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  • Review: Milteer, Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South
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Reviews

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

Nik Ribianszky
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...

Review: Baumgartner, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Laura Gillespie
Issue 11 2022, Reviews
Baumgartner, Alice L. South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War. New York: Basic Books, 2020. ISBN 9781541617773. $32. 365pp. In South to Freedom, Alice Baumgartner explores th... Read More...

Review: Katherine Manthorne, Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex.

Henry Martin
Issue 11 2022, Reviews, Uncategorized
Manthorne, Katherine. Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex. University of California Press, 2021. ISBN 9780520355507, £27 (hardback). 352pp.  Art institutions and publishers are cur... Read More...

Review: Austenfeld, ed., Robert Lowell in a New Century

Gillian Groszewski
Issue 11 2022, Reviews
  Austenfeld, Thomas (Ed.). Robert Lowell in a New Century: European and American Perspectives. Suffolk: Camden House, 2019. ISBN 9781640140288. £71.65 (hardback). 206pp. In his introduction to Rober... Read More...

Review: Wills, Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture

Eoin O'Callaghan
Issue 11 2022, Reviews
Wills, John. Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture. Johns Hopkins UP, 2019. ISBN 9781421428703. $34.95 (paperback). 296pp.  Published on the cusp of a new console generation and reviewed, here, in a... Read More...

Review: Sawires-Masseli, Arab American Novels Post-9/11: Classical Storytelling Motifs against Outsidership

Courtney Mullis
Issue 11 2022, Reviews
Sawires-Masseli, Marie-Christin. Arab American Novels Post-9/11: Classical Storytelling Motifs against Outsidership. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. (Volume 293 of American Studies) ISBN 978-3825369217. €45 (... Read More...

Review: Christian Schmidt, Postblack Aesthetics: The Freedom to be Black in Contemporary African American Fiction.

Jan Benes
Issue 10 2020-21, Reviews
Schmidt, Christian. Postblack Aesthetics: The Freedom to be Black in Contemporary African American Fiction. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017 (Volume 256 of American Studies). ISBN 9783825374914. €45 (Hardback). ... Read More...

Review: Wickham Clayton, ed, Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film

Noel O'Shea
Issue 10 2020-21, Reviews
Wickham Clayton, editor. Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. ISBN 978-1-137-49646-1. €48 (paperback). 254pp It is only fitting, in a collection of this type, that Carol Cl... Read More...

Review: Leopold Lippert, Performing America Abroad

Ciarán Leinster
Issue 10 2020-21, Reviews
Leopold Lippert, Performing America Abroad: Transnational Cultural Politics in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. Leopold Lippert’s Performing America Abroad provides a survey... Read More...

Review: Kloeckner, Knewitz, and Sielke, eds., Knowledge Landscapes North America

Natalia Kovalyova
Issue 10 2020-21, Reviews
Kloeckner, Christian, Simone Knewitz, and Sabine Sielke, editors. Knowledge Landscapes North America. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016. Data explosions and information revolutions have made news on both sides... Read More...

Review: T. H. Breen, The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America

Michael J. Griffin
Issue 10 2020-21, Reviews
T. H. Breen, The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. That revolutions generally end very badly is a truth generally (i... Read More...

The Populist Turn in American Politics: A Review-Essay of Kivisto’s The Trump Phenomenon

Julie Sheridan
Articles, Issue 10 2020-21, Reviews
Peter Kivisto. The Trump Phenomenon: How the Politics of Populism Won in 2016. Emerald Publishing, 2017. It is a truism of recent political discourse that the United States has become a more polarized nation... Read More...

Review: Andy Connolly, Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition

Dolores Resano
Issue 10 2020-21, Reviews
Andy Connolly. Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition. Lexington Books, 2017. The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States in November 2016 has proved a happy event for fiction. Thi... Read More...

Review: Ernst, Matter-Siebel, and Schmidt, eds., Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism

Alan Gibbs
Issue 10 2020-21, Reviews
Jutta Ernst, Sabina Matter-Siebel, and Klaus H. Schmidt, editors. Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. Using “revisionist” in the title of a text is som... Read More...

Review: Bernice M. Murphy, Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction

Yves Laberge
Issue 10 2020-21, Reviews
Bernice M. Murphy. Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. Students and academics always need keywords and concise definitions for the everyday concepts they refer to,... Read More...

Review: Michael J. Lewis, City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning

Jan Frohburg
Issue 8 2018-19, Reviews
Lewis, Michael J. City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning. Princeton UP, 2016. There are rare instances when historical scholarship gains relevance in the immediate present. Michael Lewis’ book... Read More...

Review: Jesús Blanco Hidalga, Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community: Narratives of Salvation

Jennifer Daly
Issue 8 2018-19, Reviews
Hidalga, Jesús Blanco. Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community: Narratives of Salvation. Bloomsbury, 2017. Jonathan Franzen has written five novels, published a number of non-fiction collections, and i... Read More...

Review: Eileen T. Lundy and Edward J. Lundy, eds., Practicing Transnationalism: American Studies in the Middle East

Marcus Walsh-Führing
Issue 8 2018-19, Reviews
Lundy, Eileen T.,  and Edward J. Lundy, editors. Practicing Transnationalism: American Studies in the Middle East. U of Texas P, 2016. Practicing Transnationalism: American Studies in the Middle East offers ... Read More...

Review: Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism

Tomás Dodds
Issue 8 2018-19, Reviews
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera. After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism. Routledge, 2018. On the 1st of October 2018, Linda Dwire found herself in the news when she reportedly h... Read More...

Review: Laurence W. Mazzeno and Sue Norton, eds., European Perspectives on John Updike

Daniel Picker
Issue 8 2018-19, Reviews
Laurence W. Mazzeno and Sue Norton, eds. European Perspectives on John Updike. Camden House, 2018. European Perspectives on John Updike presents twelve chapters arranged in four parts. These are preceded by ... Read More...

Review: Joe B. Fulton, Mark Twain Under Fire

Clair A. Sheehan
Issue 8 2018-19, Reviews
Joe B. Fulton. Mark Twain Under Fire: Reception and Reputation, Criticism and Controversy 1851-2015. Camden House, 2018. With his latest publication, Mark Twain Under Fire, Joe B. Fulton has added significan... Read More...

Review: Samuele F. S. Pardini, In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans and Modernity

Christian O'Connell
Issue 8 2018-19, Reviews
Samuele F. S. Pardini. In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen. Dartmouth College Press, 2017. If there is one thing that we... Read More...

Review: Marc Leeds, The Vonnegut Encyclopedia

Miranda Corcoran
Issue 7 2018, Reviews
Leeds, Marc. The Vonnegut Encyclopedia. Revised and updated ed., Delacorte, 2016. The novels, plays and short stories of Kurt Vonnegut can be said to constitute a complex, interconnected fictive universe. Ch... Read More...

Review: Catrin Gersdorf and Juliane Braun, eds., America After Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment

Sarah Cullen
Issue 7 2018, Reviews
Gersdorf, Catrin, and Juliane Braun, eds. America After Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment. Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016. American Studies 270. What is the State of the Union, what the state of US-Amer... Read More...

Review: Jon C. Teaford, The Twentieth-Century American City: Problem, Promise and Reality

Lucy Cheseldine
Issue 7 2018, Reviews
Teaford, Jon C. The Twentieth-Century American City: Problem, Promise and Reality. 3rd ed. John Hopkins UP, 2016. The title of the third edition of Jon C. Teaford’s study of the American metropolis, The 20th... Read More...

Review: Stephen Burt, the poem is you: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them

Philip McGowan
Issue 6 2017, Reviews
Burt, Stephen. the poem is you: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them. The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2016. 432 pages. ISBN 9780674737877. Buy here. Over the course of any given year, I recei... Read More...

Review: Kevin Mac Donnell and R. Kent Rasmussen, eds., Mark Twain and Youth: Studies in His Life and Writings

Clair A. Sheehan
Issue 5 2016, Reviews
Mac Donnell, Kevin, and R. Kent Rasmussen, eds. Mark Twain and Youth: Studies in His Life and Writings. Bloomsbury, 2016. The recent emergence of Mark Twain’s discussion-style autobiography has helped to pre... Read More...

Review: Steve Gronert Ellerhoff, Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut

Miranda Corcoran
Issue 5 2016, Reviews
Ellerhoff, Steve Gronert. Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut. Routledge, 2016. Steve Gronert Ellerhoff’s incisive exploration of the short fiction of Kurt Vonnegu... Read More...
Melville: Fashioning in Modernity

Review: Stephen Matterson, Melville: Fashioning in Modernity

Johanna Hoorenman
Issue 5 2016, Reviews
Matterson, Stephen. Melville: Fashioning in Modernity. Bloomsbury, 2014. Melville: Fashioning in Modernity is an exploration of Melville’s representations of selfhood, identity and self-fashioning in moderni... Read More...

Review: Edward Clarke, The Later Affluence of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens

Karolina Vancurová
Issue 4 2015, Reviews
Clarke, Edward. The Later Affluence of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens Edward Clarke’s The Later Affluence of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens offers a refreshing and risky reading of these poets’ last poems... Read More...

Review: Dara Downey, American Women’s Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age

Ann Patten
Issue 4 2015, Reviews
Downey, Dara. American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Critics of American gothic fiction often have noted something exceptional about U.S. horror.  A common position holds... Read More...

Review: Lee M. Jenkins, The American Lawrence

Gillian Groszewski
Issue 4 2015, Reviews
Jenkins, Lee M. The American Lawrence. University Press of Florida, 2015. Lee M. Jenkins’s The American Lawrence is an arresting book. The title is printed in a stylised font that invokes the ‘Wanted’ poster... Read More...

Review: Kevin J. Hayes, A Journey Through American Literature

Clare Hayes-Brady
Issue 3 2014, Reviews
Kevin J. Hayes, A Journey Through American Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012. A blurb on the back cover of Kevin J. Hayes’s A Journey Through American Literature describes the book as “like chatting with a o... Read More...

Review: Lawrence P. Jackson, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960

Gavan Lennon
Issue 3 2014, Reviews
Lawrence P. Jackson, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2011. Lawrence P. Jackson’s The Indignant Generation provides a... Read More...

Review: Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960

Hanna Bingel
Issue 3 2014, Reviews
Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2010. In recent years there has been a growing interest in finding new approaches to the relationship ... Read More...

Review: Desirée Henderson, Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870

Dara Downey
Issue 3 2014, Reviews
“[…] the many genres of grief underscore the magnitude of the challenge of making death meaningful, as the unique and individual nature of loss runs up against the dominant conventions that shape memorial traditions and practices” (4).

Review: Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López, eds., Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s Irreverent Apparition

Donna Maria Alexander
Issue 3 2014, Reviews
Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López, eds., Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s Irreverent Apparition. Austin: U of Texas P, 2011. In 2001, Alma López’s digital collage, Our Lady appeared in an exhibition at... Read More...

Review: Edward Ragg, Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction

Alex Runchman
Issue 3 2014, Reviews
Edward Ragg, Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. The question of abstraction in Wallace Stevens’ poetry, and the relation that it might have with the wider world, ... Read More...
american ruins

Review: Arthur Drooker, American Ruins (New York and London: Merrell, 2007)

Kit Fryatt
Issue 1 2009, Reviews
Review: Arthur Drooker, American Ruins (New York and London: Merrell, 2007)

Review: Wai Chee Dimock, Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time

Justin Quinn
Issue 1 2009, Reviews
Wai Chee Dimock, Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006)

Review: Samuel Fisher Dodson, Berryman’s Henry

Tom Rogers
Issue 1 2009, Reviews
Samuel Fisher Dodson, Berryman’s Henry
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Review: Stephanie Rains, The Irish-American in Popular Culture

Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh
Issue 1 2009, Reviews
Stephanie Rains, The Irish-American in Popular Culture

Review: Stephen Mennell, The American Civilizing Process

David Ryan
Issue 1 2009, Reviews
Stephen Mennell, The American Civilizing Process

Review: Lee Marshall, Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star

Michael Hinds
Issue 1 2009, Reviews
Lee Marshall, Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star
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