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Review: David Silkenat, <i>Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South</i>
Posted inIssue 14 2025 Reviews

Review: David Silkenat, Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South

Posted by Oran Patrick Kennedy
Review: Kelly Ross, <i> Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in United States Literature </i>
Posted inIssue 13 2024 Reviews

Review: Kelly Ross, Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in United States Literature

Posted by Andrew Taylor
Review: Jonathan A. Cook, <i>Neither Believer Nor Infidel: Skepticism and Faith in Melville’s Shorter Fiction and Poetry</i>
Posted inIssue 13 2024 Reviews

Review: Jonathan A. Cook, Neither Believer Nor Infidel: Skepticism and Faith in Melville’s Shorter Fiction and Poetry

Posted by Zach Hutchins
Review: Robin M. Morris, <i>Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right</i>
Posted inIssue 13 2024 Reviews

Review: Robin M. Morris, Goldwater Girls to Reagan Women: Gender, Georgia, and the Growth of the New Right

Posted by Sarah Curry
Review: Kate Fama and Jorie Lagerway, <i>Single Lives: Modern Women in Literature, Culture and Film</i>
Posted inIssue 13 2024 Reviews

Review: Kate Fama and Jorie Lagerway, Single Lives: Modern Women in Literature, Culture and Film

Posted by Dearbhaile Houston
Review: Mary Burke, <i>Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History</i>
Posted inIssue 13 2024 Reviews

Review: Mary Burke, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History

Posted by Jack Heeney
Review: John Lahr, <i>Arthur Miller: American Witness</i>
Posted inIssue 12 2023 Reviews

Review: John Lahr, Arthur Miller: American Witness

Posted by Ciarán Leinster
Review: Robert Collins, <i>Noraid and The Northern Ireland Troubles, 1970-1994</i>
Posted inIssue 12 2023 Reviews

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

Posted by Melissa L. Baird
Review: Brian Yothers, <i>Melville’s Mirrors: Literary Criticism and America’s Most Elusive Author</i>
Posted inIssue 12 2023 Reviews

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

Posted by Sebastian Tants-Boestad
Review: Charles L. Chavis Jr., <i>The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State</i>
Posted inIssue 12 2023 Reviews

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

Posted by Guy Lancaster
Review: Warren Eugene Milteer, Jr. <i>Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South </i>
Posted inIssue 12 2023 Reviews

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

Posted by Nik Ribianszky
Review: Baumgartner, <i>South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War</i>
Posted inIssue 11 2022 Reviews

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

Posted by Laura Gillespie
Review: Katherine Manthorne, <i>Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex.</i>
Posted inIssue 11 2022 Reviews Uncategorized

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

Posted by Henry Martin
Review: Austenfeld, ed., <i>Robert Lowell in a New Century</i>
Posted inIssue 11 2022 Reviews

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

Posted by Gillian Groszewski
Review: Wills, <i>Gamer Nation: Video Games and American Culture</i>
Posted inIssue 11 2022 Reviews

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

Posted by Eoin O'Callaghan
Review: Sawires-Masseli, <i>Arab American Novels Post-9/11: Classical Storytelling Motifs against Outsidership</i>
Posted inIssue 11 2022 Reviews

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

Posted by Courtney Mullis
Review: Christian Schmidt, <i>Postblack Aesthetics: The Freedom to be Black in Contemporary African American Fiction</i>.
Posted inIssue 10 2020-21 Reviews

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

Posted by Jan Benes
Review: Wickham Clayton, ed, <i>Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film</i>
Posted inIssue 10 2020-21 Reviews

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

Posted by Noel O'Shea
Review: Leopold Lippert, <i>Performing America Abroad</i>
Posted inIssue 10 2020-21 Reviews

Review: Leopold Lippert, Performing America Abroad

Posted by Ciarán Leinster
Review: Kloeckner, Knewitz, and Sielke, eds., <i>Knowledge Landscapes North America</i>
Posted inIssue 10 2020-21 Reviews

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

Posted by Natalia Kovalyova
Review: T. H. Breen, <i>The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America</i>
Posted inIssue 10 2020-21 Reviews

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

Posted by Michael J. Griffin
The Populist Turn in American Politics: A Review-Essay of Kivisto’s <i>The Trump Phenomenon</i>
Posted inArticles Issue 10 2020-21 Reviews

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

Posted by Julie Sheridan
Review: Andy Connolly, <i>Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition</i>
Posted inIssue 10 2020-21 Reviews

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

Posted by Dolores Resano
Review: Ernst, Matter-Siebel, and Schmidt, eds., <i>Revisionist Approaches to American Realism and Naturalism</i>
Posted inIssue 10 2020-21 Reviews

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

Posted by Alan Gibbs
Review: Bernice M. Murphy, <i>Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction</i>
Posted inIssue 10 2020-21 Reviews

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

Posted by Yves Laberge
Review: Michael J. Lewis, <i>City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning</i>
Posted inIssue 8 2018-19 Reviews

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

Posted by Jan Frohburg
Review: Jesús Blanco Hidalga, <i>Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community: Narratives of Salvation</i>
Posted inIssue 8 2018-19 Reviews

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

Posted by Jennifer Daly
Review: Eileen T. Lundy and Edward J. Lundy, eds., <i>Practicing Transnationalism: American Studies in the Middle East</i>
Posted inIssue 8 2018-19 Reviews

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

Posted by Marcus Walsh-Führing
Review: Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, <i>After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism</i>
Posted inIssue 8 2018-19 Reviews

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

Posted by Tomás Dodds
Review: Laurence W. Mazzeno and Sue Norton, eds., <i>European Perspectives on John Updike</i>
Posted inIssue 8 2018-19 Reviews

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

Posted by Daniel Picker
Review: Joe B. Fulton, <i>Mark Twain Under Fire</i>
Posted inIssue 8 2018-19 Reviews

Review: Joe B. Fulton, Mark Twain Under Fire

Posted by Clair A. Sheehan
Review: Samuele F. S. Pardini, <i>In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans and Modernity</i>
Posted inIssue 8 2018-19 Reviews

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

Posted by Christian O'Connell
Review: Marc Leeds, <i>The Vonnegut Encyclopedia</i>
Posted inIssue 7 2018 Reviews

Review: Marc Leeds, The Vonnegut Encyclopedia

Posted by Miranda Corcoran
Review: Catrin Gersdorf and Juliane Braun, eds., <i>America After Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment</i>
Posted inIssue 7 2018 Reviews

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

Posted by Sarah Cullen
Review: Jon C. Teaford, <i>The Twentieth-Century American City: Problem, Promise and Reality</i>
Posted inIssue 7 2018 Reviews

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

Posted by Lucy Cheseldine
Review: Stephen Burt, <i>the poem is you: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them</i>
Posted inIssue 6 2017 Reviews

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

Posted by Philip McGowan
Review: Kevin Mac Donnell and R. Kent Rasmussen, eds., <i>Mark Twain and Youth: Studies in His Life and Writings</i>
Posted inIssue 5 2016 Reviews

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

Posted by Clair A. Sheehan
Review: Steve Gronert Ellerhoff, <i>Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut</i>
Posted inIssue 5 2016 Reviews

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

Posted by Miranda Corcoran
Melville: Fashioning in Modernity
Posted inIssue 5 2016 Reviews

Review: Stephen Matterson, Melville: Fashioning in Modernity

Posted by Johanna Hoorenman
Review: Edward Clarke, <i>The Later Affluence of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens</i>
Posted inIssue 4 2015 Reviews

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

Posted by Karolina Vancurová
Review: Dara Downey, <i>American Women’s Ghost Stories in the Gilded Age</i>
Posted inIssue 4 2015 Reviews

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

Posted by Ann Patten
Review: Lee M. Jenkins, <i>The American Lawrence</i>
Posted inIssue 4 2015 Reviews

Review: Lee M. Jenkins, The American Lawrence

Posted by Gillian Groszewski
Review: Kevin J. Hayes, <i>A Journey Through American Literature</i>
Posted inIssue 3 2014 Reviews

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

Posted by Clare Hayes-Brady
Review: Lawrence P. Jackson, <i>The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960</i>
Posted inIssue 3 2014 Reviews

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

Posted by Gavan Lennon
Review: Amy Hungerford, <i>Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion Since 1960</i>
Posted inIssue 3 2014 Reviews

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

Posted by Hanna Bingel
Review: Desirée Henderson, <i>Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870</i>
Posted inIssue 3 2014 Reviews

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

“[…] 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).
Posted by Dara Downey
Review: Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López, eds., <i>Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López’s Irreverent Apparition</i>
Posted inIssue 3 2014 Reviews

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

Posted by Donna Maria Alexander
Review: Edward Ragg, <i>Wallace Stevens and the Aesthetics of Abstraction</i>
Posted inIssue 3 2014 Reviews

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

Posted by Alex Runchman
american ruins
Posted inIssue 1 2009 Reviews

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

Review: Arthur Drooker, American Ruins (New York and London: Merrell, 2007)
Posted by Kit Fryatt
Review: Wai Chee Dimock, Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time
Posted inIssue 1 2009 Reviews

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

Wai Chee Dimock, Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006)
Posted by Justin Quinn
Review: Samuel Fisher Dodson, Berryman’s Henry
Posted inIssue 1 2009 Reviews

Review: Samuel Fisher Dodson, Berryman’s Henry

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

Review: Stephanie Rains, The Irish-American in Popular Culture

Stephanie Rains, The Irish-American in Popular Culture
Posted by Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh
Review: Stephen Mennell, The American Civilizing Process
Posted inIssue 1 2009 Reviews

Review: Stephen Mennell, The American Civilizing Process

Stephen Mennell, The American Civilizing Process
Posted by David Ryan
Review: Lee Marshall, Bob Dylan: The Never Ending Star
Posted inIssue 1 2009 Reviews

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

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