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Volume 32 - Issue 2 - August 1998

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Book Reviews

Barbara Ladd, Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996, £28.50). Pp. 197. ISBN 0 8071 2065 0.
ANDREW DIX
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Larry McCaffery, Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. £18.95). Pp. 333. ISBN 0 8122 1442 0.
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Kathryn Grover, Make a Way Somehow, African American Life in a Northern Community 1790–1965 (Syracuse University Press, 1994). Pp. 321. ISBN 0 8156 2627 4.
JASON CHARLES
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David T. Morgan, The Devious Dr. Franklin, Colonial Agent (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1996, $34.95). Pp. 273. ISBN 0 86554 525 1.
HUGH BROGAN
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Beth S. Wenger, New York Jews and the Great Depression, Uncertain Promise (New Haven and London: Yale University, Press, £22.50 cloth). Pp 269. ISBN 0 300 06265 6.
EDWARD A. ABRAMSON
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Karen L. Kilcup (ed.), Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, £50.00 cloth, £13.99 paper). Pp 601. ISBN 0 631 19985 3, 0 631 19986 1.
S-M. GRANT
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Clayborne Carson et al. (eds.), The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume 3: Birth of a New Age, December 1955–December 1956 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996, $40.00/£29.95). Pp. 566. ISBN 0 520 07951 5.
BRIAN WARD
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William G. Rowland Jr., Literature and the Marketplace: Romantic Writers and Their Audiences in Great Britain and the United States (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1996, £38). Pp. 230. ISBN 0 8032 3918 1.
VAL GOUGH
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Stephen Innes, Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England (London: W. W. Norton and Co, 1995). Pp. 390. ISBN 0 393 03584 0.
SARAH BARBER
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David Englander (ed.), Britain and America: Studies in Comparative History, 1760–1970 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997): ISBN 0 300 6977 4.
HUGH TULLOCH
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Paul Bourke and Donald DeBats, Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America (Baltimore, MD.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995). Pp. 407. ISBN 0 8018 4950 0.
STEVEN SARSON
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Richard Allen, Projecting Illusion: Film Spectatorship and the Impression of Reality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, £35 cloth, £12.95 paper). Pp. 176. ISBN 0 521 47015 3, 0 521 58715 8.
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Lynne Kirby, Parallel Tracks: The Railroad and the Silent Cinema (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1997). Pp. 338. ISBN 0 8598 9530 0.
ROBERTA E. PEARSON
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Maureen Ogle, All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840–1890 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). Pp. 191. ISBN 0 8018 5227 7.
MICHAEL FRENCH
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Arnold Krupat, The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture (Lincoln and London: Nebraska University Press, 1996, £28.50). Pp. 149. ISBN 0 8032 2735 3.
DAVID MURRAY
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John E. Tapia, Circuit Chautauqua: From Rural Education to Popular Entertainment in Early Twentieth Century America (Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1997). Pp. 232. ISBN 0 7864 0213 X cloth.
SEAN P. HOLMES
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Gary Laderman, The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Towards Death, 1799–1883 (London: Yale University Press, 1996, £22.50). Pp. 227. ISBN 0 300 06432 2.
CRAIG MONK
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Valerie Lee, Granny Midwives & Black Women Writers (London: Routledge, 1997, £40.00 cloth, £12.99 paper). Pp. 202. ISBN 0 415 91507 4, 0415 91508 2.
JANET BEER
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Stephen Fender (ed.), American and European National Identities: Faces in the Mirror (Keele, Staffs.: Keele University Press, 1996, £17.95). Pp. 208. ISBN 1 85331 133 2.
PAUL GILES
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Caryn Cossé Bell, Revolution, Romanticism and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718–1868 (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1997, $35.00). Pp. 325. ISBN 0 8071 2096 0.
S-M. GRANT
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Barbara Ladd, Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996, £28.50). Pp. 197. ISBN 0 8071 2065 0.

Larry McCaffery, Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. £18.95). Pp. 333. ISBN 0 8122 1442 0.

Kathryn Grover, Make a Way Somehow, African American Life in a Northern Community 1790–1965 (Syracuse University Press, 1994). Pp. 321. ISBN 0 8156 2627 4.

David T. Morgan, The Devious Dr. Franklin, Colonial Agent (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1996, $34.95). Pp. 273. ISBN 0 86554 525 1.

Beth S. Wenger, New York Jews and the Great Depression, Uncertain Promise (New Haven and London: Yale University, Press, £22.50 cloth). Pp 269. ISBN 0 300 06265 6.

Karen L. Kilcup (ed.), Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology (Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, £50.00 cloth, £13.99 paper). Pp 601. ISBN 0 631 19985 3, 0 631 19986 1.

Clayborne Carson et al. (eds.), The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume 3: Birth of a New Age, December 1955–December 1956 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996, $40.00/£29.95). Pp. 566. ISBN 0 520 07951 5.

William G. Rowland Jr., Literature and the Marketplace: Romantic Writers and Their Audiences in Great Britain and the United States (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1996, £38). Pp. 230. ISBN 0 8032 3918 1.

Stephen Innes, Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England (London: W. W. Norton and Co, 1995). Pp. 390. ISBN 0 393 03584 0.

David Englander (ed.), Britain and America: Studies in Comparative History, 1760–1970 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997): ISBN 0 300 6977 4.

Paul Bourke and Donald DeBats, Washington County: Politics and Community in Antebellum America (Baltimore, MD.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995). Pp. 407. ISBN 0 8018 4950 0.

Richard Allen, Projecting Illusion: Film Spectatorship and the Impression of Reality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, £35 cloth, £12.95 paper). Pp. 176. ISBN 0 521 47015 3, 0 521 58715 8.

Lynne Kirby, Parallel Tracks: The Railroad and the Silent Cinema (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1997). Pp. 338. ISBN 0 8598 9530 0.

Maureen Ogle, All the Modern Conveniences: American Household Plumbing, 1840–1890 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). Pp. 191. ISBN 0 8018 5227 7.

Arnold Krupat, The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture (Lincoln and London: Nebraska University Press, 1996, £28.50). Pp. 149. ISBN 0 8032 2735 3.

John E. Tapia, Circuit Chautauqua: From Rural Education to Popular Entertainment in Early Twentieth Century America (Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 1997). Pp. 232. ISBN 0 7864 0213 X cloth.

Gary Laderman, The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Towards Death, 1799–1883 (London: Yale University Press, 1996, £22.50). Pp. 227. ISBN 0 300 06432 2.

Valerie Lee, Granny Midwives & Black Women Writers (London: Routledge, 1997, £40.00 cloth, £12.99 paper). Pp. 202. ISBN 0 415 91507 4, 0415 91508 2.

Stephen Fender (ed.), American and European National Identities: Faces in the Mirror (Keele, Staffs.: Keele University Press, 1996, £17.95). Pp. 208. ISBN 1 85331 133 2.

Caryn Cossé Bell, Revolution, Romanticism and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718–1868 (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1997, $35.00). Pp. 325. ISBN 0 8071 2096 0.

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