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  • “Her Happy Solitary Life”: Singleness and Queering the Norm in “Martha’s Lady” by Sarah Orne Jewett and “A New England Nun” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
  • Review: Lahr, Arthur Miller: American Witness
  • Review: Robert Collins, Noraid and The Northern Ireland Troubles, 1970-1994
  • Respectability Politics and the Culture of Dissemblance in Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Jack Hill’s Foxy Brown

Issue 12 2023

“Her Happy Solitary Life”: Singleness and Queering the Norm in “Martha’s Lady” by Sarah Orne Jewett and “A New England Nun” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

C.T. Power
Articles, Issue 12 2023
Winner of the 2020 WTM Riches Essay Prize   Introduction Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s “A New England Nun,” published in A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891), and Sarah Orne Jewett’s “Martha’s Lady,” ... Read More...

Review: Lahr, Arthur Miller: American Witness

Ciarán Leinster
Issue 12 2023, Reviews
Lahr, John. Arthur Miller: American Witness. New Haven: Yale UP, 2022. ISBN 9780300234923. £16.99 cloth. 244 pp. The cover of John Lahr’s new book on Arthur Miller, American Witness, is striking in its origi... Read More...

Review: Robert Collins, Noraid and The Northern Ireland Troubles, 1970-1994

Melissa L. Baird
Issue 12 2023, Reviews
Collins, Robert. Noraid and The Northern Ireland Troubles, 1970-1994. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2022. ISBN 9781801510189. 224 pages.  Irish Northern Aid, shortened to Noraid or INA, was a support group form... Read More...

Respectability Politics and the Culture of Dissemblance in Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Jack Hill’s Foxy Brown

Niamh Keating
Articles, Issue 12 2023
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) and Foxy Brown (1974) interrogate the politics of respectability and the culture of dissemblance, concepts that operate within a broader “theory of black women’s performance”... Read More...

Review: Brian Yothers, Melville’s Mirrors: Literary Criticism and America’s Most Elusive Author

Sebastian Tants-Boestad
Issue 12 2023, Reviews
Yothers, Brian. Melville’s Mirrors: Literary Criticism and America’s Most Elusive Author. Rochester: Camden House, 2019. ISBN 9781640140530. $24.95. 212pp. The early 1920s saw a flurry of scholarly interest ... Read More...

Review: Charles L. Chavis Jr., The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State

Guy Lancaster
Issue 12 2023, Reviews
Chavis, Charles L. Jr. The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021. ISBN 9781421442921. $29.95. 288pp.  Th... Read More...

“It was only the darkened house that could contain her”: Containing Forms in The Scarlet Letter

Georgia Walton
Articles, Issue 12 2023
The Scarlet Letter (1850) opens on the threshold of what is, arguably, the bluntest form of social containment, the prison. From the very beginning, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s narrator marks the inextricable relatio... Read More...

Review: Warren Eugene Milteer, Jr. Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South

Nik Ribianszky
Issue 12 2023, Reviews
Milteer, Warren Eugene, Jr. Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. ISBN 9781469664385. £90.52 cloth. 376pp. Warren Eugene Milteer, ... Read More...
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