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... in the formation of twentieth-century American modernisms. Her book American Pulp is forthcoming. Real Folks: Race and Genre in the Great Depression . By Retman Sonnet . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2011 . xiii + 322 pp . © 2013 by University of Washington 2013 Reference...

...Luke Carson © 2002 University of Washington 2002 Luke Carson is associate professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He is author of Consumption and Depression in Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukofsky, and Ezra Pound (1999). Republicanism and Leisure...

...Lukas Moe Abstract From the late 1930s through midcentury, poets in the United States reckoned with the decline of the political Left through a practice of elegy. The debates of interwar modernism shifted toward those of a postwar culture in which Depression-era aesthetics and politics came under...

... periods of depression, Cowper was a paranoid reader, unable to read without applying texts to himself. In times of recovery, he used reading as diversion, carefully distancing himself psychologically from the contemporary and classical books he read and translated. In his most successful poetry, however...

..., when he sug- gests in his autobiography that her illness, given the general label neu- rasthenia by her doctors, was, at least in its severest form, ma- nic-depression. Danger signals (headache, insomnia, a tendency for the thoughts to race) would appear when she tired herself mentally...

... detailed analyses of the novels, yet 1 was repeatedly dis- turbed by how limited they are in scope. She excludes all biographical mate- rial, and she fails to point out the interconnections between Woolfs sensi- tivi ty to “fact” and “vision” and her experiences as a manic-depressive. Also...

... “fluxions” then, and on optics, astronomy and other mathe- matically based sciences, as well as different editions of Euclid); passages in the poetry that testify to salvation through mathematics during periods of depression in the 1790s; Wordsworth’s interest in some of the physical sciences...

... world has any true answers for him. When he checks into a hotel room, he is depressed by the fact that the bellboy is an old man 2 Holden’s relationship to Allie, though less intense, is the equivalent of Buddy’s to !kymour in the several Glass family stories. 8 Another destructive...

... himself from public intrusions and to hide a new depression as his chosen identity of English seaman and writer closed on him like a cage. Stories of this period, including “Gaspar Ruiz,” “I1 Conde,” and “The Secret Sharer,” concentrate on problems of identity, pretense, and revelation (more...

... did not substitute a new religious order for a new social order, as did the later Piers Plowman tradition. There is something depressing, though not surprising, in the slowly unfolding story of the preachers of social reform who, disturbed by the popular eagerness with which...

... Hamilton Kennedy Butler was followed later by MB’s introduction to Wharton’s Undine Sprague Moffat Marvell de Chelles Moffat and others among the fascinating bad girls of literature. If arguments over the “Literary Class War” went unknown in Mid- dletown, the effects of the Depression were...

... in tension with the official culture. There may be several reasons for Pylon to have gotten through. For one, Faulkner was not known in Italy as a political or even socially themed writer, so his work may not have been subject to the same scrutiny as other Depression-era literature. 5 But the fascist...

..., depressed self. Yet Hume’s assertion of freedom from absorption is puzzling, because true belief rests on fanatic grounds if true believers jusw their beliefs by insisting that they know they are right. An objection, which I grant in the case of Hume, might be lodged to my use of the term...

... Citizen to the documentary lyric of the 1930s, which depended in many cases on poetry joined with photography. In American Modernism and Depression Documentary Jeff Allred ( 2010 : 7) focuses on texts that combine photography and text, identifying an overlooked tradition of “documentary modernism...

... walk?’ ” (p. 201). She is depressed by the fragile power of the human mind to make the body transparent. “ ‘Pathos, piety, courage-they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value’ ” (p. 149). Even before she quite reaches the caves, Mrs. Moore has...

... contrary im- pulses. First, then, Gissing was a pessimist by temperament; this was evident to all who knew him well. Ellen Gissing, the younger of his two sisters, recollected “that haunting depression which so often attacked my brother . . . that strange mental suffering so often his His friend...

... with it. In DT.Faustus, as Steane reads this play, “the force of the morality is a depressing sense that God will always cramp man’s style, that excitement, freedom, and power are not for him, and that if he stands too proudly on his own feet Heaven and Hell between them will pound the life out of him...

... with Dillingham’s predicament: he faces the depressing task of dealing with a massive body of criticism, much of which is unenlightening and repetitious. Still, valuable observations have been made from time to time, and because Dillingham fails to build on these insights, his book contributes to the criti...

..., who urges Faye to quit her job at Mrs. Jenning’s whorehouse. When Cobb tells Deeds that Mary Dawson is really Babe Bennett, ace reporter, Deeds becomes deeply depressed and wants to return home to Mandrake Falls. But when an unemployed man breaks into the mansion and threatens him...

... 393 guess. In any case, Lynch now moves on to stanza 7: “Both nuns and mothers worship images, / But those the candles light are not as those / That animate a mother’s reveries, / . . . And yet they too break hearts.” The origin of the speaker’s depression, Lynch posits, is located...