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Review: Leopold Lippert, Performing America Abroad

Ciarán Leinster
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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
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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
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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, 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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Review: Stephen Matterson, Melville: Fashioning in Modernity

Johanna Hoorenman
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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
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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
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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
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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: A Journey Through American Literature, Kevin J. Hayes

Clare Hayes-Brady
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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
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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
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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
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“[…] 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
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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
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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...
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Review: Arthur Drooker, American Ruins (New York and London: Merrell, 2007)

Kit Fryatt
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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
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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
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Samuel Fisher Dodson, Berryman’s Henry
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Review: Stephanie Rains, The Irish-American in Popular Culture

Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh
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Stephanie Rains, The Irish-American in Popular Culture

Review: Stephen Mennell, The American Civilizing Process

David Ryan
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Stephen Mennell, The American Civilizing Process

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

Michael Hinds
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Lee Marshall, Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star
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