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...George C. Rogers, Jr. Ninety Six: The Struggle for the South Carolina Back Country . By Bass Robert D. . Lexington, S.C. : Sandlapper Store , 1978 . Pp. 456 . Illustrations. $12.50 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Book Reviews 531 Mr. Smith says, overmodestly...

...Derek Stanford Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 The Poets of the Nineties: A Note in Revision Derek Stanford I To speak of the poets of the 189O s as essentially modern might ap­ pear a paradox. That fin-de-siecle decade, with its contrived naughtiness, may seem to many a period...

...Louis J. Budd American Poetry in the Eighteen Nineties . By Kindilien Carlin T. . Brown University Studies , Vol. XX . Providence : Brown University Press , 1956 . Pp. xv , 223 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Book Reviews 535 thought and cultural...

...Eve Dunbar In July 2018, the New York Times reported on the remains of some ninety-five people discovered at a construction site in the Houston, Texas, suburb of Sugar Land. The archaeologists called in to identify the remains determined that they likely belonged to African American laborers who...

... the privatization of the management of water and other local services of general interest. Ninety-five percent of those voting voted against allowing a profit to be made from managing a commons. This vote was against privatization but also against the old public model, which has at this time been completely...

... of the narratives that Clare Hemmings has identified as reducing the “feminist seventies” to “seventies feminism.” Delphy's constructivist materialist conceptualization of gender belies efforts to contrast the (essentialist) seventies with the (constructivist) nineties—efforts that mark the latter as theoretically...

... ninety-five persons with The Chaos of Congress 273 whom he can disagree; then after the Senate has compromised its differences, the result goes to a House in which each mem­ ber has four hundred thirty-four people with whom he may disagree! The possibilities are enough to turn the head of an Einstein...

... and revision by comparing his earliest and latest versions of Salaman and Absal with Mr. Arberry s literal trans­ lation. The introduction uses some hitherto unpublished letters to trace the growth of Fitzgerald s interest in Persian literature. MERLE M. BEVINGTON American Poetry in the Eighteen Nineties...

... positively or negatively. We can hope that Mr. Smith and others will take up the questions left over from his most suggestive discussion. DUKE UNIVERSITY ARLIN TURNER Ninety Six: The Struggle for the South Carolina Back Country. By Robert D. Bass. Lexington, S.C.: Sandlapper Store, 1978. Pp. 456...

... literature. MERLE M. BEVINGTON American Poetry in the Eighteen Nineties. By Carlin T. Kindilien. Brown University Studies, Vol. XX. Providence: Brown University Press, 1956. Pp. xv, 223. $4.00. Professor Carlin T. Kindilien s American Poetry in the Eighteen Nineties surely achieves his announced goal...

... index of the decline of con­ fidence in our environment. Not that the youth of the nineties agreed with their parents views on religion, society, science any of the things they were beginning to be interested in; there was simply the unspoken law that parental opinion had the right of way. But the new...

... societies were organized in the late eighties, the nineties, or the first decade of the twentieth century. The National Society of Sons of the American Revolution was organ­ ized in 1887. The Colonial Dames of America and the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution followed in 1890...

... trousers, white stockings with ribbons around them, sashes, and plumes are remembered from the sixties. Sashes over the shoulders and around the body, plumes in hats, and the Indian costume of the Mohican are remembered from the nineties. One par­ ticipant tells of riding for a girl who made his costume...

... the output; and in consequence the price rapidly declined, until in the nineties it reached the level of the cost of production and caused all profits in the industry to vanish. We have seen that the high prices just after the war were the cause of the exclusive attention to cotton. The declining prices...

... distinguished New American Nation Series is that it encompasses not only the obvious change in the United States world role but also the more complex and less widely understood political and social metamorphoses. The myth of the gay nineties having long ago been exploded, Faulkner emphasizes the restlessness...

... after year our thrifty old uncle continues his big bunco game, with new customers who are so anxious to satisfy the human craving to gamble that at the present time more than ninety thousand applications for pat­ ents are on the waiting list, while probably ninety-five per cent of the applicants...

... their own talents or hired nonentities to fashion them a tailor-made part out of whole cloth. They dominated the Eng­ lish theater until well into the nineties, when Shaw asserted the rights of the dramatist by carrying on a personal war against Sir Henry Irving. History had long been preparing...

... the more complex and less widely understood political and social metamorphoses. The myth of the gay nineties having long ago been exploded, Faulkner emphasizes the restlessness and pioneering which charac­ terized hosts of Americans who were intent on reforming many aspects of social, economic...

... in society short of complete equality, he did not hesitate to present on occasion adultery without condemnation. In both his critical theory and in his practice, Garland in the early eighteen-nineties seemed to be laying the foundation of the flowering of Midwestern realism that was to come in the twentieth...

... of the drop in immigra­ tion, arrivals from Canada have decreased by ninety per cent (in other words one is entering this country for every ten only three years ago), from Mexico by ninety-seven per cent, from Germany by eighty per cent, from Ireland by ninety-six per cent, and so on. As a result...