... native peoples. In the early twentieth century, Horace Kallen, John Dewey, Louis Brandeis, and others attempted to “naturalize” the increasing diversity of (European) immigration to the United States at the same time that they argued for “Americanizing” support for Zionist settlement. Kallen, Dewey...

... a number of key principles that set it apart from conventional state-centric frames of reference. This essay maps out the ten key principles in order to gain purchase on twenty-first-century biopolitical warfare. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 A G A I N S...

... “I​ did not lose my baby . . . My baby just died”: Twenty-­First-­Century Discourses of Miscarriage in Political and Historical Context ​Recent estimonies t from women who have miscarried call on the discursive force...

... the News (1970), it considers the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in order to reexamine the dynamics of transition between industrial and financial capitalism as they are captured in this crisis of Detroit at the end of the “American century.” It argues that struggles around labor...

...David Harvie; Keir Milburn We reread E. P. Thompson’s remarkable 1971 essay “The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century” in the light of the English riots of August 2011. Arguing against what Thompson would have called the “spasmodic view” of these riots—that they were...

...Robert A. Orsi Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Robert A. Orsi Mildred, is it fun to be a cripple The Culture of Suffering in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Catholicism the first Saturday of every month in the 1960s my Uncle Sally, who has cerebral palsy, used to go...

...Kenneth L. Parker Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Kenneth L. Parker Never on a Sunday: Why Sunday Afternoon Sports Transformed Seventeenth-Century England In the early 1980s, I was a graduate student at Cambridge University, researching a doctoral dissertation on early modem...

...Paul A. Cantor Paul A. Cantor Afterword Stoning the Romance: The Ideological Critique of Nineteenth-Century Literature And the poets lie too much. Zarathustra I regret that limitations of space prevent me from discussing the essays on which I have been asked to comment in any detail, thus forcing...

...Debra Morris Smith Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 The Idea of Inspiration in Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory Debra Morris Smith Invocation of a muse, whether one of the nine, the holy spirit, or someone of private importance to the writer, is so common in poetry...

...James H. Moorhead Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Perry Miller s Jeremiad Against Nineteenth-Century Protestantism James H. Moorhead In the more than two decades since Perry Miller s death, his scholarship has been the subject of numerous appraisals, and the last several years...

...Michael Geyer Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Michael Geyer Germany, or, The Twentieth Century as History DeLillo was outrageous but quite to the point when, in White Noise, he had Jack Gladney teach Hitler Studies at a midwestem liberal arts college. German history hinges...

...Renata Galtseva; Irina Rodnyanskaya Renata Galtseva and Irina Rodnyanskaya The Obstacle: The Human Being, or the Twentieth Century in the Mirror of Dystopia . . . one should not become so stupefied as to be­ come used to everything. Franz Kafka, The Castle T^ie landscape after the battle...

...Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Eccentricities: On Prologues in Some Fourteenth-Century Castilian Texts Rologues can be regarded as an eccentric form of commentary. Their generic eccen­ tricity, however, is part of a mild paradox: in most cases, prologues have the status of in­ trinsic...

...David Curtis Skaggs Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society . By Smith Daniel Blake . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1980 . Pp. 305 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 494 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Vitalii Makhlin Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Vitalii Makhlin Questions and Answers: Bakhtin from the Beginning, at the End of the Century The problem ofauthorship is not just the princi­ pal issue in Bakhtin s general theory ofdiscursive creativity in a speech-thinking act...

...Franco Barchiesi In twentieth-century South African history, from the consolidation of a racially hierarchical social order to the country's transition to democracy, ideologies and policies linking work to welfare have defined the precarious predicament of blackness in highly specific ways...

...Joachim T. Baer Twentieth-Century Russian Drama . By Segel Harold B. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1979 . Pp. x , 502 . $27.50 (paper-back $12.00 ). Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 110 The South Atlantic Quarterly Hugh Hunt: The strength...

...Robert Hemenway Propaganda and Aesthetics: The Literary Politics of Afro-American Magazines in the Twentieth Century . By Johnson Abby Arthur Johnson Ronald Maberry . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press , 1979 . Pp. 248 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1980 by Duke University...

...Alistair M. Duckworth The Impossible Observer: Reason and the Reader in 18th-Century Prose . By Uphaus Robert W. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1979 . Pp. 160 . $14.00 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 237 Thackeray s Canvass...

...Edwin H. Cady The Early Lives of Melville: Nineteenth-Century Biographical Sketches and Their Authors . By Sealts Merton M. Jr. Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press , 1974 . Pp. xiii , 280 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 268 The South...