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  • Review: Brian Yothers, Melville’s Mirrors: Literary Criticism and America’s Most Elusive Author
  • Review: Chavis, The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State
  • “It was only the darkened house that could contain her”: Containing Forms in The Scarlet Letter
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Issue 12 2023

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: Chavis, 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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