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Volume 28 - Issue 2 - August 1994

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Lois Parkinson Zamora, Writing the Apocalypse: Historical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin American Fiction (Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1993. £13.95). Pp. 233. ISBN 0 521 42691 X.
John Mowat
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16 January 2009, pp. 301-302
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Kirkpatrick Sale, The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement, 1962–1992 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1993, $22.95 hardcover, $7.95 paperback). Pp. 124. ISBN 0 8090 5218 0/0 8090 1551 X.
Peter Coates
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16 January 2009, pp. 302-303
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Dale Carter (ed.), Cracking the Ike Age: Aspects of Fifties America (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1992, 118 DDK). Pp. 271. ISBN 87 7288 373 1.
Iwan Morgan
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16 January 2009, pp. 303-304
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R. D. Mullen et al. (eds.), On Philip K. Dick: 40 Articles from ‘Science-Fiction Studies’ (Terre Hante and Greencastle: SF-TH Inc., 1992, $16.45). ISBN 0 9633169 1 5.
David Seed
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16 January 2009, pp. 304-305
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Carleton Mabee, Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend (New York: New York University Press, 1993, $35). Pp. 320. ISBN 0 8147 5484 8.
Rachel Carroll
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16 January 2009, p. 306
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Michael Davitt Bell, The Problem of American Realism: Studies in the Cultural History of a Literary Idea (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993, £23.95). Pp. 256. ISBN 0 226 04201 4.
Judie Newman
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16 January 2009, pp. 306-307
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Ian F. A. Bell, Washington Square: Styles of Money (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993, $22.95). Pp. 165. ISBN 0 8057 8359 8.
Tamara Follini
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16 January 2009, pp. 307-309
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Hans Bak, (ed.), Multiculturalism and the Canon of American Culture (Amsterdam, VU University Press, 1993, £35). Pp. 374. ISBN 90 5383 018 9, NUGI 651.
David Rogers
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16 January 2009, p. 310
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Mark Wahlgren Summers, The Era of Good Stealings (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, £37.50). Pp. 390. ISBN 0 19 507503 X.
Daniel Walker Howe
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16 January 2009, p. 311
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Vernon Shetley, After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America (Durham and London, Duke University Press, 1993, £37.95 cloth, £12.95 paper). Pp. 209. ISBN 0 8223 1342 1.
Clive Meachen
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16 January 2009, pp. 312-313
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Louis J. Zanine, Mechanism and Mysticism: The Influence of Science on the Thought and Work of Theodore Dreiser (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993, $34.95). Pp. 249. ISBN 0 8122 3171 6.
Kate Fullbrook
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16 January 2009, pp. 313-314
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Michael Oriard, Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993, $29.95). Pp. 348. ISBN 0 8078 2083 0.
Neil Campbell
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16 January 2009, pp. 314-315
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Jonathan Freedman, Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism and Commodity Culture (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993, £10.95). Pp. 305. ISBN 0 8047 2178 5.
Ian F. A. Bell
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Frank Shuffelton (ed.), A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, £32/£12.95). Pp. 286. ISBN 0 19 507522 6/019 507523.
Kate Rhodes
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16 January 2009, pp. 316-317
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Debra Gold Hansen, Strained Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993, $30). Pp. 248. ISBN 0 87023 8485.
Clare Taylor
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16 January 2009, pp. 317-319
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Peter G. Boyle, American-Soviet Relations: From the Russian Revolution to the Fall of Communism (London: Routledge, 1993, £40 cloth, £12.99 Paper). Pp. 321. ISBN 0 415 02020 4, 0 415 09327 9.
Martin H. Folly
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16 January 2009, pp. 319-320
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Joel Myerson, (ed.), Emerson and Thoreau: The Contemporary Reviews, American Critical Archives, Vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, £60). Pp. 450. ISBN 0 521 38336 6.
Peter Rawlings
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16 January 2009, pp. 320-321
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Peter A. Dorsey, Sacred Estrangement: The Rhetoric of Conversion in Modern American Autobiography (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993, £30). Pp. 214. ISBN 0 271 00902 0.
Gavin Cologne-Brookes
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16 January 2009, pp. 321-322
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Kent C. Ryden, Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing and the Sense of Place (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993, $39.95, $17.95 paper). Pp. 326. ISBN 0 87745 406 X, 0 87745 414 0.
Jane Goldman
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16 January 2009, pp. 322-323
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Philip D. Morgan (ed.), Diversity and Unity in Early North America (London: Routledge, 1993, £37.50, £12.99 paper). Pp. 284. ISBN 0 415 08798 8, 0 415 08799 6. - Jack P. Greene, The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity From 1492 to 1800 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993, £32.95 cloth). Pp. 216. ISBN 0 8078 2097 0.
Peter Thompson
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16 January 2009, pp. 323-324
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Lois Parkinson Zamora, Writing the Apocalypse: Historical Vision in Contemporary U.S. and Latin American Fiction (Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1993. £13.95). Pp. 233. ISBN 0 521 42691 X.

Kirkpatrick Sale, The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement, 1962–1992 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1993, $22.95 hardcover, $7.95 paperback). Pp. 124. ISBN 0 8090 5218 0/0 8090 1551 X.

Dale Carter (ed.), Cracking the Ike Age: Aspects of Fifties America (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1992, 118 DDK). Pp. 271. ISBN 87 7288 373 1.

R. D. Mullen et al. (eds.), On Philip K. Dick: 40 Articles from ‘Science-Fiction Studies’ (Terre Hante and Greencastle: SF-TH Inc., 1992, $16.45). ISBN 0 9633169 1 5.

Carleton Mabee, Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend (New York: New York University Press, 1993, $35). Pp. 320. ISBN 0 8147 5484 8.

Michael Davitt Bell, The Problem of American Realism: Studies in the Cultural History of a Literary Idea (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993, £23.95). Pp. 256. ISBN 0 226 04201 4.

Ian F. A. Bell, Washington Square: Styles of Money (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993, $22.95). Pp. 165. ISBN 0 8057 8359 8.

Hans Bak, (ed.), Multiculturalism and the Canon of American Culture (Amsterdam, VU University Press, 1993, £35). Pp. 374. ISBN 90 5383 018 9, NUGI 651.

Mark Wahlgren Summers, The Era of Good Stealings (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, £37.50). Pp. 390. ISBN 0 19 507503 X.

Vernon Shetley, After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America (Durham and London, Duke University Press, 1993, £37.95 cloth, £12.95 paper). Pp. 209. ISBN 0 8223 1342 1.

Louis J. Zanine, Mechanism and Mysticism: The Influence of Science on the Thought and Work of Theodore Dreiser (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993, $34.95). Pp. 249. ISBN 0 8122 3171 6.

Michael Oriard, Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1993, $29.95). Pp. 348. ISBN 0 8078 2083 0.

Jonathan Freedman, Professions of Taste: Henry James, British Aestheticism and Commodity Culture (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993, £10.95). Pp. 305. ISBN 0 8047 2178 5.

Frank Shuffelton (ed.), A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, £32/£12.95). Pp. 286. ISBN 0 19 507522 6/019 507523.

Debra Gold Hansen, Strained Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993, $30). Pp. 248. ISBN 0 87023 8485.

Peter G. Boyle, American-Soviet Relations: From the Russian Revolution to the Fall of Communism (London: Routledge, 1993, £40 cloth, £12.99 Paper). Pp. 321. ISBN 0 415 02020 4, 0 415 09327 9.

Joel Myerson, (ed.), Emerson and Thoreau: The Contemporary Reviews, American Critical Archives, Vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, £60). Pp. 450. ISBN 0 521 38336 6.

Peter A. Dorsey, Sacred Estrangement: The Rhetoric of Conversion in Modern American Autobiography (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993, £30). Pp. 214. ISBN 0 271 00902 0.

Kent C. Ryden, Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Folklore, Writing and the Sense of Place (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993, $39.95, $17.95 paper). Pp. 326. ISBN 0 87745 406 X, 0 87745 414 0.

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