Recent Scholarship
Intellectual
Avallone, Charlene, “Catharine Sedgwick and the Circles of New York,” Legacy, 23 (no. 2, 2006), 115–31.
Bahr, Howard M., “Thomas F. O’Dea, the Harvard Values Project, and the Mormons: Early Lessons on Ethnography among the Literate,” Human Organization, 65 (Winter 2006), 343–52.
Blinka, Daniel D., “The Roots of the Modern Trial: Greenleaf’s Testimony to the Harmony of Christianity, Science, and Law in Antebellum America,” Journal of the Early Republic, 27 (Summer 2007), 293–334.
Dewey, Donald O., “Professor Dorothy Parker,” Southern California Quarterly, 89 (Spring 2007), 89–123.
Fernández-Albertos, I., “Dividir lo imposible. Separación de poderes y soberanía popular en James Madison” (Dividing the impossible. Separation of powers and popular sovereignty in James Madison), Revista de Estudios Políticos (Madrid) (no. 128, April–June 2005), 293–316. In Spanish.
Findlay, John M., “Something in the Soil? Literature and Regional Identity in the 20th-Century Pacific Northwest,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 97 (Fall 2006), 179–89.
Foletta, Marshall, “‘The dearest sacrifice’: Catharine Maria Sedgwick and the Celibate Life,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 8 (March 2007), 51–79.
Herreros Vázquez, Francisco, “La confianza política en la tradición republicana desde Cicerón hasta Madison” (Political trust in the republican tradition from Cicero to Madison), Revista de Estudios Políticos (Madrid) (no. 125, July–Sept. 2004), 325–47. In Spanish.
Hoeller, Hildegard, “Race, Modernism, and Plagiarism: The Case of Nella Larsen’s ‘Sanctuary,’” African American Review, 40 (Fall 2006), 421–37.
Hollinger, David A., “American Intellectual History, 1907–2007,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (April 2007), 14–17.
Koch, Benjamin, “The French Quarter Apprentice: William Faulkner’s Modernist Evolution,” Louisiana History, 48 (Winter 2007), 55–68.
Kornblith, Gary J., and Carol Lasser, “More than Great White Men: A Century of Scholarship on American Social History,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (April 2007), 8–13.
Messmer, David, “‘If Not in the Word, In the Sound’: Frederick Douglass’s Mediation of Literacy through Song,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 21 (March 2007), 5–21.
Ousley, Laurie, “The Business of Housekeeping: The Mistress, the Domestic Worker, and the Construction of Class,” Legacy, 23 (no. 2, 2006), 132–47.
Parchesky, Jennifer, “Adapting Stella Dallas: Class Boundaries, Consumerism, and Hierarchies of Taste,” Legacy, 23 (no. 2, 2006), 178–98.
Pastor Martínez, Manuel, “Alexander Hamilton, los orígenes del nacionalismo político contemporáneo” (Alexander Hamilton: The origins of contemporary political nationalism), Revista de Estudios Políticos (Madrid) (no. 127, Jan.–March 2005), 25–55. In Spanish.
Pollard, Finn, “From beyond the Grave and across the Ocean: Washington Irving and the Problem of Being a Questioning American, 1809–20,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 8 (March 2007), 81–101.
Rhode, Robert T., “The Persistence of Place: Alice Cary’s Authentic Rural Settings,” Ohio Valley History, 7 (Spring 2007), 47–59.
Rosenberg, Emily S., “America and the World: From National to Global,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (April 2007), 18–22.
Ryan, Melissa, “The Indian Problem as a Woman’s Question: S. Alice Callahan’s Wynema: A Child of the Forest,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 21 (March 2007), 23–45.
Saikku, Mikko, “Faulkner and the ‘Doomed Wilderness’ of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta,” Mississippi Quarterly, 58 (Summer–Fall 2005), 529–57.
Salska, Agnieszka, “From National to Supranational Conception of Literature: The Case of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 20 (Dec. 2006), 611–28.
Voeller, Carey, “‘I have not told half we suffered’: Overland Trail Women’s Narratives and the Genre of Suppressed Textual Mourning,” Legacy, 23 (no. 2, 2006), 148–62.
White, Tom, “From McCook to Whispering Smith,” Nebraska History, 87 (Fall 2006), 98–119. Heavily illustrated.
Wilentz, Sean, “American Political Histories,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (April 2007), 23–27.
Willis, Lloyd, “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, United States National Literature, and the Canonical Erasure of Material Nature,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 20 (Dec. 2006), 629–46.
Biehn, Kersten Jacobson, “Improving Mankind: Philanthropic Foundations and the Development of American University Research between the World Wars” (Rice University, 2006). Order No. DA3216676.
Comeford, AmiJo, “‘Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War’: Melville’s Vision of Race, Reconciliation, and America’s Tragic Knowledge” (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2006). Order No. DA3226611.
Fairhead, Elizabeth S. C., “Essential Nature: Bartman’s Garden and Natural History in Philadelphia, 1790–1825” (Michigan State University, 2006). Order No. DA3216128.
Germana, Michael Joseph, “Standards of Value: U.S. Monetary Policy and the Negotiation of Racial Difference in American Literature, 1834–1952” (University of Iowa, 2006). Order No. DA3225610.
Graham, Susan H., “‘Call me a female politician, I glory in the name!’: Women Dorrites and Rhode Island’s 1842 Suffrage Crisis” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3220002.
Mathes, Virgil I., “Pistols at High Noon: The Code Duello in Western Literature” (University of New Mexico, 2006). Order No. DA3220919.
Murison, Justine Summerhayes, “States of Mind: The Politics of Psychology in American Literature, 1780–1860” (University of Pennsylvania, 2006). Order No. DA3225510.
Norman, Matthew David, “Revolutions in the Republican Imagination: American Perceptions of the 1848–1849 Revolutions in Europe” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006). Order No. DA3223682.
Parmelee, Stephen F., “Trouble in Paradise: Nine Southern California Novels, 1927–1940” (Claremont Graduate University, 2006). Order No. DA3223791.
Slagle, Jefferson D., “In the Flesh: Authenticity, Nationalism, and Performance on the American Frontier, 1860–1925” (Ohio State University, 2006). Order No. DA3226353.
Weaver, James A., “‘What a place to live’: Home and Wilderness in Domesteic American Travel Literature, 1835–1883” (Ohio State University, 2006). Order No. DA3226342.
Williams, Edward M., Jr., “The Color of Sympathy: Biology, Race, and Feeling in Republican and Antebellum Culture” (University of Rhode Island, 2006). Order No. DA3225332.
Williams, Kelly Diane, “‘Home of all nations’: Race, Place, and Domesticity in American Literature, 1877–1919” (University of Michigan, 2006). Order No. DA3224786.
Wolff, Katherine Frances, “The Culture Club: A Study of the Boston Athenaeum, 1807–1860” (Boston University, 2006). Order No. DA3218569.
Cartosi, Bruno, New York e il moderno. Società, arte e architettura nella metropoli americana (1876–1917) (New York and the modern. Society, art, and architecture in the American metropolis [1876–1917]). (Milan: Feltrinelli, 2007. 368 pp. €25.00, isbn 978-88-07-10417-6.) In Italian.
Cavitch, Max, American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. viii, 352 pp. Cloth, $67.50, isbn 978-0-8166-4892-4. Paper, $22.50, isbn 978-0-8166-4893-1.)
DuBois, Ellen Carol, and Richard Cándida Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Feminist as Thinker: A Reader in Documents and Essays. (New York: New York University Press, 2007. viii, 328 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8147-1981-7. Paper, $23.00, isbn 978-0-8147-1982-4.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Onuf, Peter S., The Mind of Thomas Jefferson. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. x, 281 pp. Cloth, $49.50, isbn 978-0-8139-2578-3. Paper, $19.50, isbn 978-0-8139-2611-7.)
Tilman, Rick, Thorstein Veblen and the Enrichment of Evolutionary Naturalism. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. xxiv, 344 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1714-1.)
Aaron, Daniel, The Americanist. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 199 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-472-11577-8.)
Dworkin, Ira, ed., Daughter of the Revolution: The Major Nonfiction Works of Pauline E. Hopkins. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. xlvi, 406 pp. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8135-3961-4.)
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