...Clarence Gohdes The Notebooks of Henry James . Edited by Matthiessen F. O. Murdock Kenneth B. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1947 . Pp. xxviii , 425 . $6.00 . The James Family: Including Selections from the Writings of Henry James, Senior, William, Henry and Alice...

...Oliver W. Ferguson James Boswell: The Earlier Years, 1740–1769 . By Pottle Frederick A. . 1966 . Reprint. New York, Toronto, London : McGraw-Hill Book Company , 1985 . Pp. xviii , 606 . $24.95 . James Boswell: The Later Years, 1769–1795 . By Brady Frank . New York...

...Ed. Theory of Fiction: Henry James , edited with an Introduction by Miller James E. , published in 1972 by the University of Nebraska Press (p. xviii , $3.95 paper, $12.00 cloth) Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 448 The South Atlantic Quarterly the many...

...J. P. Brawner James Fenimore Cooper . By Grossman James . New York : William Sloane Associates , 1949 . American Men of Letters Series . Pp. x , 273 . $3.50. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 414 The South Atlantic Quarterly little inclined to needless...

...Louis J. Budd The Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper . Edited by Beard James Franklin . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1960 . Vol. I , pp. xlv , 445 ; Vol. II , pp. viii , 420 . $20.00 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Book Reviews 105...

...Joseph N. Riddel Letters of James Agee to Father Flye . By Agee James . Ed. Flye James Harold . New York : George Braziller , 1962 . Pp. 235 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 Book Reviews 449 Shaw were two different persons or rather that one...

...Louis J. Budd The Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper . Edited by Beard James Franklin . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1968 . Vol. V , pp. xi , 418 ; Vol. VI , pp. ix , 460 . $27.50 . Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Book Reviews 119...

...Terence Martin Book Reviews 155 The Battle and the Books: Some Aspects of Henry James. By Ed­ ward Stone. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1964. Pp. xi, 234. $5.00. Henry James and the Modern Reader. By D. W. Jefferson. New York: St. Martin s Press, 1964. Pp. viii, 240. $7.95. Neither of these books...

... better than its thesis. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ALEXANDER COWIE The Comic Sense of Henry James: A Study of the Early Novels. By Richard Poirier. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960. Pp. 260. $6.50. James s Later Novels: An Interpretation. By Robert Marks. New York: The William-Frederick Press, 1960. Pp...

...Christopher Freeburg In his essays, James Baldwin emphasizes that white supremacy is a historical trap, which legally and socially debases both whites and blacks. Baldwin claims, however, that if whites recognize it, they can release themselves. In reconsidering Baldwin as a spokesperson...

...James Epstein English Radicals and Reformers, 1760–1848 . By Royle Edward Walvin James . Lexington : University Press of Kentucky , 1982 . Pp. 10 , 233 . $18.50 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 476 The South Atlantic Quarterly was not fading away. Harris...

...Edwin H. Cady Critical Essays on American Literature . Nagel James , General Editor. Boston : G. K. Hall & Co. 1980 . Critical Essays on Harriet Beecher Stowe . Edited by Ammons Elizabeth . Pp. xviii , 307 . $18.50 . Critical Essays on Margaret Fuller . Edited...

... of the roman noir in the works of Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy, I will argue that we can witness a generic shift in the status of the “state of exception.” This shift concerns the relation between commodity culture, the law, woman, and the border figure of the detective, who is at once within and beyond...

...Hazel V. Carby Hazel V. Carby Proletarian or Revolutionary Literature: C. L. R. James and the Politics of the Trinidadian Renaissance ^Riis essay addresses the inadequacies of our current attempts to consider issues of cultural production across national boundaries: in particular, relations...

...John B. Gabel io6 The South Atlantic Quarterly Milton and Scriptural Tradition: The Bible into Poetry. Edited by James H. Sims and Leland Ryken. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1984. Pp. xii, 212. $19.50. In his introductory chapter Leland Ryken claims a focus for this book considerably...

...John E. Semonche Ambivalent Legacy: A Legal History of the South . Edited by Bodenhamer David J. Ely James W. Jr. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi , 1984 . Pp. x , 270 . $20.00 (cloth); $8.95 (paper). Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Book...

...Bernard Duffey The Stock of Available Reality: R. P. Blackmur and John Berryman . By Bloom James D. . Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press , 1984 . Pp. 7 , 216 . $24.50 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 204 The South Atlantic Quarterly Degree Zero, Roland...

...Merton L. Dillon Wendell Phillips: Liberty’s Hero . By Stewart James Brewer . Baton Rouge and London : Louisiana State University Press , 1986 . Pp. xiii , 356 . $35.00 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 342 The South Atlantic Quarterly Wendell Phillips: Liberty...

...Thomas D. Clark The Breckinridges of Kentucky, 1760-1981 . By Klotter James C. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1986 . Pp. x , 393 . Illus. $35.00 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book Reviews 347 tosh. The appendixes and notes throughout...