Reviews
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Amanda Laugesen, Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War.
n Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War, Amanda Laugesen maps out Franklin Publications’ global initiative, “a kind of American Cold War book empire, one…
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Loren Glass, ed., After the Program Era: The Past, Present, and Future of Creative Writing in the University
After the Program Era, as Glass describes it in the introduction, “explores the consequences and implications, as well as the lacunae and liabilities, of McGurl’s foundational intervention” (1). After the…
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Donal Harris, On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines
On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines provides a valuable addition to the history of American literary modernism by highlighting the ways it “evolve[d] within rather than against…
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Tom F. Wright, Lecturing the Atlantic: Speech, Print, and an Anglo-American Commons, 1830-1870
At a time when public figures, the media, and the public are locked in an ongoing daily battle to define the truth, it feels wise to draw our attention to…
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Matthew Fellion and Katherine Inglis. Censored: A Literary History of Subversion & Control
Fellion and Inglis, scholars based in Edinburgh, take on the rather large task of providing an English-language literary history of censorship beginning in the fourteenth century and ending in the…
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Agatha Beins, Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity
Agatha Beins. Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017. 240p., ill. ISBN 9780820349510. US$ 84.95 (hardcover). ISBN 9780820349534. US$ 32.95 (paperback). In…
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Lori Merish, Archives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States
Lori Merish’s Archives of Labor: Working Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States is an ambitious work that recovers texts by and about women, labor, and working-class…
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Matthew Fellion and Katherine Inglis. Censored: A Literary History of Subversion & Control
Fellion and Inglis, scholars based in Edinburgh, take on the rather large task of providing an English-language literary history of censorship beginning in the fourteenth century and ending in the…