AMS volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Back matter THE BOOK OF CONCORD Thoreau's Life as a Writer William Howarth In this remarkable portrait William Howarth focuses on Thoreau's Journal, tracing the history of Thoreau's imagination and placing the popular images of Thoreau as mystic, radical and naturalist in the context of his life as a writer. 00.6539 3 £3.95 272pp January 1984 THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE Nathaniel Hawthorne Introduction by Annette Kolodny The Blithedale Romance is based in part on Hawthorne's own experiences at Brook Farm, an experimental socialist community. It is a superb depiction of a Utopian community that cannot survive the individual passions of its members. 039.028 6 E1.95 296pp January 1984 LOVE AND DEATH IN THE AMERICAN NOVEL Leslie Fiedler 'One of the great, essential books on the American imagination...an accepted major work' — New York Times 'Anyone concerned with the understanding of American literature and American morals will have to take it into account' — George Steiner 055.1123 E4.95 512pp April 1984 A MODERN INSTANCE William Dean Howells Introduction by Edwin H. Cady The publication in 1882 of A Modern Instance marked the author's transition to leading American novelist and champion of realism in American literature. With its roots in Howells's concern with the question of what makes an American, it introduced in American literature two innovative and powerful themes - divorce and the new journalism. 039.027 8 £3.95 496pp April 1984 A PHILIP ROTH READER Philip Roth Introduction by Martin Green Some of the best episodes from the novels and prose, including the newly revised version of The Breast, by 'one of America's most eagerly-read novelists, and one of the most excitingly unpredictable' — Sunday Times 00.55185 £4.95 512pp March 1984 WALDEN and CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Henry David Thoreau Introduction by Michael Meyer In Walden Thoreau creates a 'shining example' of Transcendental individualism. Civil Disobedience is less a call to political activism than a statement of Thoreau's insistence on living a life of principle. 039.044 8 £2.50 432pp January 1984 For further information please write to The Academic Marketing Department, Penguin Books Ltd., 536 King's Road, London SW10 0UH Jnl. of American Studies, 18,1 (i) terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580001820X Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:56, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580001820X https://www.cambridge.org/core The Divided Mind Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898-1917 PETER CONN Developing a series of vivid portraits of representative Americans from a broad range of fields, this lively interpretation of a fascinating period in American culture shows how central to the American consciousness was a sense of tension between tradition and innovation, order and liberation. £22.50 net Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture The Puritan conversion Narrative The Beginnings of American Expression PATRICIA CALDWELL An exploration of the testimonies of spiritual experience delivered by puritans in the michseventeenth century in order to qualify for membership of their local churches. Professor Caldwell shows that there were huge differences in the way ordinary people used religious language on opposite sides of the Atlantic and how those from New England represent 'the first faint murmurings of a truly American voice'. £17.50 net Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Poets Prose The Crisis in American Verse STEPHEN FREDMAN This pioneering study examines why so many modern American poets have resorted to writing in experimental prose, and in so doing it identifies a crisis in the forms of American verse. Demonstrating the divergence of the American from the French prose poem, Professor Fredman concludes that this form of writing holds the key to the future of American poetry. £17.50 net Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture The Cliffs of Solitude A Reading of Robinson Jeffers ROBERT ZALLER The most comprehensive reading of Jeffers1 work yet attempted, this study offers an overall interpretation of his intellectual and artistic development concentrating in particular on the characteristic tension and violence in his work £19.50 net Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (ii) terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580001820X Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:56, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580001820X https://www.cambridge.org/core The Rock Art of the North American Indians CAMPBELL GRANT The first highly illustrated general introduction to the rock art of the North American Indiana This art expresses accurately the harmonious relationship that existed between the Indians and nature, and reflects their awed sense of an all-pervading spirit world. The supporting text provides a detailed but concise analysis of the arts characteristic features in each major geographical area The Imprint of Man £ 1 2 - 9 5 n e t The Pursuit of Happiness Family and Values in Jefferson's Virginia JAN LEWIS An unusual and challenging study of the 'inner world1 of Virginia gentry during Thomas Jefferson's lifetime, which argues that, in the years following the Revolution, the gentry turned away from public life into the pnvacy of their families and homes A conclusion suggests the ways in which their story can be seen as the history of the American people in the first decades of the modern age. £20.00 net Eight Hours for What We Will Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 ROY ROSENZWEIG The first comprehensive case study of American working-class recreation, this book describes the profound changes that popular leisure underwent as the 'Rialto' gradually replaced the 'Rum Shop' as a centre of social life Professor Rosenzweig argues that this change had a considerable effect on what happened inside the factories, the union halls, and the voting booths of America's industrial communities. £25.00 net Making the Second Ghetto Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 ARNOLD HIRSCH This book analyses the expansion of Chicago's Black Belt after the Second World War. Even as the civil rights movement swept America, Chicago dealt with its rapidly growing black population not by abolishing the ghetto, but expanding and reinforcing it The result saw the emergence of a ghetto now distinguished by government support and sanctioa £20.00 net CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (iii) terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580001820X Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:56, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580001820X https://www.cambridge.org/core The Art of the City Views and Versions of New York Peter Conrad Peter Conrad's imaginative study of the magic and modernism of New York, from the early nineteenth century to the present day, as seen through the eyes of novelists, dramatists, poets, photographers, painters and other artists. Many striking photographs are included. 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Illustrated £16.50 Forthcoming April City People The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America Gunther Barth Gunther Barth explores the socializing/transforming influence of phenomena - apartment blocks, department stores, the metropolitan press, baseball parks, vaudeville, etc. - in big-city life. Illustrated Paperback £6.50 Galaxy Books Strategies of Containment John Lewis Gaddis The author applies the principles of strategy to his study of American diplomacy since World War II. Much of the book is concerned with the policy of containment developed in the 1940s by George Kennan, and its subsequent modifications. Paperback £8.95 Galaxy Books Galaxy Books are a paperback series produced by the New York branch of OUP. Many titles are therefore particularly concerned with American studies and culture. Most are available in the UK. Oxford University Press (iv) terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580001820X Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:56, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580001820X https://www.cambridge.org/core N O T E S F O R C O N T R I B U T O R S 1 A l l c o n t r i b u t i o n s a n d e d i t o r i a l c o r r e s p o n d e n c e s h o u l d b e s e n t t o : T h e E d i t o r , Journal of American Studies, S c h o o l o f E n g l i s h a n d A m e r i c a n S t u d i e s , U n i v e r s i t y o f E a s t A n g l i a , N o r w i c h N R 4 7 T J , E n g l a n d . 2 A r t i c l e s s h o u l d g e n e r a l l y c o n t a i n a b o u t 5,000 w o r d s . 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Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:56, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580001820X https://www.cambridge.org/core Volume 18 Number i April 1984 Journal of American Studies The Popular Concept of ' H o m e ' in Nineteenth-Century America M A X I N E V A N D E W E T E R I N G The Soldier at the Heart of the War: The Myth o f the Green Beret in the Popular Culture of the Vietnam Era A L A S D A I R S P A R K Film Noir: The Politics of the Maladjusted Text R I C H A R D M A L T B Y Out of the L i g h t : A n Analysis of Narrative in Out of the Past J O H N H A R V E Y The Comedian as the Letter ' N ' : Sight and Sound in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams T O N Y B A K E R Review Essay Segregation and the Southern Business Elite T O N Y B A D G E R Reviews © Cambridge University Press 1984 Cambridge University Press The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 i R P 32 East 57th Street, N e w Y o r k , N Y 10022 Printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002187580001820X Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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