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Readings In Place: Recent Publications In Southwestern Literature And Studies, Thomas Lynch
Readings In Place: Recent Publications In Southwestern Literature And Studies, Thomas Lynch
Department of English: Faculty Publications
The "Southwest" is nearly always defined along the intersection of two axes, one cultural and the other natural. Certain characteristics of these two axes are obvious in the six works considered here. Culturally, the region is most distinguished from the rest of the US by the existence of two enduring ethnic communities, the indigenous and the Hispanic, with the presence of the Mexican border exerting a powerful influence. In very different ways, Molly H. Mullin’s Culture in the Market Place: Gender, Art, and Value in the American Southwest, Audrey Goodman’s Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary …
The Publishing History Of Augusta Jane Evans's Confederate Novel Macaria: Unwriting Some Lost Cause Myths, Melissa J. Homestead
The Publishing History Of Augusta Jane Evans's Confederate Novel Macaria: Unwriting Some Lost Cause Myths, Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
In his 1884 Memoir Fifty Years among Authors, Books and Publishers, New York publisher J. C. Derby, who had published Augusta Jane Evans's second novel, Beulah, in 1859, gives an account of the publishing history of Evans's third novel, Macaria. Both the facts he recounts and his interpretation of those facts have been taken as largely accurate, appearing repeatedly in scholarly analyses of Evans's life and works. This essay argues that Derby's account is a romanticized, factually inaccurate account of wartime events from a post- Reconstruction perspective.
Review Of Social Stories: The Magazine Novel In Nineteenth-Century America And Blue Pencils And Hidden Hands: Women Editing Periodicals, 1830–1910, Melissa J. Homestead
Review Of Social Stories: The Magazine Novel In Nineteenth-Century America And Blue Pencils And Hidden Hands: Women Editing Periodicals, 1830–1910, Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Patricia Okker’s study of serialized novels published in nineteenth-century American magazines is elegantly conceived and executed. Beginning her chronological case studies with the serialization of Jeremy Belknap’s The Foresters (1787) in the Columbian Magazine, Okker takes as her central analytic framework the relationship between parts and whole, considering both the relationship of parts of magazine novels to the whole magazine in which they appear and the connection of individuals to the whole collectivity of American nationalism(s). The Columbian Magazine, for instance, published the U.S. Constitution alongside an installment of The Foresters, and in his novel, Belknap sought …