Pub Date : 2016-10-08DOI: 10.1215/00659142-2680126
David J. Nordloh
I have noised complaints for some time now about the decline in the number and quality of printed reference materials. But the number, the variety, and the quality of the items parading before me this year lessen my concern. Handbooks and companions continue to proliferate, but dictionaries and encyclopedias have certainly not been crowded off the reference shelf altogether. The current array of publications includes solid work with a historical orientation, interesting contributions to the literatures of groups and regions and places, volumes addressing the increasingly insistent topics of gay and lesbian literature and the literature of the environment, and—the greatest number—materials focused on specific genres in their American manifestations, ranging from the Gothic and science fiction through the slave narrative and autobiography to the novel, poetry, and drama. Fortunate is the reference librarian who has not been totally transformed into an Internet-bound information specialist.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-08DOI: 10.1215/00659142-2846631
Robert D. Habich
This year a major scholarly collection broadens the contexts in which we consider Ralph Waldo Emerson, while perennial debates over his pragmatism are enlivened by placing his ideas alongside their applications in national and transnational politics. A major trend in scholarship involves the quality of Henry David Thoreau’s scientific fieldwork, and interesting studies address the gendered dimensions of his Walden experiment. In a literary-historical manifestation of the adage that “a rising tide lifts all boats,” both Margaret Fuller specifically and the Transcendentalists generally are buoyed by the long-overdue consideration of a “female genealogy of Transcendentalism” in a remarkable new collection of essays that expands the definitions of the movement laterally, revealing a web of new influences among women.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-08DOI: 10.1215/00659142-7328827
Michael Von Cannon
This year’s work on F. Scott Fitzgerald emphasizes influences on the writer as well as his engagement with socioeconomic theory, ethno-racial identities, and the other arts, including film, popular music, and theater. Several scholars expand on Fitzgerald’s Southern roots and writings (partially the result of the 12th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference in Montgomery, Alabama, in late 2013). As usual, The Great Gatsby receives the most attention, and the short stories feature more prominently than in years past. Scholarship on Ernest Hemingway also stresses influences on the writer and offers innovative perspectives on the Cuban and African works. Inquiry dedicated to reassessing Hemingway’s wartime biography and war writing predominates. In conjunction with the centennial of World War I scholars gravitate to the writer’s early war stories and A Farewell to Arms. But there is also a notable increase in critical engagement with Spanish Civil War texts, specifically For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Spanish Earth. In light of the vast amount of rich, engaging work on Fitzgerald and Hemingway, I must as always be selective in this commentary.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-08DOI: 10.1215/00659142-7328799
J. Bird
Two very different but excellent editions highlight the year. Henry Wonham edits a special issue of American Literary Realism, “Mark Twain and Economy”; Chad Rohman takes over the editorship of The Mark Twain Annual; and Alan Gribben brings the Mark Twain Journal back to a current publication schedule. Gribben also institutes a new feature, “Legacy Scholars,” overviews of the careers of prominent Twain scholars: the first, which I was honored to write, profiles David E. E. Sloane (MTJ 52, i: 9–17), and the second Lawrence I. Berkove, written by Joseph Csicsila (MTJ 52, ii: 9–23). The year brings more articles on Twain than in recent years, spanning his career but with particular emphasis on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, especially the ending, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
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Pub Date : 2016-10-08DOI: 10.1215/00659142-2003-1-123
Carol J. Singley, R. Thacker
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Pub Date : 2016-10-08DOI: 10.1215/00659142-2003-1-369
Jerome Klinkowitz
The more than half century covered by this chapter, and the 40 years during which it has been written, have witnessed a great number of cultural, social, and political transformations. Their impact on literature has been to change the nature of what scholars study. The term canon reformation identified this process early on, but after five decades of sometimes rambunctious activity commentators have settled into a more comfortable mode of appraisal. Cosmopolitanism now reflects the more winsome attitudes that have replaced the harsher tonalities of rebellion and reformation. As a mind-set it indicates the ultimate disposition of all this transformative activity, and as a foundation for critical work it promises a more inclusive and yet discerning perspective. Positive examples of this method abound in this year’s scholarship, providing useful accounts of what is happening to fiction in our time.
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