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Fictions of Speculation

Volume 49 - Issue 4 - November 2015

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John Earnest (ed.), Douglass in His Own Time (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2014, $37.50). Pp. 300. isbn978 1 6093 8289 6.
HANNAH-ROSE MURRAY
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29 October 2015, pp. 919-920
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Brian Connolly, Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America (Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2014, £29.50/$45.00). Pp. 304. isbn978 0 8122 4621 6.
MICHAEL COLLINS
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29 October 2015, pp. 921-922
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Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson (eds.), Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century Literary Studies (New York and London: New York University Press, 2014, $79.00). Pp. 352. isbn978 1 4798 5772 2.
PETER J. L. RILEY
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29 October 2015, pp. 922-923
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Eliza Richards (ed.), Emily Dickinson in Context (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013, $99.00). Pp. 386. isbn978 1 1070 2274 4.
VICTORIA N. MORGAN
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29 October 2015, pp. 924-925
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Adam Ewing, The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaica Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014, $35.00/£24.95). Pp. 320. isbn978 0 6911 5799 5.
JUDITH STEIN
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29 October 2015, pp. 925-927
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Kaeten Mistry, The United States, Italy and the Origins of Cold War: Waging Political Warfare, 1945–1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, £65.00). Pp. 308. isbn978 1 1070 3508 9.
DAVID J. SNYDER
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29 October 2015, pp. 927-928
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Malcolm McLaughlin, The Long, Hot Summer of 1967: Urban Rebellion in America (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014, £60.00). Pp. xiii + 227. isbn978 1 1372 6962 1.
JOE STREET
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29 October 2015, pp. 929-930
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Cornelis A. van Minnen and Manfred Berg (eds.), The U.S. South and Europe: Translatlantic Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2013, $50.00). Pp. 307. isbn978 0 8131 4308 8.
GÜNTER BISCHOF
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29 October 2015, pp. 930-932
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Nancy Foner, Jan Rath, Jan Willem Duyvendak and Rogier van Reekum (eds.), New York and Amsterdam: Immigration and the New Urban Landscape (New York: New York University Press, 2014, $30.00). Pp. 336. isbn978 0 8147 3844 3.
LESLIE PAGE MOCH
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29 October 2015, pp. 932-933
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Mark Osteen, Nightmare Alley: Film Noir and the American Dream (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012, $34.95). Pp. 336. isbn978 1 4214 0780 7.
BEN TYRER
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29 October 2015, pp. 934-935
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Robert Slifkin, Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art (Oakland: University of California Press, 2013, $60.00). Pp. 264. isbn978 0 5202 7529 4.
JO APPLIN
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29 October 2015, pp. 936-937
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Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Intimate Strangers: Arendt, Marcuse, Solzhenitsyn, and Said in American Political Discourse (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014, $35.00). Pp. 304. isbn978 0 2311 6868 7.
STEPHEN J. WHITFIELD
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29 October 2015, pp. 937-938
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Heather Neilson, Political Animal: Gore Vidal on Power (Clayton, VIC: Monash University Publishing, 2014, $39.95). Pp. 241. isbn978 1 9218 6768 2.
TOM ARNOLD-FORSTER
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29 October 2015, pp. 939-940
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David Koistinen, Confronting Decline: The Political Economy of Deindustrialization in Twentieth-Century New England (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013, $74.95). Pp. 331. isbn978 0 8130 4907 6.
TOM JURAVICH
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29 October 2015, pp. 940-941
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Eric Schlosser, Command and Control: The Story of Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Safety (London: Penguin, 2014, £9.99). Pp. 632. isbn978 0 1410 3791 2.
MALCOLM CRAIG
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29 October 2015, pp. 942-943
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Alyosha Goldstein (ed.), Formations of United States Colonialism (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2014, $27.95). Pp. 359. isbn978 0 8223 5810 7.
NICK CLEAVER
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29 October 2015, pp. 943-944
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Elisabeth R. Anker, Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2014, £15.99). Pp. xiv + 338. isbn978 0 8223 5697 4.
JUDIE NEWMAN
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29 October 2015, pp. 944-946
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Joanna Freer, Thomas Pynchon and the American Counterculture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, £60.00). Pp. 165. isbn978 1 1070 7605 1.
MARTIN PAUL EVE
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29 October 2015, pp. 946-947
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Winifred Morgan, The Trickster Figure in American Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, $90.00). Pp. 268. isbn978 1 1373 4471 7.
BABACAR MBAYE
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29 October 2015, pp. 948-949
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Sheila Hones, Literary Geographies: Narrative Space in Let the Great World Spin (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, £57.50). Pp. 182. isbn978 1 1374 1312 3.
RUTH GILLIGAN
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29 October 2015, pp. 949-951
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John Earnest (ed.), Douglass in His Own Time (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2014, $37.50). Pp. 300. isbn978 1 6093 8289 6.

Brian Connolly, Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America (Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2014, £29.50/$45.00). Pp. 304. isbn978 0 8122 4621 6.

Dana Luciano and Ivy G. Wilson (eds.), Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century Literary Studies (New York and London: New York University Press, 2014, $79.00). Pp. 352. isbn978 1 4798 5772 2.

Eliza Richards (ed.), Emily Dickinson in Context (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013, $99.00). Pp. 386. isbn978 1 1070 2274 4.

Adam Ewing, The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaica Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014, $35.00/£24.95). Pp. 320. isbn978 0 6911 5799 5.

Kaeten Mistry, The United States, Italy and the Origins of Cold War: Waging Political Warfare, 1945–1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, £65.00). Pp. 308. isbn978 1 1070 3508 9.

Malcolm McLaughlin, The Long, Hot Summer of 1967: Urban Rebellion in America (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014, £60.00). Pp. xiii + 227. isbn978 1 1372 6962 1.

Cornelis A. van Minnen and Manfred Berg (eds.), The U.S. South and Europe: Translatlantic Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2013, $50.00). Pp. 307. isbn978 0 8131 4308 8.

Nancy Foner, Jan Rath, Jan Willem Duyvendak and Rogier van Reekum (eds.), New York and Amsterdam: Immigration and the New Urban Landscape (New York: New York University Press, 2014, $30.00). Pp. 336. isbn978 0 8147 3844 3.

Mark Osteen, Nightmare Alley: Film Noir and the American Dream (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012, $34.95). Pp. 336. isbn978 1 4214 0780 7.

Robert Slifkin, Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art (Oakland: University of California Press, 2013, $60.00). Pp. 264. isbn978 0 5202 7529 4.

Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Intimate Strangers: Arendt, Marcuse, Solzhenitsyn, and Said in American Political Discourse (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014, $35.00). Pp. 304. isbn978 0 2311 6868 7.

Heather Neilson, Political Animal: Gore Vidal on Power (Clayton, VIC: Monash University Publishing, 2014, $39.95). Pp. 241. isbn978 1 9218 6768 2.

David Koistinen, Confronting Decline: The Political Economy of Deindustrialization in Twentieth-Century New England (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013, $74.95). Pp. 331. isbn978 0 8130 4907 6.

Eric Schlosser, Command and Control: The Story of Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Safety (London: Penguin, 2014, £9.99). Pp. 632. isbn978 0 1410 3791 2.

Alyosha Goldstein (ed.), Formations of United States Colonialism (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2014, $27.95). Pp. 359. isbn978 0 8223 5810 7.

Elisabeth R. Anker, Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2014, £15.99). Pp. xiv + 338. isbn978 0 8223 5697 4.

Joanna Freer, Thomas Pynchon and the American Counterculture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, £60.00). Pp. 165. isbn978 1 1070 7605 1.

Winifred Morgan, The Trickster Figure in American Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, $90.00). Pp. 268. isbn978 1 1373 4471 7.

Sheila Hones, Literary Geographies: Narrative Space in Let the Great World Spin (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, £57.50). Pp. 182. isbn978 1 1374 1312 3.

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