Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1215/00659142-6685248
Michael Von Cannon
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway continue to attract considerable scholarly inquiry. This year, scholarship on Fitzgerald engages affect theory, gender and race identities, and visual culture while also focusing on literary influence, warfare, and the aesthetics and ethics of biography. The Great Gatsby receives no shortage of critical attention, but scholars also spotlight Tender is the Night and various short stories as well as Zelda Fitzgerald’s stories and novel. Likewise, scholarship on Hemingway emphasizes affect, influence, and wartime biography and war writing in addition to fictional appropriation, modernist aesthetics, and pedagogical strategies.
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Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1215/00659142-8225354
Todd H. Richardson
A wealth of scholarship attests to a rich year for Transcendentalist studies in 2015. Consideration of global and transnational contexts is particularly fruitful in Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso and David LaRocca’s edited collection, A Power to Translate the World: New Essays on Emerson and International Culture. The trend in contextualizing Thoreau and others in science studies has a remarkable boost in Richard B. Primack’s Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods. Engagement with social and political thought remains strong as well with a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Prose dedicated to Fuller and several strong essays on Theodore Parker.
丰富的学术成果证明，2015年是先验主义研究的丰饶之年。里卡多·米格尔-阿方索和大卫·拉罗卡的合集《翻译世界的力量:爱默生与国际文化新论》对全球和跨国背景的思考尤其富有成果。在理查德·b·普里马克(Richard B. Primack)的《瓦尔登湖变暖:气候变化来到梭罗的森林》(Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods)一书中，将梭罗和其他人置于科学研究背景下的趋势得到了显著推动。与社会和政治思想的接触也很强烈，《19世纪散文》专刊致力于富勒和几篇关于西奥多·帕克的文章。
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Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1215/00659142-8118552
J. Bird
The year’s biggest news is the completion of Autobiography of Mark Twain, its third volume giving us Twain’s full autobiography for the first time, a work that will confound many, especially general readers, but that provides a treasure trove for scholars and critics. Also notable are a huge study of Twain’s humor, a provocative book about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and two books about Mark Twain and China. Book chapters and articles span Twain’s career, with examinations of some works that are often overlooked. This year shows that Mark Twain studies are as alive as ever.
今年最大的新闻是《马克·吐温自传》(Autobiography of Mark Twain)的完成，它的第三卷首次为我们提供了马克·吐温的完整自传，这部作品可能会让许多人感到困惑，尤其是普通读者，但它为学者和评论家提供了一个宝库。同样值得注意的还有对吐温幽默的大量研究，一本关于《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》的引人入胜的书，以及两本关于马克·吐温和中国的书。书中的章节和文章涵盖了吐温的职业生涯，并对一些经常被忽视的作品进行了考察。今年表明，马克·吐温的研究一如既往地活跃。
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Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1215/00659142-3889967
Scott Slawinski
No one word, phrase, or clause can capture the wide variety of writings about the early American period published this year. The New England Puritans, slavery, Benjamin Franklin, the novel, and aesthetics are especially prominent, but a number of other topics attract attention too, including the Haitian Revolution, women and empire, poetry, and the theater. Though there are only a few studies of Native Americans, and the Eastern Seaboard continues to dominate, the scholarship in large measure ranges widely and displays the richness and vitality of the field.
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Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1215/00659142-4344271
J. Westover
The year 2015 proved to be a banner one for histories of American and modernist poetry, so much so that it is not possible to cover them all. Cambridge published one, and Richard Grey published another. Cambridge Companion to American Poets was also published this year. In addition, David E. Chinitz and Gail McDonald have edited Companion to Modernist Poetry. Because of space limitations, however, only the last title is covered.
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Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1215/00659142-8287947
Carol J. Singley, Joseph C. Murphy
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Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1215/00659142-3826165
Roark Mulligan
Literary critics have increasingly employed archaeological methods, discovering or rediscovering buried artifacts that shed light on past cultural practices but also on current issues. This focus on lesser-known works and neglected authors reveals a shifting literary canon, highlighting current social and cultural concerns. Although aesthetic, rhetorical, and structural analysis continues to serve as a methodology, art for art’s sake has taken a back seat to art as cultural artifact, whether the artifact is an unfamiliar poem or a once popular novel. Nowhere is this trend more obvious than in the field of African American literature, but even in the examination of realists and naturalists we find a focus on neglected authors and forgotten works. In this recovery of overlooked texts there is an emphasis not only on lesser-known compositions but also on the reasons they have been neglected.
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Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.1215/00659142-3955252
A. Dewey
Thankful to my predecessor, Jim Cocola, for (among other things) his category “Poetry and Its Others,” I begin this review with works that suggest new contexts and resulting ways of reading. I hope that they may also suggest new pathways through postwar U.S. poetry and the last century in general as well as construct bridges between existing trajectories, especially the continued difficulty integrating and relating white male and increasingly female canons, ethnic literatures, and competing canons of modernism, midcentury, and postmodernism versus a long modernist avant-garde.
感谢我的前任吉姆·科科拉（Jim Cocola）的“诗歌及其他人”（Poetry and Its Others）类别，我在这篇评论开始时提出了新的背景和由此产生的阅读方式。我希望他们也能在战后的美国诗歌和上个世纪提出新的道路，并在现有的轨迹之间架起桥梁，特别是整合和联系白人男性和越来越多的女性经典、种族文学以及现代主义、世纪中期和后现代主义与长期现代主义先锋派的竞争经典的持续困难。
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