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Volume 14 Number 2 August 1980 ISSN 0021-8758

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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON

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UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM

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UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

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YALE UNIVERSITY

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UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

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ST CATHERINE'S COLLEGE,
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Journal of
American Studies
Volume 14 Number 2 August 1980

EDITOR

HOWARD TEMPERLEY

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

ARNOLD GOLDMAN

Cambridge University Press

CAMBRIDGE LONDON NEW YORK

NEW ROCHELLE MELBOURNE SYDNEY

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The Journal of American Studies publishes work by scholars of various
nationalities on American literature, history, institutions, politics, economics,
geography and related subjects. Articles which cross the conventional borders
between academic disciplines are particularly welcome, as are comparative
studies of American and other cultures. It also publishes review essays, book
reviews and, biennially, a list of theses on American topics in progress and
completed at British universities.

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N O T E : This number contains (pp. 343—59) the biennial listing of Doctoral
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Contents
Jonathan Edwards: The First Two Hundred Years
DANIEL B. SHEA

The Laws of War in the 1812 Conflict
ROBIN F. A. FABEL

The Neo-Hegelian Tradition in America
DAVID WATSON

Call Me Nigger!: Race and Speech in Faulkner's
Light in August

RICHARD GODDEN

Review Essay
The US Army and Global Politics, 191710 1927
C. J . BARTLETT

181

199

219

2 3 5

249

Reviews
Alberts, R. C , Benjamin West:

A Biography 280
Austin, J. C , American Humor in France:

Two Centuries of French Criticism of the
Comic Spirit in American Literature 313

Avery, L. G., (ed.), Dramatist in
America: Letters of Maxwell Anderson,
1912-19/8 260

Avrich, P., An American Anarchist.
The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre 253

Axelrod, S. G., Robert Lowell: Life
and Art 278

Banta, Martha, Failure and Success in
America: a Literary Debate 296

Belz, H., Emancipation and Equal Rights:
Politics and Constitutionalism in the
Civil War Era 283

Boyer, P., Urban Masses and Moral Order
in America, 1820—11)20 288

Brooker, P., A Student's Guide to the
Selected Poems of E^ra Pound 316

Butterick, G. F., A Guide to The
Maximus Poems of Charles Olson 309

Carroll, P. N., andNoble, D. W.,
The Free and the Unfree: A New
History of the United States 266

Carter, E., The American Idea:
The Literary Response to American
Optimism 314

Christensen, P., Charles Olson:
Call Him Ishmael 309

Colley, I., Dos Passos and the Fiction of
Despair 329

Cooke, J. E., Tench Coxe and the
Early Republic 282

Cripps, T., Black Film as Genre 306
Crotty, W. J., Decision for the Democrats:

Reforming the Party Structure 271

Cummings, A. L., The Framed Houses of
Massachusetts Bay, 162J-172J 336

Dance, D . C , Shuckin' and Jivin': Folk-
lore from Contemporary Black Americans 302

Divine, R. A., Blowing on the Wind: The
Nuclear Test Ban Debate 19/4-60 290

Donald, M., The American Novel in the
Twentieth Century 291

Donaldson, S. and Massa, Ann,
American Literature: Nineteenth and
Early Twentieth Centuries 291

Doob, L. W., (ed.), "Ezra Pound Speak-
ing": Radio Speeches of World War II 332

Dougherty, J. J., The Politics of Wartime
Aid: American Economic Assistance to
France and French Northwest Africa,
1940-1946 277

Douglas, G. H., H. L. Mencken, Critic of
American Life 295

DuBois, Ellen, C , Feminism and Suffrage:
The Emergence of an Independant Women's
Movement in America, 1848-1869 274

East, R. A., John Adams 311
Eberwein, Jane D . (ed.), Early American

Poetry: Selections from Bradstreet, Taylor,
Dwight, Freneau, and Bryant 254

Edelberg, C. D., Robert Creeley's Poetry:
A Critical Introduction 325

Eigner, E. M., The Metaphysical Novel in
England and America: Dickens, Bulwer,
Melville and Hawthorne 330

Emerson, E. (ed.), American Literature
1/64-1789: The Revolutionary Years 254

Emerson, R. W., The Journals and Mis-
cellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Volume XIV, 18/4-1861 303

Fanning, C , Finley Peter Dunne and Mr.
Dooley: The Chicago Years 267

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Reviews—continued
Fehrenbacher, D . E., The Dred Scott Case:

Its Significance in American Law and
Politics 299

Ferguson, E . J., (ed.), The Papers of
Robert Morris, Volume ) 316

Fetterley, Judith, The Resisting Reader:
a Feminist Approach to American
Fiction 286

Funigiello, Philip J., The Challenge to
Urban Liberalism: Federal-City Relations
during World War II 285

Gervais, David, Flaubert and Henry James:
A Study in Contrasts 327

Girgus, S. B., The Law of the Heart:
Individualism and the Modern Self in
American Literature 514

Graham, D., The Fiction of Frank Norris:
The Aesthetic Context 337

Hallberg, Robert von, Charles Olson:
The Scholar's Art 309

Havemann, J., Congress and the Budget 2.-16
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Hawthorne's Lost

Notebook, iS^j-1841 334
Hevener, J. W., Which Side Are You On?

The Harlan County Coal Miners,
}9}}9 273

Higashi, S., Virgins, Vamps and Flappers:
The American Silent Movie Heroine 306

Hyde, L. (ed.), Rat and the Devil: Journal
and Letters ofF. O. Mat ties sen and
Russell Cheney 260

Janowitz, M., The Last Half-Century:
Societal Change and Politics in America 307

Kettner, J. H., The Development of
American Citizenship, 1608-1870 321

Killorin, J. (ed.), Selected Letters of
Conrad Aiken 260

Larson, C. R., American Indian Fiction 338
Link, A. S. et al. (eds.), The Papers of

Woodrow Wilson, Volumes 27 to }i 319
Liska, G., Career of Umpire: America and

Imperial Expansion over Land and Sea 264
Macmillan, D . J., The Stoic Strain in

American Literature: Essays in Honour
of Mars ton LaFranee 314

McCullough, J. B., Hamlin Garland 283
McCutchan, J. D., Mier Expedition Diary:

a Texan Prisoner's Account. 294
Merrill, R., Norman Mailer 275
Mertz, P. E., New Deal Policy and

Southern Rural Poverty 281
Moody, A. D., Thomas Stearns Eliot:

Poet 258
Morgan, H . W., New Muses: Art in

American Culture 186J-1920 287
Mumford, L., My Works and Days:

A Personal Chronicle 342
Myerson, J. (ed.), Studies in the

American Renaissance 318
Norris, J. D., R. G. Dm eS>" Co., 1841-

1900: The Development of Credit
Reporting in the Nineteenth Century 300

Peckham, H. H., (ed.), Sources of
American Independence 323

Philpott, T. L., The Slum and the Ghetto:
Neighborhood Deterioration and Middle
Class Reform, Chicago, j88o-ipjo 340

Pizer, D . (ed.), Essays in American Litera-
ture in Memory of Richard P. Adams 293

Plater, W. M., The Grim Phoenix:
Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon 333

Porter, D., Emerson and Literary Change 303
Purdy, S. B., The Hole in the Fabric:

Science, Contemporary Literature, and
Henry James 256

Raboteau, A. J., Slave Religion 269
Rohrbough, M. J., The Trans-Appa-

lachian Frontier: People, Societies and
Institutions, i/7j-i8jo 288

Roof, W. C , Community and Commitment:
Religious Plausibility in a Liberal
Protestant Church 289

Savitt, T. L., Medicine and Slavery 269
Scheick, W. J., The Slender Human Word:

Emerson's Artistry in Prose 303
Schneider, D . J., The Crystal Cage:

Adventures of the Imagination in the
Fiction of Henry James 256

Schraepen, E. (ed.), Saul Bellow and
His Work 339

Schweninger, L., James T. Rapier and
Reconstruction 283

Scott, Q., and Miller, H. S., Eads Bridge 323
Siegel, M. R., Pynchon, Creative

Paranoia in 'Gravity's Rainbow' 333
Simon, Linda, The Biography of Alice

B. Toklas zyz
Springer, Marlefle (ed.), What Manner of

Woman: Essays on English and American
Life and Literature 301

Springer, Mary Doyle, A Rhetoric of
Literary Character: Some Women of
Henry James 326

Steiner, Wendy, Exact Resemblance to
Exact Resemblance: The Literary
Portraiture of Gertrude Stein 272

Stoehr, T., Hawthorne's Mad Scientists:
Pseudoscience and Social Science in
Nineteenth Century Life and Letters 330

Taylor, R. J. et al. (eds.), The Adams
Papers: The Papers of John Adams,
Volumes } and 4 311

Vitzthum, R. C , Land and Sea: The Lyric
Poetry of Philip Freneau 254

Wagenknecht, E., Eve and Henry James:
Portraits of Women and Girls in
His Fiction 256

Wagner, Linda W., Dos Passos: Artist
as American 329

Walkowitz, D . J., Worker City, Company
Town: Iron and Cotton Worker Protest in
Troy andCohoes, New York, i8fj-i884 340

West, Rachel, The Department of State on
the Eve of the First World War 324

White, T. H., In Search of History:
A Personal Adventure 262

Wiecek, W. M., The Sources of Antislavery
Constitutionalism in America, IJ6O~
1848 263

Williams, W. H . A., H. L. Mencken 295
Willcox, W. B. (ed.), The Papers of

Benjamin Franklin, Volume 21 316
Yoder, R. A., Emerson and the Orphic

Poet in America 303

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