Book Reviews

• Published in: European journal of American culture 2001, Vol.20 (2), p.112
• Main Authors: Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson, Shapiro, Stephen, Bernier, Celeste-Marie, Cordle, Dan, Street, Joe, Whalan, Mark, Lustig, T J, Taylor, Sophia, Gair, Chris, Bone, Martyn, Horeck, Tanya, Lyons, James
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• Subjects: Colleges & universities
• ISSN: 1466-0407; 1758-9118
• DOI: 10.1386/ejac.20.2.112

Maria Lauret, Alice Walker . Houndmills and London: Macmillan Press, 2000, x+252pp., ISBN 0-333-59269-7 Cloth: 45.00; ISBN 0-333-59270-0 Paper: 14.99.Julie Ellison, Cato's Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Writing . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 242pp. ISBN 0-226-205967 Paper: 11.50; ISBN 0-226-205959 Cloth: 28.00.Alan J. Rice & Martin Crawford (eds.), Liberating Sojourn: Frederick Douglass and Transatlantic Reform . Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1999, vii + 217pp. ISBN 0-8203-2102-8 Cloth: 45.00; ISBN 0-8203-2129-X Paper: 20.00.Walter Nugent and Martin Ridge (eds.), The American West: The Anthology . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. 440pp. Paper: 14.95; Cloth: 30.50Lindon Barrett, Blackness and Value: Seeing Double . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 272pp. ISBN 0-521-62103-8 Cloth: 37.50.Charles Scruggs and Lee VanDemarr, Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 318pp. ISBN 0-8122-3451-0 Cloth: 33.50.Henry James, Hawthorne , edited by Kate Fullbrook. Nottingham: Trent Editions, 1999, xxiii+149pp. ISBN 0-905488-43-1 Paper: 6.99.Susan J. Rosowski, Editor, Cather Studies, Volume 3 . Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 303pp. ISBN-0-8032-3920-3 Cloth: 42.75.Keith Newlin and Joseph B. McCullough (eds.), Selected Letters of Hamlin Garland . Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998, xl+468pp. ISBN 0-8032-2160-6 Cloth: 52.00.Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summer Folks (eds.), The World Is Our Home: Society and Culture in Contemporary Southern Writing . Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000, 288pp. ISBN 0-8131-2166-3 Cloth: 29.95.Catherine Ross Nickerson, The Web of Iniquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women , Durham & London, Duke University Press, 1998, 275pp. ISBN 0-8223-2271-4, Cloth: 34.00; ISBN 0-8223-2251-X Paper: 11.95.Rick Altman, The American Film Musical . Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 400pp. ISBN 0-253-20514-X- Paper: 19.95.Karl Kroeber (ed.), Traditional Literatures of the American Indian: Texts and Interpretations (Second Edition), Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1997, 159pp. ISBN 0-8032-2733-7 Cloth: 32.95; ISBN 0-8032-7782-2 Paper 10.95. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]