Studies in American Fiction back issues from September 2004:
Interpositions: Hope Leslie, women's petitions, and historical fiction in Jacksonian America.
Sep 22, 2004; ... Magawisca, springing from the precipitous side of the rock, screamed--"Forbear!" and interposed her arm. It was too late. The blow was leveled--force and direction given--the stroke aimed at Everell's neck, severed his defender's arm, and left him unharmed. This heroic moment ...
Reporting triumph, saving a nation: "interesting juxtapositions" in John W. De Forest's Civil War.
Sep 22, 2004; ... More than perhaps any other fiction of the American Civil War, John W. De Forest's 1867 novel Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty depicts warfare as an indispensable component of domestic prosperity, with veterans and civilians collaborating to realize the war's potential ...
Broer, Lawrence R. and Gloria Holland, eds. Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice.(Hemingway's Theaters of Masculinity)(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Broer, Lawrence R. and Gloria Holland, eds. Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press, 2002. xiv + 353 pp. Cloth: $39.95. Paper: $24.95. Strychacz, Thomas. Hemingway's Theaters of Masculinity. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ ....
McGurl, Mark. The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... McGurl, Mark. The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton Univ. Press, 2001. 213 pp. Cloth: $60.00. Paper: $26.95. This impressive and rewarding study analyzes the development of the "art novel" in early twentieth-century ...
Berg, Allison. Mothering the Race: Women's Narratives of Reproduction, 1890-1930.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Berg, Allison. Mothering the Race: Women's Narratives of Reproduction, 1890-1930. Urbana and Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2002. 186 pp. Cloth: $35. Located at the intersections among literary criticism, race theory, and feminist scholarship on motherhood, Allison Berg's ...
Wardi, Anissa Janine. Death and the Arc of Mourning in African American Literature.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Wardi, Anissa Janine. Death and the Arc of Mourning in African American Literature. Gainesville: The Univ. Press of Florida, 2003. 256 pp. Cloth: $55.00. Anissa Janine Wardi's Death and the Arc of Mourning in African American Literature is positioned within a growing field of ...
Brennan, Jonathan, ed. When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native American Literature.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Brennan, Jonathan, ed. When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native American Literature. Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2003. xvii + 307 pp. Cloth: $39.95. Jonathan Brennan has done Americanists a great service by putting together this collection of ten essays on ...
Shelley Streeby. American Sensations: Class, Empire and the Production of Popular Culture.(Book Review)
Sep 22, 2004; ... Shelley Streeby. American Sensations: Class, Empire and the Production of Popular Culture. xv, 384 pp., cloth $60.00, paper $24.95. In American Sensations, Shelley Streeby argues that "an understanding of the U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848) and mid-nineteenth-century empire ...