Contents
Issue 35.1 (Winter 2008)
General Issue
Abstracts ........................................................................................iv-vii
Essays
Jean-François Leroux .........................................................................1
Exhausting Ennui: Bellow, Dostoevsky, and the Literature of Boredom
Lawrence Howe..................................................................................16
Through the Looking Glass: Reflexivity, Reciprocality, and
Defenestration in Hitchcock’s Rear Window
Defenestration in Hitchcock’s Rear Window
Paul H. Wild........................................................................................38
William S. Burroughs and the Maya Gods of Death:
The Uses of Archaeology
William S. Burroughs and the Maya Gods of Death:
The Uses of Archaeology
John Haydock .....................................................................................58
Melville and Balzac: The Man in Cream-Colors
Cathryn Halverson ................................................................................................................................82
John Steinbeck’s Sweetheart: The Cosmic American Bus
Karen J. Jacobsen ..............................................................................................................................100
Economic Hauntings: Wealth and Class in Edith Wharton’s Ghost Stories
Michael Lackey ..................................................................................................................................128
A. S. Byatt’s "Morpho Eugenia": Prolegomena to Any Future Theory
John Rodden ......................................................................................................................................148
How Do Stories Convince Us? Notes Towards a Rhetoric of Narrative
Review Essays
Anthony DiMatteo ...............................................................................................................................175
The Trauma of Empire in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture
[Reviews of Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton, by Thomas Anderson; Performances of Mourning in Shakespearean Theater and Early Modern Culture, by Tobias Döring; Empires of the Atlantic Worlds: Britain and Spain in America, by J. H. Elliott; The Law in Shakespeare, ed. Constance Jordan and Karen Cunningham; The Subject of Elizabeth: Authority, Gender, and Representation, by Louis Montrose; Censorship and Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England, by Debora Shuger.]
Graham MacPhee ...............................................................................................................................198
Recalling Empire:Anglo-American Conceptions of Imperialismand the Decline of the Nation-State
[Reviews of Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World, by Bernard Porter; Fugitive Empire: Locating Early American Imperialism, by Andy Doolan; Empire, The National, and the Postcolonial 1890-1920: Resistance in Interaction, by Elleke Boehmer; Enlightenment Against Empire, by Muthu Sankar.]
Appendix
Books Received ..................................................................................................................................209
Referees 2005 - 2007 ...........................................................................................................................213
