... and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789–1814 . By Karen A. Weyler. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2005. x, 269 pp. Cloth, $41.00; paper, $21.00. The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830 . By Martha Tom-have Blauvelt. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2007. xi, 275 pp...

... Press . 2013 . xx , 290 pp. Paper , $45.00 ; e-book , $45.00 . Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature . By Day Sarah K. . Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2013 . i , 240 pp. $55.00 . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...Michael Maguire Abstract This essay illuminates the history of what David Foster Wallace dubbed the “conspicuously young” novelist (CYN), drawing on a series of brief case studies (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Radiguet, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Sylvia Plath, and James Baldwin...

..., ‘is Samedi, and you have slain my cousin’s horse . . . ’” (Gibson 1987 : 293). In an earlier part of the plot, Papa Legba, the master of the roads, takes over the body of a young American girl named Angie Mitchell so he can propose a deal to her bodyguard, Turner: “This child for my horse, that she may move...

...James H. Cox jhcox@austin.utexas.edu Self-Determined Stories: The Indigenous Reinvention of Young Adult Literature . By Mandy Suhr-Sytsma . East Lansing : Michigan State Univ. Press . 2018 . xx, 202 pp. Paper, $29.95 ; e-book available. A New Continent of Liberty...

...Michael Warner; Natasha Hurley; Luis Iglesias; Sonia Di Loreto; Jeffrey Scraba; Sandra Young Duke University Press 2001 Michael Warner A Soliloquy ‘‘Lately Spoken at the with African Theatre Race and the Natasha Hurley, Public Sphere in New York...

...Elizabeth Young Book Reviews Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African American Literature. Ed. Michael J. Drexler and Ed White. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell Univ. Press. 2008. vii, 176 pp. Paper, $25.00. Piety and Dissent: Race, Gender, and Biblical Rhetoric in Early...

...Cynthia Young Duke University Press 2007 At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing . By Wendy W. Walters. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. xxv, 177 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. Demonic Grounds: Black Women and The Cartographies of Struggle...

...Cynthia A. Young 838  American Literature sexualities” that defy the hetero-reproductive norms of pedigree animal breed- ing and bourgeois domesticity. The final section on “meat narratives” takes us from rebellious pig stories (including George Orwell’s Animal Farm [1945] and the movie...

... Party and the “Young America” movement seemed to take a sinister turn with the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and Melville grew disillusioned with Young America's literary side following the poor reception of Moby-Dick (1851). Melville's fourth novel, Redburn (1849), though regarded as one of his secondary...

... imitative and derivative aesthetics with sympathy and intersubjectivity, the essay argues that texts created by and for young women can offer critical insight into the twinned processes of individuation and deindividuation at the heart of “republican” theories of the subject. That is, it contends...

... for a rising generation of Chicana activists, highlighting how the absence of young men from Mexican families laid bare the gender dynamics of family life. Véa's and Santana's novels revise familiar narratives of the Chicana/o movement, calling attention not to the way the movement was parochial and sexist...

... and the temporality of kinship lines more broadly. Bechdel represents this queering of generation and kinship as a constituent part of the young Alison’s coming-of-age as a queer comics artist; this temporal reworking simultaneously makes possible a queer reparative web of affiliation. Building on Eve Kosofsky...

... of decisive transition in America, as a model of commodity-centered competitive capitalism yielded to the regime of corporate finance. The young academic economists of the period and their literary counterparts explained the economic landscape in much the same way and to many of the same ends. Both began...

...Nancy McCabe Octavia E. Butler . By Gerry Canavan . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2016 . xvii, 225 pp. Cloth, $95.00 ; paper, $22.00 ; e-book, $19.80 . How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Process of Textual Production . By John K. Young . Iowa City...

...Philip Gould By Elizabeth Young. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 1999. xvi, 389 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $18.00. 2000 874 American Literature their respective black female realities. While the chapter ends on a strong...

...Shelley Streeby Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia . By Cremins Brian . Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2016 . xiv, 203 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Frank Miller’s Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism . By Young Paul . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2016...

... Disarming the Nation: Women’s Writing and the American Civil War. By Elizabeth Young. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 1999. xvi, 389 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $18.00. The literature of the American Civil...

... , employs postmodern feminist theories to analyze primarily young adult literature focusing on girls. Emily Westkaemper’s book, Selling Women’s History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture , undertakes an ambitiously wide scope in its aims to understand how key women...

... a young sexual predator or because she has crossed a line with her brothers that leaves her unable to differentiate between sexual fantasy and unhealthy sexual practices. Wendy’s fantasies are the most suspect, as they are presented as real. Alice has become an addict, and we are often invited to read...