..., and English at Brown University. Coauthor (with Nancy Armstrong) of The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (1992), he is working on a book about American sentimentalism. American Literary History in the Age of Critical Theory and Multiculturalism...

...R. H. Super Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 LANDORS AMERICAN PUBLICATIONS By R. H. SUPER There are doubtless a number of ways in which one can estimate the reputation of a writer with his contemporaries...

... Garland, Stephen Crane, and Frank Norris, with Special Reference to Some European Influences, 1891-1903. By LARSAHNEBRINK. Upsala : Ameri- kanska Seminariet ; Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1950. Pp. xi + 503. $3.50. The term “naturalism” has been misused so much by American...

...Leonard Lutwack © 1954 University of Washington 1954 THE IRON MADONNA AND AMERICAN CRITICISM IN THE GENTEEL ERA By LEONARDLUTWACK The narrow moralism of America in the last quarter of the nine- teenth century, its pseudo-religion...

...), but sometimes problems are left to the stu- dent as in “Germanien” (pp. 126 ff There is no vocabulary, and of the 160 pages, only thirty are devoted to apparatus. The principle of the edition is not too much and not too little. Might this edition not prove a helpful example to our American...

..., and a pictorial section less hackneyed than most I have seen. OTTOREINERT University of Washington Enlarging the Temple: New Directions in American Poetry during the 1960s. By CHARLESALTIERI. Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press; London...

...Richard Blessing Jay Parini. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1979. xi + 203 pp. $12.50. Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 RICHARD BLESSING 30 1 Theodore Roethke: An American Romantic. By JAY...

... York : Oxford University Press, 1944. Pp. xvi + 190. $2.50. Criticism in American Periodicals of the Works of Henry James from 1866 to 1916. By RICHARDNICHOLAS FOLEY. Washington, D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1944. Pp. 169. Professor Matthiessen’s study uses fragments...

...Floyd Stovall 370 Reviews Making the American Mind: Social and Moral Ideas in the McGufley Readers. By RICHARDD. MOSIER.New York : King’s Crown Press, 1947. Pp. vii + 207. $3.00. Next to Webster’s Blueback Speller, the famous McGuffey Readers have been...

... forward to reading with pleasure in the coming years. GEORGEBORNSTEIN University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Robert Penn Wawen and American Idealism. By JOHN BURT.New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988. xi + 238 pp. $22.50...

...Birgit Brander Rasmussen Birgit Brander Rasmussen is assistant professor of American studies and ethnicity, race, and migration at Yale University. She is author of Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature (2012) and coeditor of The Making and Unmaking...

... Atlantic Double-Cross: American Literature and Bn‘tish InJZuence in the Age of Emerson. By ROBERTWEISBUCH. Chicago and London: University of Chi- cago Press, 1986. xxiii + 334 pp. $29.25. The long, shrill argument between the United States and England- “that damnable place...

...George W. Umphrey Arturo Torres-Ríoseco. New York: Oxford University Press, 1942. Pp. vii + 279. $2.25. © 1943 University of Washington 1943 240 Reviews The Epic of Latin-American Literature. By ARTUROTORRES- RfosEco. New York : Oxford University Press...

...Charles Duffy George Stuart Gordon. Prefatory Note by R. W. Chapman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1942. Pp. 119. $1.50. © 1943 University of Washington 1943 256 Reviews Anglo-American Literary Relations. By GEORGESTUART GORDON. Prefatory Note by R...

.... STEVENSON University of Richmond Shelley in America in the Nineteenth Century. His Relation to American Critical Thought and His Influence. By JULIA POWER.Lincoln, Nebraska : University Studies, Vol. XL, No. 2, 1940. Pp. vii + 225. Miss Power’s study of Shelley’s...

... American Studies. Edited by JOHN R. FREY.Urbana : University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, Vol. 46, 1959. Pp. vii + 213. $3.50, paper ; $4.50, cloth. These nine essays by eminent Schiller scholars in the United States, plus a comprehensive bibliography of books...

...E. H. Eby F. O. Matthiessen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1941. Pp. xxiv + 678. $5.00. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 E. H. Eby 655 American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman...

...Sarah Ehlers Focusing on the work of Harriet Monroe and Selma Walden, two Chicago writers who never fully identified with their literary milieus, this essay complicates the perceived divide between the Victorian and the modern, the old and the new. In his 1900 American Anthology , Monroe’s friend...

...Peter Carafiol Peter Carafiol is professor of English and American literature at Portland State University. He is author of Transcendent Reason: James Marsh and the Forms of Romantic Thought (1982) and The American Ideal: Literary History as a Worldly Activity (1991). His current...