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Clymer, Jeffory A., “Property and Selfhood in Herman Melville’s Pierre,” Nineteenth-Century Literature, 61 (Sept. 2006), 171–99.

Connolly, Michael J., “Barrett Wendell: New England Orderly Idealist,” Modern Age, 48 (Fall 2006), 320–29.

Glenn, Susan A., “The Vogue of Jewish Self-Hatred in Post–World War II America,” Jewish Social Studies, 12 (Spring–Summer 2006), 95–136.

Houen, Alex, “William S. Burrough’s Cities of the Red Night Trilogy: Writing Outer Space,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 40 (Dec. 2006), 523–49.

Lee, Jee Yoon, “‘The Rude Contact of Some Actual Circumstance’: Hawthorne and Salem’s East India Marine Museum,” English Literary History, 73 (Winter 2006), 949–73.

Maekawa, Reiko, “Rozenbagu jiken to Amerika chishikijin” (The Rosenberg case and American intellectuals), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 39 (2005), 43–62. In Japanese.

Mizuno, Tatsuro, “Emason no ‘hirenzoku’ teki yoshiki to Nihon ni okero sono jyuyo” (Emerson’s style and its reception in Japan), Amerika kenkyu (Tokyo), 39 (2005), 105–24. In Japanese.

Monteiro, George, “Henry Adams and William James: An Intellectual Relationship,” American Literary Realism, 39 (Winter 2007), 150–67.

Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer, “Conventional Iconoclasm: The Cultural Work of the Nietzsche Image in Twentieth-Century America,” Journal of American History, 93 (Dec. 2006), 728–54.

Versluis, Arthur, “Antimodernism,” Telos (no. 137, Winter 2006), 96–130.

 

Boyer, Patricio Edgardo, “Empire and American Visions of the Humane” (Yale University, 2006). Order No. DA3214179.

Davis, Melvin Duane, “Collecting Hispania: Archer Huntington’s Quest to Develop Hispanic Collections in the United States” (University of Alabama, 2005). Order No. DA3210439.

Donaghy, Daniel, “Writing through Resistance: African-American Writers and Their Audiences, 1912–1932” (University of Rochester, 2006). Order No. DA3213192.

Fuchs, Maura L., “‘Revista Mexicana’: Constructing the Conservative Mexican Nation in Exile” (University of Houston, 2006). Order No. DA3212133.

Geddes, Gregory Edmund, “Literature and Labor: Harvey Swados and the Twentieth-Century American Left” (State University of New York, Binghamton, 2006). Order No. DA3211268.

Gray, Jonathan W., “Innocence by Association: Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination” (City University of New York, 2006). Order No. DA3213269.

Haslam, David, “Pastoral Domesticity in the Antebellum North” (Temple University, 2006). Order No. DA3211877.

Jennings, Patrick R., “Clio’s Drumbeat: Gathering and Using History in Wartime” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2006). Order No. DA3212971.

Kester, Scott, “Republican Hope with Auxiliary Precautions: James Madison’s Vision and the U.S. Constitution” (Lehigh University, 2006). Order No. DA3215842.

Lacey, Robert J., “American Pragmatism and Democratic Faith” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2006). Order No. DA3212736.

Lubovich, Maglina, “‘Married or Single?’ Bachelors, Spinsters, and Critiques of Marriage in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, 1820–1870” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2006). Order No. DA3213632.

Matthews, Kadeshia L., “Becoming the Black Subject: Violence, Domesticity, and the Masculine Self in Mid–20th Century African American Literature” (Johns Hopkins University, 2006). Order No. DA3213762.

Menendez, Melissa Ann, “When Mexico Was en Vogue: U.S. Modernist Aesthetics and the Discourse on National Character” (Claremont Graduate University, 2006). Order No. DA3214757.

Murphy, Sarah, “Beyond Racial Tragedy: Cross-Racial Alliances in American Novels of the 1940s” (Indiana University, 2006). Order No. DA3215211.

Rives, Darcie D., “Fantastic Writing, Real Lives: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Early Twentieth-Century American Women’s Speculative Fiction” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2006). Order No. DA3216433.

Stacy, Jason Edward, “Containing Multitudes: Walt Whitman’s Three Personas in the New Market Economy” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2006). Order No. DA3212988.

Stein, Jordan Alexander, “Taking Dictation from God: Secularization and Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature” (Johns Hopkins University, 2006). Order No. DA3213807.

Stone, Raymond Cary, “‘He that is not with us is against us.’ Apocalypticism and Millennialism in American Literature and Culture: 1630–1860” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2006). Order No. DA3213941.

Versen, Christopher R., “Optimistic Liberals: Herbert Spencer, the Brooklyn Ethical Association, and the Integration of Moral Philosophy and Evolution in the Victorian Trans-Atlantic Community” (Florida State University, 2006). Order No. DA3216555.

Wilson, John-Paul, “Political Bias and Historical Writing: A Case Study of Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution and Its North American Historiography and Social Science, 1981–1990” (St. John’s University, New York, 2005). Order No. DA3212950.

Woo, Ilyon, “Rational Renegades: Antebellum Anti-Shakers, Shaker Apostates, and the Literary Imagination” (Columbia University, 2004). Order No. DA3209336.

 

Bacigalupo, Massimo, and Gregory Dowling, eds., Ambassadors. American Studies in a Changing World. Proceedings of the XVII International aisna Conference. (Rapallo: Busco, 2006. 520 pp. €35.50, isbn 1970-0571.)

Di Luzio, Alessandra, ed., The Grand Tour Lives On. (Bologna: clueb, 2006. 160 pp. €20.00, isbn 88-491-2617-4.)

Ferri, Mascia, Come si forma l’opinione pubblica. Il contributo sociologico di Walter Lippmann (How public opinion is made. The sociological contribution of Walter Lippmann). (Milan: Angeli, 2006. 128 pp. €14.00, isbn 88-464-7627-1.) In Italian.

Raine, Craig, T. S. Eliot. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xxii, 202 pp. $21.00, isbn 978-0-530993-5.)

Sher, Richard B., The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and America. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xxvi, 815 pp. $40.00, isbn 0-226-75252-6.)

Trachtenberg, Alan, Lincoln’s Smile and Other Enigmas. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2007. xx, 378 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-8090-4297-5.)

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