Journal of American Studies Volume 30 1996 EDITOR MICHAEL HEALE ASSOCIATE EDITOR RICHARD GRAY Number 1 pages 1-187 Number 2 189-344 Number 3 345-501 3 CAMBRIDGE iy” UNIVERSITY PRESS Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RP The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CBz 2RU, United Kingdom 40 West 2oth Street, New York, NY 10011-4211 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia © Cambridge University Press 1996 Printed in the United Kingdom by the University Press, Cambridge Articles Attyn, Davin: Private Acts/ Public Policy: Alfred Kinsey, the American Law institute and the Privatization of American Sexual Morality ANNESLEY, JAMES: Decadence and Disquiet: Recent American Fiction and the Coming Fin de Siecle BEIDLER, Puiuip D.: Mr Roberts and American Remembering; or Why Major Major Major Major Looks Like Henry Fonda BLANCHARD, Mary W.: The Soldier and the Aesthete: Homosexuality and Popular Culture in Gilded Age America Cuu.is, Puitie: The Limits of Progressivism: Louis Brandeis, Democracy and the Corporation DumsrELL, JOHN: The Johnson Administration and the British Labour Government: Vietnam, the Pound and East of Suez Garvey, Timotuy J.: The Spectacle of Plains: Public Evidence, Personal Invention, and the Painting of Roger Brown Gazer, LEE and Key, Susan: Carry Me Back: Nostalgia for the Old South in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture HAMILTON, CYNTHIA S.: Revisions, Rememories and Exorcisms: Toni Morrison and the Slave Narrative KENNEDY, Liam: Alien Nation: White Male Paranoia and Imperial Culture in the United States Mapican, ANDREW J.: What Fame Is: Bukowski’s Exploration of Self MANNING, Susan: Naming of Parts; or, The Comforts of Classification: Thomas Jefferson’s Construction of America as Fact and Myth Munsy, JONATHAN: Manhattan Melodrama’s “ Art of the Weak”: Telling History from the Other Side in the 1930s Talking Gangster Film STONELEY, PETER: Rewriting the Gold Rush: Twain, Harte and Homosociality WHITFIELD, STEPHEN J.: Limited Engagement: The Quiet American as History General Index Notes and Comments Paris, MICHAEL: Country Blues on the Screen: The Leadbelly Films SHINGLER, MARTIN: The Fourth Warner Brother and Her Role in the War Review Essay PeRLorF, Marjorie: Looking for the Real Carl Rakosi: Collecteds and Selecteds State of the Art Essay MACKENTHUN, GeEsa: Adding Empire to the Study of American Culture General Index Reviews ADCULT USA: The Triumph of Advertising in American Culture, by James B. Twitchell, reviewed by Ian F. A. Bell, 338 Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century, by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, reviewed by John Muckle, 496 Allegory in America: From Puritanism to Postmodernism, by Deborah L. Madsen, reviewed by Val Gough, 495 ALLEN, Gay WItson, and Foxtsom, Ep (eds.), Walt Whitman and the World, reviewed by Joe Moran, 493 American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender, by Robyn Wiegman, reviewed by Kate Fullbrook, 295 American Photographs in Europe, edited by David E. Nye and Mick Gidley, reviewed by Stuart Kidd, 310 American Revolution in Indian Country, The, by Colin G. Calloway, reviewed by Martin Padget, 315 American Studies: Home Thoughts From Abroad, British and American Studies in Torun, Vol. I, edited by Maria Wiszniowska, reviewed by David Arnold, 288 Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America, by Paul Avrich, reviewed by Hugh Wilford, 165 ANDERSON, ROBERT CHARLES, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, reviewed by Roger Thompson, 298 ANDREW, CHRISTOPHER, For the President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush, reviewed by Howard Temperley, 183 ANDREWS, BEN, review of Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism and the Atomic Age, by Alan Nadel, 494 Anglo-American Relations in the Twentieth Century, by Alan P. Dobson, reviewed by Inderjeet Parmar, 312 Anne Tyler as Novelist, edited by Dale Salwak, reviewed by Judie Newman, 323 ARNOLD, Davin, review of American Studies: Home Thoughts From Abroad, British and American Studies in Torun, Vol. 1, edited by Maria Wiszniowska, 288 ASHER, KENNETH, T. S. Eliot and Ideology, reviewed by Jonathan Veitch, 150 AvricH, Paut, Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America, reviewed by Hugh Wilford, 165 Baatz, SIMON, review of Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and Madison, by 1. Bernard Cohen, 296 Baptism of Fire: The Republican Party in Iowa, 1838-1878, by Robert Cook, reviewed by Bruce Collins, 137 Barbie’s Queer Accessories, by Erica Rand, reviewed by Diane Roberts, 171 BarcLay, DonaALp A., MaAGutreE, JAMES H. and WiLp, PETER (eds.), Into the General Index Wilderness Dream: Exploration Narratives of the American West, 1500-1805, reviewed by Martin Padget, 172 Barry Goldwater, by Robert Alan Goldberg, reviewed by M. J. Heale, 300 Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy Presidency, by Donald Gibson, reviewed by Mark J. White, 154 Bauer, Dae M., Edith Wharton’s Brave New Politics, reviewed by Kasia Boddy, 317 BEDERMAN, GatL, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917, reviewed by Kevin White, 291 Bett, Ian F. A., review of ADCULT USA: The Triumph of Advertising in American Culture, by James B. Twitchell, 338 review of Putting Popular Music In Its Place, by Charles Hamm, 134 Bexx, MILiicent (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton, reviewed by Kasia Boddy, 317 BENTLEY, Nancy, The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James, Wharton, reviewed by Holly Boren, 490 BERCOvITCH, SACVAN (ed.), The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume Two: Prose Writing 1820-1865, reviewed by Kate Fullbrook, 162 BERNSTEIN, IRVING, Guns or Butter: The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson, reviewed by Gareth Davies, 477 Beyond the Liberal Consensus: A Political History of the United States Since 1965, by Ivan Morgan, reviewed by Alex Waddan, 146 Black Progress Question, The: Explaining the Afro-American Predicament, by Stephen Burman, reviewed by John White, 466 Black Women as Cultural Readers, by Jacqueline Bobo, reviewed by Clare Weissenberg, 318 Buiatz, Perry K., Democratic Miners: Work and Labor Relations in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1875-1925, teviewed by Rick Halpern, 142 Boxso, JACQUELINE, Black Women as Cultural Readers, reviewed by Clare Weissenberg, 318 Boppy, Kasia, review of The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton, edited by Millicent Bell, 317 review of Edith Wharton’s Brave New Politics, by Dale M. Bauer, 317 review of Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities, edited by J. Gerald Kennedy, 165 Body in Late Capitalist America, The, by Donald M. Lowe, reviewed by Brian Jarvis, 331 Bott, Curistine, Feminist Ferment: “The Woman Question” in the USA and England 1870-1940, reviewed by Kate Fullbrook, 339 review of The Founders of America, by Francis Jennings, 178 Boren, HO ty, review of The Ethnography of Manners: Hawthorne, James, Wharton, by Nancy Bentley, 490 Bound by Our Constitution: Women, Workers, and the Minimum Wage, by Vivien Hart, reviewed by Elizabeth J. Clapp, 186 British in the Americas, 1480-1815, The, by Anthony McFarlane, reviewed by Kenneth Morgan, 290 BurMAN, STEPHEN, The Black Progress Question: Explaining the Afro-American Predicament, reviewed by John White, 466 General Index vii BuTLER, ROBERT, see HAKUTANI, YOSHINOBU BUTTERFIELD, R. W. (HERBIE), review of A Jean Toomer Reader: Selected Unpublished Writings, edited by Frederik L. Rusch, 168 review of Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism, by Walter Benn Michaels, 483 review of Robinson Jeffers and a Galaxy of Writers: Essays in Honour of William H. Nolte, edited by William B. Thesing, 157 Cattoway, Coutin G., The American Revolution in Indian Country, reviewed by Martin Padget, 315 Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism, The: Howells to London, edited by Donald Pizer, reviewed by Craig Monk, 322 Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton, The, edited by Millicent Bell, reviewed by Kasia Boddy, 317 Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau, The, edited by Joel Myerson, reviewed by Tjebbe A. Westendorp, 469 Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman, The, edited by Ezra Greenspan, reviewed by Tjebbe A. Westendorp, 340 Cambridge History of American Literature, The, Volume Two: Prose Writing 1820-1865, edited by Sacvan Bercovitch, reviewed by Kate Fullbrook, 162 Cancer Wars, by Robert N. Proctor, reviewed by Paolo Palladino, 464 Captured by Texts: Puritan to Postmodern Images of Indian Captivity, by Gary L. Ebersole, reviewed by David Murray, 330 Carl Rakosi: Man and Poet, edited by Michael Heller, reviewed by Marjorie Perloff, 271 CuasE, DAMIEN, review of Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth and Ideology in Popular American Film, edited by Joel W. Martin & Conrad E. Ostwalt, Jr., 327 CHEPESUIK, RON, Sixties Radicals, Then and Now: Candid Conversations With Those Who Shaped The Era, reviewed by Brian Ward, 174 Christmas in America: A History, by Penne L. Restad, reviewed by Joe Moran, 488 Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America, by Mark H. Rose, reviewed by Margaret Walsh, 489 City in African American Literature, The, edited by Yoshinobu Hakutani and Robert Butler, reviewed by Christine Macleod, 159 Civil War in Popular Culture, The: A Reuseable Past, by Jim Cullen, reviewed by Craig Monk, 148 Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South, edited by J. R. Oldfield, reviewed by Emily West, 476 CLaGGETT, WILLIAM J. M., see SHAFER, ByRON E. Capp, ELIZABETH J., review of Bound by Our Constitution: Women, Workers, and the Minimum Wage, by Vivien Hart, 186 Coates, PETER A., review of Neither Wolf nor Dog: American Indians, Environment and Agrarian Change, by David Rich Lewis, 175 CouEn, I. BERNARD, Science and the Founding Fathers : Science in the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and Madison, reviewed by Simon Baatz, 296 COHEN, SHELDON S., Yankee Sailors in British Gaols: Prisoners of War at Forton and Mill, 1777-1783, reviewed by Richard Harding, 323 Collected Poems of Carl Rakosi, The, by Carl Rakosi, reviewed by Marjorie Perloff, 271 viii General Index Couns, Bruce, review of Baptism of Fire: The Republican Party in Iowa, 1838-1878, by Robert Cook, 136 review of Lincoln, Land, and Labor, 1809-60, by Oliver Frayseé, translated by Sylvia Neely, 137 Companion to “‘ The Crying of Lot 49”, A, by J. Kerry Grant, reviewed by David Seed, 182 Conroy, Davip W., In Public Houses: Drink and the Revolution of Authority in Colonial Massachusetts, reviewed by P. J. Thompson, 314 CONSTANTINE, STEPHEN, teview of From the Wright Brothers to Top Gun: Aviation, Nationalism and Popular Cinema, by Michael Paris, 302 Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form, by Priscilla Wald, reviewed by David Rogers, 170 Containment Culture: American Narratives, Postmodernism and the Atomic Age, by Alan Nadel, reviewed by Ben Andrews, 494 Cook, Rosert, Baptism of Fire: The Republican Party in Iowa, 1838-1678, reviewed by Bruce Collins, 137 Crocr, Paut JEROME, Science and Religion in the Era of William James, Volume I: Eclipse of Certainity, 1820-1880, reviewed by Nicholas J. Cull, 163 Crossing the Deadly Ground: United States Army Tactics, 1865-1899, by Perry D. Jamieson, reviewed by Brian Holden Reid, 136 CroziER, ANDREW, see RAKOsI, CARL CRUMPACKER, LAURIE, see MOYNIHAN, RuTH BARNES CusBaANn, Larry, see Tyack, DAvID Cutt, Nicwo.as J., review of Science and Religion in the Era of William James, Volume I: Eclipse of Certainity, 1820-1880, by Paul Jerome Croce, 163 CuLLEN, Jim, The Civil War in Popular Culture: A Reuseable Past, reviewed by Craig Monk, 148 Curtin, MICHAEL, Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics, reviewed by Tony Shaw, 467 Davies, GARETH, review of Guns or Butter: The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson, by Irving Bernstein, 477 Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America, by Peter C. Mancall, reviewed by Peter Marshall, 463 Democratic Miners: Work and Labor Relations in the Anthracite Coal Industry, 1875-1925, by Perry K. Blatz, reviewed by Rick Halpern, 142 DENNIS, HELEN M., review of The Nature of the Place: A Study of Great Plains Fiction, by Diane Dufva Quantic, 286 Drerricu, Juxia, The Old Left in History and Literature, reviewed by Eric Homberger, 341 Dosson, ALAN P., Anglo-American Relations in the Twentieth Century, reviewed by Inderjeet Parmar, 312 DuMBRELL, JOHN, review of With Friends Like These: Reagan, Bush and Saddam, 1982-1990, by Bruce W. Jentleson, 153 DuMENIL, Lynn, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 19205, reviewed by Neil A. Wynn, 285 Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis, 2nd ed with CD, by Jeff Todd Titon, reviewed by John White, 133 General Index ix EBERSOLE, Gary L., Captured by Texts: Puritan to Postmodern Images of Indian Captivity, reviewed by David Murray, 330 EpEN, Douctas, review of The Myth of American Individualism: The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought, by Barry Alan Shain, 156 Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit, by Carol J. Singley, reviewed by Anneke Leenhouts, 472 Edith Wharton’s Brave New Politics, by Dale M. Bauer, reviewed by Kasia Boddy, 317 EMERSON, RALPH WALDO, (GOUGEON, LEN and Myerson, JOEL (eds)), Emerson’s Antislavery Writings, reviewed by Martin Halliwell, 164 Emerson’s Antislavery Writings, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Len Gougeon and Joel Myerson, reviewed by Martin Halliwell, 164 Errant Art of Moby Dick, The: the Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies, by William V. Spanos, reviewed by Val Gough, 304 Ethnography of Manners, The: Hawthorne, James, Wharton, by Nancy Bentley, reviewed by Holly Boren, 490 Experts and Politicians: Reform Challenges to Machine Politics in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago, by Kenneth Finegold, reviewed by J. F. Lennon, 140 Ezra Pound and Senator Bronson Cutting: A Political Correspondence, 1930-1935, edited by E. P. Walkiewicz and Hugh Witemeyer, reviewed by Clive Meachen, 485 Feminist Ferment: “The Woman Question” in the USA and England, 1870-1940, by Christine Bolt, reviewed by Kate Fullbrook, 339 FINEGOLD, KENNETH, Experts and Politicians: Reform Challenges to Machine Politics in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago, reviewed by J. F. Lennon, 140 FLAVELL, JULIE M., review of Revolutionary America 1763 to 1800, by Thomas L. Purvis, 342 Fotsom, Ep, see ALLEN, GAY WILSON For the President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush, by Christopher Andrew, reviewed by Howard Temperley, 183 Founders of America, The, by Francis Jennings, reviewed by Christine Bolt, 178 Frank Sinatra Reader, The, edited by Steven Petkov & Leonard Mustazza, reviewed by John White, 491 Franklin, Wayne, and STEINER, MicHaet (eds.), Mapping American Culture, reviewed by Kate Fullbrook, 473 FRAYSSE, OLIVIER (trans. by Sytvra NEELY), Lincoln, Land, and Labor, 1809-60, reviewed by Bruce Collins, 137 FRIEDMAN, MELVIN J., and SIEGEL, BEN (eds.), Traditions, Voices, Dreams: The American Novel Since the, 1960s, reviewed by Judie Newman, 481 From the Wright Brothers to Top Gun: Aviation, Nationalism and Popular Cinema, by Michael Paris, reviewed by Stephen Constantine, 302 FULLBROOK, KaTE, review of American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender, by Robyn Wiegman, 295 review of The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume Two: Prose Writing, 1820-1865, edited by Sacvan Bercovitch, 162 General Index review of Feminist Ferment: “The Woman Question” in the USA and England, 1870-1940, by Christine Bolt, 339 review of Mapping American Culture, edited by Wayne Franklin and Michael Steiner, 473 Future Imperfect: The Mixed Blessings of Technology in America, by Howard P. Segal, reviewed by Peter J. Ling, 179 GABBARD, KRIn (ed.), Representing Jazz and Jazz Among the Discourses, reviewed by Richard Palmer, 289 Gipson, Dona.p, Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy Presidency, reviewed by Mark J. White, 154 Gip.ey, Mick, see Nye, Davin E. Gites, James R., The Naturalistic Inner-City Novel in America: Encounters with the Fat Man, reviewed by Tim Woods, 474 GtasseR, RutH, My Music is My Flag: Puerto Rican Musicians and Their New York Communities, 1917-1940, teviewed by Michael Paris, 313 GOLDBERG, RoBEert ALAN, Barry Goldwater, reviewed by M. J. Heale, 300 Gore Vidal: Writer Against the Grain, edited by Jay Parini, reviewed by Joe Moran, 160 Gothic Traditions and Narrative Techniques in the Fiction of Eudora Welty, by Ruth D. Weston, reviewed by Kate Rhodes, 139 GouGEON, LEN, see EMERSON, RALPH WALDO GoucGu, VAL, review of A/legory in America: From Puritanism to Postmodernism, by Deborah L. Madsen, 495 review of The Errant Art of Moby Dick: the Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies, by William V. Spanos, 304 review of The Literature of Labor and the Labors of Literature, by Cindy Weinstein, 161 review of Novel Arguments: Reading Innovative American Fiction, by Richard Walsh, 332 GRAFF, GERALD, and PHELAN, JAMES (eds.), Mark Twain “ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”: A Case Study in Critical Controversy, reviewed by Peter Messent, 499 GRANT, J. KERRY, A Companion to “The Crying of Lot 49”, reviewed by David Seed, 182 Gray, Ricuarp, The Life of William Faulkner: A Cultural Biography, reviewed by Richard H. King, 143 Great Migration Begins, The: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson, reviewed by Roger Thompson, 298 GREEN, Marci R., review of The Science and Politics of Racial Research, by William H. Tucker, 152 GREENSPAN, Ezra (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman, reviewed by Tjebbe A. Westendorp, 340 Gullah Statesman: Robert Smalls from Slavery to Congress, 1839-1915, by Edward A. Miller, Jr., reviewed by Kevern J. Verney, 149 Guns or Butter: The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson, by Irving Bernstein, reviewed by Gareth Davies, 477 HAKUTANI, YOSHINOBU and But Ler, Rosert (eds.), The City in African American Literature, reviewed by Christine Macleod, 159