The Populist Turn in American Politics: A Review-Essay of Kivisto’s The Trump Phenomenon Julie Sheridan Articles, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: Mark Twain and Youth: Studies in His Life and Writings, eds. Kevin McDonnell and R. Kent Rasmussen Clair A. Sheehan Reviews Review: Mark Twain and Youth: Studies in His Life and Writings. Edited by Kevin MacDonnell and R. Kent Rasmussen (Bloomsbury, 2016) Buy here. Clair A. Sheehan University of Limerick The recent emergence... Read More...
Review: Steve Gronert Ellerhoff, Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut Miranda Corcoran Reviews Steve Gronert Ellerhoff, Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut (Routledge, 2016) Buy here Miranda Corcoran University College Cork Steve Gronert Ellerhoff’s inci... Read More...
Review: Stephen Matterson, Melville: Fashioning in Modernity Johanna Hoorenman Reviews Review: Stephen Matterson, Melville: Fashioning in Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2014) Johanna Hoorenman Utrecht University Melville: Fashioning in Modernity is an exploration of Melville’s representations of s... Read More...
Review: Edward Clarke, The Later Affluence of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens Karolina Vancurová Reviews Review: Edward Clarke, The Later Affluence of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens Karolina Vancurová Charles University, Prague Edward Clarke’s The Later Affluence of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens offers ... Read More...
Review: Dara Downey, American Women’s Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age Ann Patten Reviews Review: Dara Downey, American Women's Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age Ann Patten Critics of American gothic fiction often have noted something exceptional about U.S. horror. A common position h... Read More...
Review: Lee M. Jenkins, The American Lawrence Gillian Groszewski Reviews Review: Lee M. Jenkins, The American Lawrence Gillian Groszewski Lee M. Jenkins’s The American Lawrence is an arresting book. The title is printed in a stylised font that invokes the ‘Wanted’ posters of J... Read More...
Review: A Journey Through American Literature, Kevin J. Hayes Clare Hayes-Brady Reviews Review: Kevin J. Hayes, A Journey Through American Literature, Kevin J. Hayes (Oxford: OUP, 2012) Clare Hayes-Brady University College Dublin A blurb on the back cover of Kevin J. Hayes’s A Journey Through A... Read More...
Review: Lawrence P. Jackson, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 Gavan Lennon Reviews Lawrence P. Jackson, The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011.) Gavan Lennon University... Read More...
Review: Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960 Hanna Bingel Reviews Amy Hungerford, Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010) Hanna Bingel Queen’s University, Belfast In recent years there has been a... Read More...
Review: Desirée Henderson, Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870 Dara Downey 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: Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s Irreverent Apparition Donna Maria Alexander Reviews Review: Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López (eds), Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s Irreverent Apparition Donna Maria Alexander University College Cork In 2001, Alma López’s digital collage, Our Lady a... Read More...
Review: Edward Ragg, Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction Alex Runchman Reviews Review: Edward Ragg, Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) $135 262 pp Alex Runchman Trinity College Dublin The question of abstraction in Wallace St... Read More...
Review: Arthur Drooker, American Ruins (New York and London: Merrell, 2007) Kit Fryatt 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 Reviews Wai Chee Dimock, Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006)
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