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...Jeff Solomon Copyright © Hofstra University 2008 m Capote and the Trillings: Homophobia and Literary Culture at Midcentury Jeff Solomon I n a reminiscence published in George Plimpton’s oral history of Tru­ man Capote, Diana Trilling recounts her and her husband Lionel’s...

...Jonathan Greenberg Copyright © Hofstra University 2009 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Introduction: Darwin and Literary Studies Introduction: Darwin and Literary Studies Jonathan Greenberg...

...Christopher McVey Ethnic Modernism , by Sollors Werner , Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2008 . 336 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2009 Review Border Trouble: American Modernities, Ethnic Modernisms, and the Politics of Literary History Ethnic Modernism...

...Murray McArthur Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Symptom and Sign: Janet, Freud, Eliot, and the Literary Mandate of Laughter Symptom and Sign: Janet, Freud, Eliot, and the Literary Mandate of Laughter Murray McArthur In 1906, T. S. Eliot’s freshman year at Harvard, Pierre...

...Phyllis Lassner The Constant Liberal: The Life and Work of Phyllis Bottome , by Hirsch Pam , London : Quartet , 2010 . 296 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review Liberalizing Twentieth-Century British Literary History The Constant Liberal: The Life and Work...

...Florence M. Turcotte Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings , by Lillios Anna , University Press of Florida , 2010 . 198 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Florence M. Turcotte Crossing the Creek: The Literary...

... Literary Studies Bulletproof: Afterlives of Anticolonial Prophecy in South Africa and Beyond by Jennifer Wenzel Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 328 pages Mukti Lakhi Mangharam In 1856, in the eastern cape of South Africa, a young girl from the Xhosa tribe, Nongqawuse, went...

...Yetta Howard Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture , by Penner James , Indiana University Press , 2011 . 297 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Yetta Howard Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity...

...Abram Foley Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review , and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde , by Glass Loren , Stanford University Press , 2013 . 272 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2013 Abram Foley Literary History and its Incorporations...

...Jennifer P. Nesbitt Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics , by Kalliney Peter J. , Oxford University Press , 2013 . 336 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 Review Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture...

...Ulka Anjaria The Mahatma Misunderstood: The Politics and Forms of Literary Nationalism in India , by Shingavi Snehal . London : Anthem , 2013 . 235 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2015 Snehal Shingavi’s complex book, The Mahatma Misunderstood: The Politics and Forms...

...Andrea P. Zemgulys Copyright © Hofstra University 2000 “Night and Day Is Dead”: Virginia Woolf in London “Literary and Historic” Andrea P. Zemgulys [We] don’t want the [Hogarth] Press to be a fashionable hobby patronised and inspired...

...Robert M. Greenberg Copyright © Hofstra University 2000 Anger and the Alchemy of Literary Method in V. S. Naipaul’s Political Fiction: The Case of The Mimic Men Robert M. Greenberg . S. Naipaul’s fiction and nonfiction since the 1960s have reflected...

...Marisa Anne Pagnattaro Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 w Carving a Literary Exception: The Obscenity Standard and U ly sse s Marisa Anne Pagnattaro What did I tell you? raged Quinn. You’re damned fools trying to get away with such a thing...

...Rebecca Rauve Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 m An Intersection of Interests: Gurdjieff s Rope Group as a Site of Literary Production Rebecca Rauve A Shari Benstock and others have pointed out, Paris between the two world wars was home to a number of prominent American women...

...Jon Kertzer Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 !4I The Course of a Particular: On the Ethics of Literary Singularity Jon Kertzer I n Wallace Stevens’s poem “The Course of a Particular,” the cry of win­ try leaves provokes a shift in mood from robust assurance that “one is part...

...Cristanne Miller Literature After Feminism , by Felski Rita , Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2003 . 195 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 Ml Reviews Literary Study’s Debts to Feminism Literature After Feminism by Rita Felski Chicago: University...

...Phillip Barrish Conscience and Purpose: Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather , by Petrie Paul R. , Tuscaloosa : University o f Alabama Press , 2005 . 256 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 m Reviews Literary Realism and Social...

... in each other’s orbit, linking the Georgian mansions of Portland Place to Emperor Diocletian’s palace in Split, Dalmatia. And it puts at the center of modernism two overlooked works by Rebecca West: Harriet Hume (1929) and Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941), using these as entry points to a literary...

... opens up the genre of war literature. By specifically examining the insect figure, she also effectively greens modernism while exploring how the insect enabled modernists to understand the human subject under duress. One of Murray’s most valuable contributions for literary scholarship is the clear...