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JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES PUBLISHED FOR THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES VOLUME 26 1992 Editor: MICHAEL HEALE Associate Editor: RICHARD GRAY Number 1 pages 1-145 Number 2 147-302 Number 3 303-474 The right of the University of Cambridge to print and sell all manner of books was granted by Henry VIII in 1534. The University has printed and published continuously since 1584. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE NEW YORK PORT CHESTER MELBOURNE SYDNEY Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CBz 1RP 40 West 2oth Street, New York, NY 1oo11—q211 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Victoria 3166, Australia © Cambridge University Press 1992 Printed in Great Britain by the University Press, Cambridge Articles BENDER, Bert: Kate Chopin’s Quarrel with Darwin before The Awakening BoscHMAN, RosBert: Aane Bradstreet and Elizabeth Bishop: Nature, Culture and Gender in “‘ Contemplations’’ and “‘ At the Fishhouses”’ Burk, KATHLEEN: The Lineaments of Foreign Policy: The United States and a ‘‘ New World Order’’, 1919-1939 Davies, GARETH: War on Dependency: Liberal Individualism and the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 Dean, Eric T., Jr.: The Myth of the Troubled and Scorned Vietnam Veteran FORLAND, Tor Eaix: Bringing It All Back Home ot Another Side of Bob Dylan: Midwestern Isolationist GARDNER, Lioyp: A Few Words on Christopher Thorne’s Pursuit of American Political Culture GITELMAN, Lisa: Negotiating a Vocabulary for Urban Infrastructure, Or, The WPA Meets the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles HALPERN, Rick: The Iron Fist and the Velvet Glove: Welfare Capitalism in Chicago’s Packinghouses, 1921-1933 Hart, VIviIEN: Feminism and Bureaucracy: The Minimum Wage Experiment in the District of Columbia KORNFELD, Eve: Reconstructing American Law: The Politics of Narrative and Eudora Welty’s Empathic Vision Oxson, ALison G.: The Eizhteenth Century: The London Dissenters’ Lobbies and The American Colonies Pornton, Marcia: Imaging Nationalism in the Cold War: The Foundation of the American National Portrait Gallery Roserts, DiANE: A Precarious Pedestal: The Confederate Woman in Faulkner’s Unvanquished THomMpsoNn, JOHN A.: Another Look at the Downfall of“ Fortress Ame- rica”’ THORNE, CHRISTOPHER: American Political Culture and the End of the Cold War General Index Notes and Comments Lewis, FFRANGCON: Women, Death and Theatricality in The Blithedale Romance Munstow, ALAN: A Reply to Richard King, ‘‘ The Discipline of Fact/The Freedom of Fiction?” Rocers, DeBoraH D.: Rockabye Lady: Pregnancy as Punishment in Popular Culture Tick, STANLEY: Sailing Again on “ The Patagonia”’ VICKERS, JACKIE: Women and Wealth: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton and Paul Bourget Review Essays Baatz, SIMON: Appropriating the New World KinG, RICHARD H.: Present at the Creation: Marcus Cunliffe and American Studies MESSENT, PETER: Reconstructing Papa: New Directions in Hemingway Criticism State of the Art Roserts, Priscrua: “ A// the Right People”: The Historiography of the American Foreign Policy Establishment General Index Reviews Abe Fortas: A Biography, by Laura Kalman, reviewed by Gareth Davies, 298 Apams, D. K., review of Mythes Ruraux et Urbains dans la Culture Americaine, edited by Serge Ricard, 123 Apams, JupitH A., The American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Thrills, reviewed by Margaret Walsh, 133 After Eden: The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser, by Conrad E. Ostwalt, Jr., reviewed by Kate Fullbrook, 120 ALLEN, Ray, Singing in the Spirit: African-American Sacred Quartets in New York City, reviewed by John White, 444 America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink, by Kenneth M. Stampp, reviewed by Bruce Collins, 281 American Amusement Park Industry, The: A History of Technology and Thrills, by Judith A. Adams, reviewed by Margaret Walsh, 133 American Anticommunism : Combating the Enemy Within, 1830-1970, by M.J. Heale, reviewed by Rupert Wilkinson, 131 American Chameleon: Individualism in Trans-national Context, edited by Richard O. Curry and Lawrence B. Goodheart, reviewed by Richard Crockatt, 459 American Experience in Vietnam, The: A Reader, edited by Grace Sevy, reviewed by David Seed, 279 American Labour and Consensus Capitalism, 1935-1990, by Patrick Ren- shaw, reviewed by Stephen W. Baskerville, 458 American Political Ideas: Traditions ¢ Usages, by Michael Foley, reviewed by Jon Roper, 134 American Popular Music in the 20th Century, by Russell and David Sanjek, reviewed by Michael Paris, 451 American Revolution, The, by Colin Bonwick, reviewed by R.C. Simmons, 294 American Revolution in Law, The: Anglo-American Jurisprudence before John Marshall, by Shannon C. Stimson, reviewed by J.R. Oldfield, 97 American Studies: Essays in Honor of Marcus Cunliffe, edited by Brian Holden Reid and John White, reviewed by Richard King, 265 American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre, by Rob Wilson, reviewed by R.W. (Herbie) Butterfield, 455 American T. S. Eliot, The: A Study of the Early Writings, by Eric Sigg, reviewed by David Ayers, 112 ANDERSON, ViRGINIA Dgeyoun, New Englana’s Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century, reviewed by Roger Thompson, 467 vi General Index Anglo-American Naval Relations, 1917-1919, edited by Michael Simpson, reviewed by John Major, 136 ANTELYES, PETER, Tales of Adventurous Enterprise: Washington Irving and the Poetics of Western Experience, reviewed by Wayne Franklin, 140 Approaches to Teaching Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, edited by Donald D. Kummings, reviewed by Colin Nicholson, 125 April Twilights (1903), rev. ed., by Willa Cather, edited by Bernice Slote, reviewed by Kate Fullbrook, 120 ARMESTO, FELIPE FERNANDEZ-, see FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, FELIPE Arthur Mizener: Literary Critic With a Political Conscience 1935-85, by S. Gorley Putt, reviewed by Inderjeet Parmar, 290 Ayers, Davin, review of The American T. S. Eliot: A Study of the Early Writings, by Eric Sigg, 112 review of T. S. Eliot’s Silent Voices, by John Mayer, 112 Baatz, SIMON, review of Columbus, by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, 435 review of Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World, by Stephen Greenblatt, 435 review of The Portuguese Columbus: Secret Agent of King John II, by Mascarenhas Barreto, 435 review of The World of Christopher Columbus, by William D. Phillips Jr. and Carla Rahn Phillips, 435 BAILEY, CHRISTOPHER J., review of Mr. Bush’s War: Adventures in the Politics of Illusion, by Stephen R. Graubard, 301 BARRETO, MASCARENHAS, The Portuguese Columbus: Secret Agent of King John II, reviewed by Simon Baatz, 435 BASKERVILLE, STEPHEN W., review of American Labour and Consensus Capitalism, 1935-1990, by Patrick Renshaw, 458 BELL, MILLIceNT, Meaning in Henry James, reviewed by Tamara Follini, 472 Beneath the Clouds of the Promised Land: The Survival of Nova Scotia Blacks, Volume II: 1800-1989, by Bridglal Pachai, reviewed by George Shepperson, 291 BENSON, JACKSON J., (ed.), New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, reviewed by Peter Messent, 269 Bergson and American Culture: The Worlds of Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens, by Tom Quirk, reviewed by Kate Fullbrook, 120 BERLIN, IRA ef a/. (eds.), Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation 1861-1867, Series I, Vol. 3, The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South, reviewed by Peter Way, 117 Berry, R. MicHAEL, MAupE, GEORGE and SCHUCHALTER, JERRY, Frontiers of American Political Experience, reviewed by Douglas Eden, 135 BERTENS, Hans, see D?HAEN, THEO Blackwell Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, The, edited by Jack P. Greene and J.R. Pole, reviewed by Keith Mason, 457 Buss, Ropert M., Revolution and Empire: English Politics and the American Colonies in the 17th Century, reviewed by Philip S. Haffenden, 95 General Index vii review of The Transformation of Early American History: Society, Authority, and Ideology, edited by James A. Henretta, Michael Kammen and Stanley J. Katz, 450 Bonwick, Coin, The American Revolution, reviewed by R.C. Simmons, 294 BouDREAU, GorDON V., The Roots of ‘Walden’ and the Tree of Life, reviewed by Norman Vance, 99 BowLeEs, KATE, see GIDLEY, Mick Branb, Dana, The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, reviewed by Kate Fullbrook, 452 Brook, Tuomas, The New Historicism and Other Old-Fashioned Topics, reviewed by Tracey Hill, 292 Brooks, COLIN, review of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 28, Nov. 1st 1778-Feb. 28th 1779, edited by B. Oberg, 126 BurcHELL, R. A., review of Lincoln, Douglas, and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate, by David Zarefsky, 137 BUTTERFIELD, R. W. (HERBIE), review of American Sublime: The Gen- ealogy ofa Poetic Genre, by Rob Wilson, 455 review of Thoreau’s Morning Work: Memory and Perception in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, the Journal and Walden, by H. Daniel Peck, 286 review of Walks in the World: Representation and Experience in Modern American Poetry, by Roger Gilbert, 441 Calling Home: Working-Class Women’s Writings, edited by Janet Zandy, reviewed by Kate Rhodes, 130 Canup, JOHN, Out of the Wilderness: The Emergence of an American Identity in Colonial New England, reviewed by Michael Kaufmann, 123 CARSON, CLAYBORNE, LUKER, RALPH E. and RussELL, PENNy (eds.), The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume I: Called to Serve, January 1929-June 1951, teviewed by Brian Ward, 470 Castles of Our Conscience: Social Control and the American State, 1800-198), by William G. Staples, reviewed by Inderjeet Parmar, 102 Cather Studies, Vol. 1, edited by Susan J. Rosowski, reviewed by Kate Fullbrook, 120 Catuer, Witia, April Twilights (1903), rev. ed., edited by Bernice Slote, reviewed by Kate Fullbrook, 120 Cayton, Mary Kuprsec, Emerson’s Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800-1845, reviewed by Vance Crummett, 447 CIA and the Marshall Plan, The, by Sallie Pisani, reviewed by Mark Ellis, 439 CLARK, CHRISTOPHER, The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Mas- sachusetts, 1780-1860, reviewed by Donald J. Ratcliffe, 445 CLARKE, GRAHAM, Walt Whitman: The Poem as Private History, reviewed by David Murray, 449 CMIEL, KENNETH, Democratic Eloquence: The Fight over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America, reviewed by Robert Cook, 299 viii General Index Coates, PETER A., review of The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology, by Max Oelschlaeger, 296 Coates, PETER A., The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy: Technology, Conservation and the Frontier, reviewed by Alun C. Davies, 142 COLLINS, BRUCE, review of America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink, by Kenneth M. Stampp, 281 Columbus, by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, reviewed by Simon Baatz, 435 Consolations of Space, The: The Place of Romance in Hawthorne, Melville, and James, by Pamela Schirmeister, reviewed by Wayne Franklin, 140 ConyNE, GEORGE, review of Explaining American Politics, edited by Robert Williams, 289 review of Public Law and Democracy in the United Kingdom and the United States of America, by Paul Craig, 300 Cook, Rosert, review of Democratic Eloquence: The Fight over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America, by Kenneth Cmiel, 299 REVIEW OF Half Slave and Half Free: The Roots of Civil War, by Bruce Levine, 469 Coo.ey, JOHN (ed.), Mark Twain’s Aquarium: The Samuel Clemens Angelfish Correspondence 1905-1910, reviewed by John Mowat, 295 Coyne, MICHAEL, review of Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memories, and the American Hero, by Karal Ann Marling and John Wetenhall, 285 CraiG, Paut, Public Law and Democracy in the United Kingdom and the United States of America, reviewed by George Conyne, 300 Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America, by Neil Jumonville, reviewed by Hugh Wilford, 127 CrocKkaTT, RICHARD, review of American Chameleon: Individualism in Trans-national Context, edited by Richard O. Curry and Lawrence B. Goodheart, 459 CRUMMETT, VANCE, review of Emerson’s Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800-1845, by Mary Kupiec Cayton, 447 review of Vzrtue’s Hero: Emerson, Antislavery and Reform, by Len Gougeon, 447 CunutFFE, Marcus, In Search of America: Transatlantic Essays 1951-1990, reviewed by Richard H. King, 265 Curry, RIcHARD O., and GOODHEART, LAWRENCE B. (eds.), American Chameleon: Individualism in Trans-national Context, reviewed by Richard Crockatt, 459 D’HAEN, THEO, and BErTENS, Hans (eds.), History and Postwar Writing, Postmodern Studies 3, reviewed by Deborah L. Madsen, 103 DALLEK, Rosert, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960, reviewed by M.J. Heale, 302 Davies, ALUN C., review of The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy: Technology, Conservation and the Frontier, by Peter A. Coates, 142 Davis, GARETH, review of Abe Fortas: A Biography, by Laura Kalman, 298 General Index Davies, P. J., and WaALpsTEtn, F. A. (eds.), Political Issues in America: the 1990s, reviewed by David Morgan, 297 Davies, Puiuip JOHN (ed.), Science Fiction, Social Conflict and War, reviewed by Brian Jarvis, 116 Daybreak Boys, The: Essays on the Literature of the Beat Generation, by Gregory Stephenson, reviewed by David Glover, 119 De Hart, JANE SHERRON, see MATHEWS, DONALD G. Democratic Eloquence: The Fight over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America, by Kenneth Cmiel, reviewed by Robert Cook, 299 Ditton, G. M., review of The Origins of NATO, edited by Joseph Smith, 96 Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking, and Investigations 1946-1990, by David R. Mayhew, reviewed by Malcolm Walles, 461 Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition, by Jerome Klinkowitz, reviewed by Clare F. Thomlinson, 464 Dona.pson, Scott (ed.), New Essays on A Farewell to Arms, reviewed by Peter Messent, 269 EpEN, Douctas, review of Frontiers of American Political Experience, by R. Michael Berry, George Maude and Jerry Schuchalter, 135 review of Understanding the US Presidency, by Malcolm Walles, 460 Electric City, The: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930, by Harold L. Platt, reviewed by David E. Nye, 128 Electrifying America: Social Meanings ofa New Technology, 1880—1940, by David E. Nye, reviewed by Stuart Kidd, 104 EL.is, MARK, review of The CIA and the Marshall Plan, by Sallie Pisani, 439 review of North American Spies: New Revisionist Essays, edited by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones and Andrew Lownie, 439 Emerson’s Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800-1845, by Mary Kupiec Cayton, reviewed by Vance Crummett, 447 Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference, by Diana Fuss, reviewed by Duncan Webster, 129 Explaining American Politics, edited by Robert Williams, reviewed by George Conyne, 289 Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism, by Tim Redman, reviewed by Peter Nicholls, 289 Fatal Years: Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth-Century America, by Samuel H. Preston and Michael R. Haines, reviewed by S. Jay Kleinberg, 107 FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, FELIPE, Co/umbus, reviewed by Simon Baatz, 435 Fictions of Capital: The American Novel from James to Mailer, by Richard Godden, reviewed by Alfred Habegger, 1o1 Frureis, ALAN, Wallace Stevens and the Actual World, reviewed by Tony Sharpe, 283 FLIGSTEIN, Net, The Transformation of Corporate Control, reviewed by Howell J. Harris, 106 x General Index Fo.ey, MicHAEL, American Political Ideas: Traditions t Usages, reviewed by Jon Roper, 134 Fouuini, TAMARA, review of Meaning in Henry James, by Millicent Bell, 472 Fouiy, Martin H., review of Remembering War: A US-Soviet Dialogue, by Helene Keyssar and Vladimir Pozner, 283 Forever Pursuing Genesis: The Myth of Eden in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut, by Leonard Mustazza, reviewed by Will Kaufman, 454 Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing and Representation in North American Indian Texts, by David Murray, reviewed by Peter Hulme, 109 Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature, edited by Philip K. Jason, reviewed by David Seed, 279 FRANKLIN, WAYNE, review of The Consolations of Space: The Place of Romance in Hawthorne, Melville, and James, by Pamela Schirmeister, 140 review of James Fenimore Cooper, by Robert Emmet Long, 140 review of Tales of Adventurous Enterprise: Washington Irving and the Poetics of Western Experience, by Peter Antelyes, 140 Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation 1861-1867, Series 1, Vol. 3, The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South, edited by Ira Berlin et a/., reviewed by Peter Way, 117 Frivolity Unbound: Six Matters of the Camp Novel, by Robert F. Kiernan, reviewed by Michael Moon, 115 Frontiers of American Political Experience, by R. Michael Berry, George Maude and Jerry Schuchalter, reviewed by Douglas Eden, 135 FULLBROOK, KATE, review of After Eden: The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser, by Conrad E. Ostwalt, Jr., 120 review of April Twilights (1903), rev. ed. by Willa Cather, edited by Bernice Slote, 120 review of Bergson and American Culture: The Worlds of Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens, by Tom Quirk, 120 review of Cather Studies, Vol. 1, edited by Susan J. Rosowski, 120 review of The Spectator and the City in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, by Dana Brand, 452 review of Willa Cather’s Modernism: A Study of Style and Technique, by Jo Ann Middleton, 120 FULLER, MARGARET, “‘ These Sad But Glorious Days”’: Dispatches From Europe, 1846-1850, edited by Larry J. Reynolds and Susan Belasco Smith, reviewed by Susan Mary Grant, 443 Fuss, Diana, Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference, reviewed by Duncan Webster, 129 Gay Fictions: Wilde to Stonewall: Studies in a Male Homosexual Literary Tradition, by Claude J. Summers, reviewed by Michael Moon, 115 Grpey, Mick, with Bowxes, Kate (eds.), Locating the Shakers: Cultural Origins and Legacies of an American Religious Movemeni, reviewed by David Turley, 111