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Martha Banta, Failure and Success in America: a Literary Debate (Princeton, New Jersey, and Guildford: Princeton Univ. Press, 1978, cloth £18.80, paper £7.90). Pp. x, 568.
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Don E. Fehrenbacher, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1979, £13.25). Pp. ix, 741.
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- 16 January 2009, pp. 299-300
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James D. Norris, R. G. Dun & Co., 1841–1900: The Development of Credit Reporting in the Nineteenth Century (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1978, $17.50). Pp. xx, 206.
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Marlene Springer (ed.), What Manner of Woman: Essays on English and American Life and Literature (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1978, £12). Pp. xx, 357.
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- 16 January 2009, pp. 301-302
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Daryl Cumber Dance, Shuckin' and Jivin': Folklore from Contemporary Black Americans (Bloomington and London: Indiana Univ. Press, 1978, $15.00). Pp. xxii, 390.
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- 16 January 2009, p. 302
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Jerome Klinkowitz (ed.), The Diaries of Willard Motley (Iowa State Univ. Press, 1979, cloth $8.50). Pp. xxiii, 196.
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David Porter, Emerson and Literary Change (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard Univ. Press, 1978, £10.50). Pp. xiii, 232. - R. A. Yoder, Emerson and the Orphic Poet in America (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: Univ. California Press, 1978, £9.50). Pp. xvi, 240. - William J. Scheick, The Slender Human Word: Emerson's Artistry in Prose (Knoxville: Univ. Tennessee Press, 1978, $9.00). Pp. xiv, 162. - R. W. Emerson, The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume XIV, 1854–1861, eds. Susan Sutton Smith and Harrison Hayford (Cambridge, Mass., and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 1978, n.p.). Pp. xxvi, 523.
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- 16 January 2009, pp. 303-305
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Sumiko Higashi, Virgins, Vamps and Flappers: The American Silent Movie Heroine (Montreal: Eden Press, 1979, $15.00). Pp. vi, 226. - Thomas Cripps, Black Film as Genre (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1978, $12.50). Pp. viii, 184.
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- 16 January 2009, pp. 306-307
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Morris Janowitz, The Last Half-Century: Societal Change and Politics in America (Chicago: Chicago Univ. Press, 1978, £17.50). Pp. xiii, 557.
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- 16 January 2009, pp. 307-309
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George F. Butterick, A Guide to The Maximus Poems of Charles Olson (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: Univ. of California Press, 1978, $40.00/£28.00). Pp. lxvi, 816. - Paul Christensen, Charles Olson: Call Him Ishmael (Austin and London: Univ. of Texas Press, 1979, $12.95/£9.10). Pp. xv, 245. - Robert von Hallberg, Charles Olson: The Scholar's Art (Cambridge and London: Harvard Univ. Press, 1978, £9.80). Pp. ix, 252.
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- 16 January 2009, pp. 309-311
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Robert J. Taylor et al. (eds.), The Adams Papers: The Papers of John Adams, Volumes 3 and 4 (Cambridge, Mass., and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 1979, £33 the set). Pp. xxi, 417; x, 550. - Robert A. East, John Adams (Boston: Twayne's World Leaders series, 1979, $11.95). Pp. 126.
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- 16 January 2009, pp. 311-312
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James C. Austin, American Humor in France: Two Centuries of French Criticism of the Comic Spirit in American Literature, with a concluding chapter by Daniel Royot (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State Univ. Press, 1978, $9.50). Pp. x, 177.
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- 16 January 2009, pp. 313-314
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Sam B. Girgus, The Law of the Heart: Individualism and the Modern Self in American Literature (Austin and London: Univ. Texas Press, 1979, £8.40). Pp. xii, 180. - Everett Carter, The American Idea: The Literary Response to American Optimism (Chapel Hill, N.C.: Univ. North Carolina Press, 1977, n.p.). Pp. x, 276. - Duane J. Macmillan, The Stoic Strain in American Literature: Essays in Honour of Marston LaFrance (Toronto, Buffalo and London: Univ. Toronto Press, 1979, £12.25). Pp. xiv, 224.
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- 16 January 2009, pp. 314-315
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Peter Brooker, A Student's Guide to the Selected Poems of Ezra Pound (London: Faber, 1979, cloth £7.25, paper £3.95). Pp. 367.
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William B. Willcox (ed.), The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 21 (New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 1978, £17). Pp. xlvii, 653. - E. James Ferguson (ed.), The Papers of Robert Morris, Volume 3 (Pittsburgh: Univ. Pittsburgh Press, 1977, $22.50). Pp. xxxvi, 557; Volume 4 (Pittsburgh: Univ. Pittsburgh Press, 1978, $25). Pp. xxxvii, 671.
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- 16 January 2009, pp. 316-318
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Studies in the American Renaissance: 1977, ed. Joel Myerson (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1978, $25). Pp. x, 411.
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- 16 January 2009, pp. 318-319
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Arthur S. Link et al. (eds.), The Papers of Woodrow. Willson, 27 to 31 (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1978–1979, £17.20 per vol.).
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- 16 January 2009, pp. 319-321
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James H. Kettner, The Development of American Citizenship, 1608–1870 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1978, $20.00). Pp. xi, 391.
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- 16 January 2009, pp. 321-323
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Quinta Scott and Howard S. Miller, Eads Bridge (Columbia, Missouri, and London: Univ. Missouri Press, 1978, £13.30).
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- 16 January 2009, p. 323
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Howard H. Peckham (ed.), Sources of American Independence (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1978, $20.00). Pp. vii, 622.
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- 16 January 2009, pp. 323-324
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