...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...

.... These novels include Frank Yerby’s The Foxes of Harrow (1946), Ann Petry’s Country Place (1947), Zora Neale Hurston’s 397Twentieth-Century Literature 60.3 Fall 2014 397 Mollie Godfrey Seraph on the Suwanee (1947), Willard Motley’s Knock on Any Door (1947), Chester Himes’s Cast...

... in several postwar African American novels, illuminating a range of African American family forms. Ann Petry’s The Narrows (1953) and William Demby’s Beetlecreek (1950), for instance, feature adoptive and foster kinship, relying on tropes and themes that adoption scholars have identified as common...

... that share a like-minded sensibility, including work by Ann Petry, Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, and Du Bois. These and other writers produced work in the 1950s and after not primarily set in the South or concerned with documenting the evils and ironies of segregation but focused instead...

..., Eudora Welty, Mary McCarthy, Ann Petry, Shirley Jackson, Grace Metalious, and Harper Lee (whose To Kill a Mockingbird is the “white liberal novel par excellence” [323]) as well as novels of the atomic era such as Vance Bour- jaily’s The Hound of Earth, about a disaffected scientist who worked...

...). Such an approach not only generates significant new insights by demonstrating that an array of midcentury black writers, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Shirley Graham, Ann Petry, and C. L. R James, contributed to “a renewed political imagination of totalitarianism from the vantage of colonial modernity.” It also...

... . “ Structuring the Narrator’s Rebellion in To Kill a Mockingbird .” In On Harper Lee: Essays and Reflections , edited by Petry Alice Hall , 61 – 78 . Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press . Ford Lacy K. ( 2009 ). Deliver Us from Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South . New York...

... Sister Carrie or Nella Larsen’s Helga Crane, Hurston does not rest her eyes on shop windows or pine for chic goods as she moves through urban space. Neither does Hurston portray herself in the naturalist model of Ann Petry’s Lutie Johnson, engaged in a bitter struggle to dwell in the city. If anything...

.... Nightwood thus registers a historical moment when theories of physi- ology and sexuality were applied to the sanitization of urban space. In the early twentieth century, urban underworld spaces were imagined as petri dishes that bred “physical disease [and] moral depravity,” according to Henry...

... Cather drew from this article in her novel, recycling phrases as well as images. 5. My understanding of speculation and its relation to tourism is indebted to Eric Purchase’s Out of Nowhere. I am also indebted to his careful reading and feedback. In addition I would like to thank Paul R. Petrie...

... by a flaw in the self. Stein’s characters, beset by certain petri- fied habits, reveal strange forms of autonomy or esprit erupting out of an otherwise conditioned life. As Bergson sees it, comedy as a literary form spins off endless permutations on a rote pattern only to reclaim surprising moments...