike avant-garde writing in its classic formula- tion, postmodern fiction...

...Christopher Hager © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Christopher Hunger for the Literal: Writing and Industrial Hager Change in Elizabeth Stoddard’s The Morgesons The strikingly oblique prose of Elizabeth Stoddard’s 1862 novel, The Morgesons, its...

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...Carolyn Sorisio From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry. By Mary Loeffelholz. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2004. xi, 275 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on Reading and Writing...