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... 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...

... a frontier born of myth and nostalgia. In his introductory essay to the 1994 textbook Computerworld , “Jack In, Young Pioneer!,” Barlow captures the frontier nostalgia shared by his fellow cyberspace adherents: “I grew up resenting that the noble, essentially human, act of plunging off into unassayed...

... (147). The YA component of the analysis fades into the background in this final chapter, too. Yet Suhr-Sytsma fully succeeds in establishing the importance of young Indigenous adults and YA fiction in Native American literary studies. Hamilton’s persuasive and carefully managed argument has...

...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...

...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 © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic. By Julia A. Stern. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2010. xv, 330 pp. $45.00. Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet during the Lost Years of 1860– 1862. By Ted Genoways. Berkeley...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...” for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course on feminisms in young adult literature, with each chapter illuminating the examples under discussion. Moreover, the approach to writing and analysis is a model of how to engage in twenty-first century feminist criticism of girl-centered books. Trites cogently...

... is “Goldie: A Neurotic Woman,” by Aline Kominsky. The story maps the psychological development of a girl as she becomes a woman. Kominsky shows the relationship between girlhood and adulthood by mapping the adult face onto the young girl. She is happy as her parents’ “princess” and feels loved. As she gets...