...Kent Puckett This essay asks why Alice's Adventures in Wonderland would feature something as practically political as a caucus. After nearly drowning in Alice's tears, the Dodo suggests to her and other animals “that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.” In order to figure out what...

... noted the significance for the novel, for American letters, and for literary and critical studies, even as black women writers like Morrison, Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, and Gayl Jones—together with a rising body of black feminist scholars and critics—had been engaged...

...Catherine Fung Monique Truong's 2003 novel The Book of Salt is a fictionalized story of a gay Vietnamese chef who, while working in the household of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, briefly meets Paul Robeson and Ho Chi Minh. Rather than assume that the inclusion of historical persons...

...Gene Andrew Jarrett I examine the political value of The Wind Done Gone (2001), Alice Randall's parody of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936), according to the 2001 court case SunTrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin Company . Houghton Mifflin's defense of Randall's novel from the Stephens...

... in the aftermath of Henry’s death. In their thriv- ing company he has encountered two startling works of art by Alice, the seemingly mad slave who was the first to get away. Both artworks are acts of memory. The first is a “kind of map of life of the County ofM anchester. . . . There are no people...

... in examining such a wide range of authors (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Marge Piercy, Paule Marshall, Alice Childress, Judith Merrill, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Ray Bradbury, Ira Levin, Joanna Russ, David Wojnarowicz, Joan Didion, Catherynne Valente, and Lucy Ellmann, among many others) is to reveal how...

... Neale Hurston, Sarah Barnwell Elliott, Ellen Douglas, Flannery O'Connor, Grace Paley, Eudora Welty, Alice Walker, Carson McCul- lers, Ellen Gilchrist, Caroline Gordon, Harper Lee, Margaret Mitchell, Lillian Smith-and by women who write about the South--such as Toni Morrison, Sherley Ann Williams...

... for Alice to put her naked body into evidence, women of ambiguous racial heritage—even those of aristocratic station who adhered closely to contemporary norms of etiquette—were susceptible to being publicly recognized only as sexual objects. Larsen's novel crucially exploits this misrecognition by bringing...

... and Society in Industrial England: Church, Chapel, and Social Change, 1740–1914 . London: Longman, 1976 . Keymer , Thomas . Introduction. Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded . Ed. Keymer Thomas and Wakely Alice. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001 . vii –xxxiv. ———. Richardson's Clarissa and the Eighteenth...

.... Dana’s genealogical quest while she visits nineteenth-century Maryland as a slave is any- thing but heroic. Playing out the paradox typical of time-travel narratives, Dana must ensure her own future birth by abetting Rufus’s rape of Dana’s enslaved forebear Alice. Far from grounding present-day...

... Biographie . München: Verlag C. H. Beck, 1997 . Schiller , Georg . Symbolische Erfahrung und Sprache im Werk von Gertrude Stein . Düsseldorfer Beiträge aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1995 . Stein , Gertrude . The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas...

... not know from what part of Africa my African ancestors came and so I claim[ed] the continent,” Alice Walker confessed years later in Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992). The contradictory temporality of Walker's recovery of her African ancestry arguably fits Tillet's critique: “I suppose I have created...

... choice theory. Yet Carroll's well-known literary works have not been examined alongside his surprisingly influential election-choice writings. Puckett remedies the omission—reading, for instance, the “caucus race” in Alice alongside Carroll's “Suggestions as to the Best Method of Taking Votes, Where...

... P, 2005). KITA BARNARD is Associate Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Great Dqression and the Culture of Abundance (Cambridge UP, 1995) and Apartheid...

..., caring for her mother and their new ward, Alice Mildmay.17 Susan is neither killed off nor institutionalized, as she might be in a more formulaic sensation novel, but neither 16 Jones asserts that Oliphant uses sensational “elements half-heartedly; they are necessary to the generic...

... Moral Maiden Husband Hunter Hesitating Heroine Can You Forgive Her? Alice Vavasor Glencora MacCluskie Miss Mackenzie Margaret Mackenzie The Claverings Fanny Clavering Julia Brabazon Florence Burton The Belton Estate Clara Amedroz (initially) Clara Amedroz (in the end...

... into two parts, African American women writers and Caribbean women writers. Within each, Rody presents a series of readings on canonical and non-canonical authors with entire chapters devoted to some writers, sections, para- graphs and brief plot summations for others. These include Alice Walker...

... of sectional and racial divide fictions brought down as close to the present as Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone , Buell wonders how the Southwest or gringo/Latino border might organize new candidates for the Great American Novel, and he is off and running again, with significant pauses for Cormac...

..., this gesture inevitably backfires. “In the case of Hawthorne, whose earlier ‘Alice Doane's Appeal’ was so disparaging of its own sensational effects, it might even be claimed that such power was attributed to magazine fiction precisely in the act of its renunciation” (126). There is a beautiful coherence...