... “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...

... Economic History . New York : Russell and Russell . Wesley Charles H. 1935 . “Propaganda and Historical Writing.” Review of Black Reconstruction by Du Bois W. E. B. . Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life 13 , no. 8 : 244-46, 254 . Wilson Francille Rusan . 1996 . “ Racial...

...Carolyn Porter Carolyn Porter Are We Being Historical Yet? ^Rie lead article in a recent pmla tells us that A specter is haunting criticism the specter of a new historicism. In contrast to Marx and Engels, who proposed to publish the views of Communists themselves, so as to counter a nursery...

...Janet Staiger Copyright © 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Janet Staiger Securing the Fictional Narrative as a Tale of the Historical Real I n the first sentence of his review of The Re­ turn ofMartin Guerre,' Vincent Canby writes: This is, as they say, a true story. 2 Given con­ temporary...

...Laurence Shore Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 The Poverty of Tragedy in Historical Writing on Southern Slavery Laurence Shore It is generally accepted that the history of the South contains the elements of tragedy. Countless critics explain that the Southern Literary...

...Brian Rosenberg Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Mary Lee Settle and the Tradition of Historical Fiction Brian Rosenberg Historical fiction has for two centuries occupied a paradoxical place in the development of the novel, embodying at once the form at its most grand and most...

...Alex Roland Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience . By Kolko Gabriel . New York : Pantheon Books , 1985 . Pp. xvi , 558 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book Reviews 205 to Laurens from the back country in August...

...Arthur B. Ferguson Clarendon and the Rhetoric of Historical Form . By Brownley Martine Watson . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1985 . Pp. xvi , 239 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book Reviews 405 The Private Life made the classic...

...Thomas Lahusen Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Thomas Lahusen Socialist Realism in Search of Its Shores: Some Historical Remarks on the Historically Open Aesthetic System of the Truthful Representation of Life We proceed from the logic of the real forward movement of history...

...Alan Weinblatt Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 T. S. Eliot and the Historical Sense Alan Weinblatt I. What Is There Left To Do? Few modem poets have shouldered their way into history with a reputation more one-sided for self-confidence, experimentation, polemic or canonical...

...Richard W. Leopold The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective . By LaFeber Walter . New York : Oxford University Press , 1978 . Pp. xii , 248 . $10.95 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 BOOKS The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective...

...W. Rolfe Brown Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press 1925 Gorgo : A Great Historical Novel W. Rolfe Brown* Duke University I A personal contact with old Athens in the heyday of her glory and in the days of her waning power, a real and thrilling experience in the hard-fought battles...

...C. A. Yost Copyright © 1917 by Duke University Press 1917 Historical Truth in the Dramas of Corneille C. A. Yost Instructor in German in Williams College In practically all of his chief works Corneille has treated historical themes. In his day a drama dealing with contempo­ rary bourgeois...

...A. J. Morrison Copyright © 1918 by Duke University Press 1918 The Historical Farmer in America A. J. Morrison It is a matter of interest to observe how agriculture in America began to find its chronicle and formal organization about the time of the Revolution. As with other forms of American...

...Charles O. Paullin Copyright © 1926 by Duke University Press 1926 Historical Predictions Charles O. Paullin Washington, D. C. Man may be defined as the predicting animal, for he habitu­ ally makes predictions and asserts his belief in them. His con­ versations and writings contain forecasts...

...Newman I. White Copyright © 1921 by Duke University Press 1921 The Historical and Personal Background of Shelley s Hellas Newman I. White Trinity College Shelley s Hellas has been widely and justly praised by many critics for the beauty of its fine choruses. Otherwise, except...

...Ethel Wolfskill Hedlin Black Political Parties: An Historical and Political Analysis . By Walton Hanes Jr. New York : The Free Press , 1972 . Pp. 276 . $7.95 . Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 276 The South Atlantic Quarterly Black Political Parties...

...Burton F. Beers Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Americans in China? Some Historical Perspectives on a Contemporary Enthusiasm Burton F. Beers Americans have lately suffered a great many disappointments in their hopes for entering a newly opened China. In the wake of much...

... of movement, and he has been left a moral void. Western man finds himself facing a relentless process of historical change heading into an endless emptiness. . . . From history as the road to heaven for Condorcet we have come down to history as purgatory. DUKE UNIVERSITY HAROLD T. PARKER The Idea...

...Stebelton H. Nulle Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 The Reformer: A Historical Ephemera Stebelton H. Nulle The contemporary crisis of Western civilization is, in its profoundest aspect, the crisis of the individual. Every one of us is impli­ cated in E. H. Carr s crisp...