AMS volume 29 issue 1 Cover and Back matter CAMBRIDGE The Cambridge History of American Literature Volume I: 1590-1820 Edited by SACVAN BERCOVITCH The Cambridge History of American Literature addresses the spectrum of new and established directions in American writing, wedding the voice of traditional criticism with the diversity of interests that characterise contemporary literary studies. Volume I covers the colonial and early national periods, discussing authors ranging from Renaissance explorers and Puritan theocrats to the poets and novelists of the new republic. £55.00 net HB 0 521 30105 X 845 pp. A Cultural History of the American Novel Henry James to William Faulkner DAVID MINTER Minter's broad and synthetic vision of the relationship between literary narratives and cultural events reconstructs literary history as a cultural drama in which the novels and the events, provocative fusions of the real and the imagined, emerge as kindred forms of cultural expression. £37.50 net HB 0 521 45285 6 292 pp. The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative The Timely and the Timeless PHYLLIS FRUS Frus's book tells the story of the separation of journalism from literature (Crane and Hemingway) in the early 20th century, and discusses the narratives that resulted when fiction and nonfiction appeared to merge again in the innovative journalism of the 1960s and 70s (Mailer, Capote, Wolfe, Janet Malcolm). £37.50 net HB 0 521 44324 5 318 pp. African American Theatre An Historical and Critical Analysis SAMUEL A. HAY This book traces the history of African American theatre from its beginnings to the present. It analyses the types of plays written for this theatre, identifies the perennial problems faced by theatre artists and producing companies, and makes bold, innovative proposals for the theatres healthy survival. £37.50 net HB 0 521 44522 1 303 pp. £13.95 net PB 0 52146585 0 Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama 1 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580002613X Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:17, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580002613X https://www.cambridge.org/core CAMBRIDGE William Carlos Williams and Alterity The Early Poetry BARRY AH EARN Many critics have noticed the paradoxes and contradictions in the work of William Carlos Williams, but few have analyzed them in detail. Professor Ahearn argues that Williams criticism has not gone far enough in recognising the uses Williams saw for contradiction. £30.00 net HB 0 52145200 7 199 pp. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture 75 Poetics of the Feminine Authority and Literary Tradition in William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Denise Levertov and Kathleen Fraser LINDA A. KINNAHAN This book examines the early work of William Carlos Williams in relationship to a woman's tradition of American poetry, as represented by Mina Loy, Denise Levertov and Kathleen Fraser - three generations of women poets working in or directly from a modernist tradition. Linda Kinnahan traces notions of the feminine and the maternal that develop as Williams seeks to create a modern poetics. £37.50 net HB 0 52145127 2 302 pp. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture 74 The Baroque Narrative of Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora A New World Paradise KATHLEEN ROSS This book is the first critical study to place both the writer and his narrative within the phenomenon of the Barroco de Indias, or the Spanish-American baroque. Approaching Siguenza as criollo historian preoccupied with the placement of the New World within a universal context, Professor Ross develops a theoretical framework within which his texts can be read and understood today. £35.00 net HB 0 52145113 2 240 pp. Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature 9 The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson CARY WOLFE Cary Wolfe analyses the dynamics and consequences of radical individualism and the sort of cultural critique it generates in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ezra Pound. The main purpose of the book is to demonstrate that any form of individualism which is modelled on the logic and structure of private property will always reproduce the very contradictions and alienations which it set out to criticise and to remedy. £35.00 net HB 0 521 44555 8 301 pp. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture 69 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU 1,1,1 my terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580002613X Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:17, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580002613X https://www.cambridge.org/core CAMBRIDGE Nathaniel Hawthorne The Contemporary Reviews Edited by JOHN IDOL and BUFORD JONES Preface by M. THOMAS INGE This collection traces the construction of Hawthorne's contemporaneous critical reputation as presented through notices and reviews, a selective bibliography, and an introduction that surveys Hawthorne's reception among American and British reviewers. £65.00 net HB 0 521 39142 3 560 pp. American Critical Archives 4 New Essays on The Country of the Pointed Firs Edited by JUNE HOWARD This collection of essays on Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, builds on feminist literary scholarship that affirms the value of Jewett's work, but goes beyond previously published studies by offering an analysis of how race, nationalism, and the literary market place shape her narrative. £24.95 net HB 0 52141574 8 131pp. £9.95 net PB 0 521 42602 2 The American Novel Hollywood Censored Morality Codes, Catholics, and the Movies GREGORY D. BLACK Based on an extensive survey of original studio records, censorship files, and Catholic Legion of Decency archives here published for the first time, Hollywood Censored examines how hundreds of films were censored to promote a conservative political agenda during the 1930s, the golden era of studio production. £30.00 net HB 0 521 45299 6 347 pp. Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communications Frederic Edwin Church Catalogue Raisonne of Works of Art at Olana State Historical Site GERALD L. CARR This is the largest project thus far undertaken on Frederic Edwin Church: a comprehensive scholarly catalogue of his works of art still at Olana State Historical Site. £250.00 net HB 0 521 38540 7 635 pp. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580002613X Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:17, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580002613X https://www.cambridge.org/core I Stand in the Center of the Good Interviews with Contemporary Native American Artists Lawrence Abbott £38 hb Chief The Life History of Eugene Delorme, Imprisoned Santee Sioux Edited by Inez Cardozo-Freeman £24.95 hb South Carolina Politics and Government Blease Graham, Jr. and William V. Moore £42.75 hb, £16.95 pb North Carolina Government and Politics Jack D. Fleer £38 hb, £17.95 pb Democracy in the Fifty States Kim Quaile Hill £28.50 hb The Life of Abraham Lincoln Isaac N. Arnold Introduction by James A. 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Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:17, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580002613X https://www.cambridge.org/core Within the Circle An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present Angelyn Mitchell, editor "Within the Circle is essential reading for anyone interested in American literature, twentieth-century cultural criticism, or the African American intellectual canon. It belongs on every bookshelf and, more important, as required reading within the American literature classroom." - Cathy N. Davidson, editor of American Literature 584 pages, £47.95 hb, £17.95 pb The First Woman in the Republic A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child Carolyn L. Karcher "This is a magnificent book. Child's character emerges as a model for what a woman can be . . . 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It also highlights the problematic nature of their relationship to the Harlem Renaissance and to black culture in general." - Wilson Library Bulletin 240 pages, 10 photos, £32.95 hb, £13.95 pb Walt Whitman The Centennial Essays Edited by Ed Folsom Drawings by Guido Villa "This collection gathers the current state of Whitman scholarship from the most influential Whitman critics working over the past half century." - Ed Folsom, from the introduction 296 pages, 5 drawings, £31.50 hb, £16.95 pb Garrison Keillor Peter A. Scholl "Scholl's in-depth study draws parallels between Keillor's public career as a radio performer and his solitary life as a writer. Scholl calls it 'Keillor's duality, his doubleness. There is the celebrity and private citizen, the writer and the performer... Scholl was given complete access to the Minnesota Public Radio archives, and spent hours listening to reel- to-reel tapes and reading scripts. 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