...Ralph Aiken Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 WILD-HEART: AN APPRECIATION OF EMILY JANE BRONTE RALPH AIKEN THERE are some of us who love the somber, not the murderous or the insane of Russian barbarisms but the twilight melancholy of romantic cruelty or frustrated hopes...

...Harry R. Stevens Apron Full of Gold: The Letters of Mary Jane Megquier from San Francisco, 1849-1856 . Edited by Cleland Robert Glass . San Marino, California : The Huntington Library , 1949 . Pp. ix , 99 . $3.50. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews...

...Robert J. Patterson In this essay, I argue that Ernest Gaines’s (1971) The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman deploys black freedom struggles as points of departure to elucidate the shortcomings of what I theorize as exodus politics. I employ the phrase “exodus politics” to articulate the political...

...Annette B. Hopkins Copyright © 1925 by Duke University Press 1925 Jane Austen s Love and Freindship : A Study in Literary Relations Annette B. Hopkins Goucher College The advent of a long needed critical edition1 of Jane Austen s novels is being welcomed with deserved cordiality...

...Karen B. Mann The Life of Jane Austen . By Halperin John . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 1984 . Pp. xiii , 399 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 BOOKS The Life of Jane Austen. By John Halperin. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University...

...Benjamin Boyce Jane Austen and Mozart: Classical Equilibrium in Fiction and Music . By Wallace Robert K. . Athens : The University of Georgia Press , 1983 . Pp. x , 295 . $25.00 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Book Reviews 231 North American Indians). Recent...

...John Halperin Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Unengaged Laughter: Jane Austen s Juvenilia John Halperin Jane Austen s Juvenilia, of which about 90,000 words written in three slim quarto notebooks between 1787 and 1793 survive, are mostly farcical and satirical in nature. Some...

...Thomas F. Marshall The Federal Theatre, 1935-1939. Plays, Relief, and Politics . By Mathews Jane De Hart . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1967 . Pp. xii , 342 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 558 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Federal...

... into the vision of a universe? Mr. Gleckner s book, an admirable contribution to Byron criticism and to the history of ideas, would have attained more had it searched for the difficult answers to these questions. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL WILLIAM H. MARSHALL The Errand of Form: Art Assay of Jane...

...Howard S. Babb Jane Austen’s Art of Allusion . By Moler Kenneth L. . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1968 . Pp. vii , 233 . $7.25 . Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 434 The South Atlantic Quarterly A Newspaper History of England, 1792-1793. By Lucyle...

...Francis R. Hart Jane Austen: A Study of Her Artistic Development . By Litz A. Walton . New York : Oxford University Press , 1965 . Pp. [ xii ], 198 . $5.75 . Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 148 The South Atlantic Quarterly and the relationship between a delegate...

...Harry R. Stevens Jane Mecom, the Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin: Her Life here first fully narrated from their entire surviving Correspondence . By Doren Carl Van . New York : The Viking Press , 1950 . Pp. vii , 255 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951...

...E. Malcolm Carroll Inside Rome with the Germans . By Scrivener Jane . Foreword by C. J. H. Hayes, former United States Ambassador to Spain. New York : The Macmillan Company , 1945 . Pp. xi , 204 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 258 The South Atlantic...

...Bruce Mccullough From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad: Essays collected in memory of James T. Hillhouse . Edited by Rathburn Robert C. Steinmann Martin Jr . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1958 . Pp. ix , 326 . $5.75 . Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press...

...Merle M. Bevington Necessary Evil: The Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle . By Hanson Lawrence Hanson Elisabeth . New York : Macmillan , 1952 . Pp. 618 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews 147 the resulting book may lack the easy continuity...

...Louis J. Budd Book Reviews 403 Viola, the Duchess of New Dorp: A Biography of Viola Roseboro . By Jane Kirkland Graham. Columbia, S. C.: Jane K. Graham, 1955. 2 vols, in 1. Pp. 312 and 319. $8.50. After an early career as an actress and platform reader, Viola Rose­ boro drifted into freelance...

...Richard Helgerson Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Richard Helgerson Weeping for Jane Shore What s Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? Shakespeare, Hamlet To those who know Jane Shore, if at all, only as the "Shore s wife mentioned a few times...

...Susana M. Morris In this essay, I argue that Toni Morrison’s Love is in the tradition of texts such as Ernest Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman , Alice Walker’s Meridian , and Charles Johnson’s Dreamer in that it is a reevaluation of the civil rights movement and a meditation...

...Nellie Jane Compton Copyright © 1932 by Duke University Press 1932 JOEL McFEE, MASTER FARMER NELLIE JANE COMPTON LATELY, there have been named in my state each year, y three or four Master Farmers. They are chosen by a group of judges who consider carefully the qualifications of the men who...

...Rosemary Jane Jolly 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Rosemary Jane Jolly Desiring Good(s) in the Face of Marginalized Subjects: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission in a Global...