In Print

Michael Aceto's "The Linguistic Matrix of Panama with Special Focus on Anglophone Creoles" appeared in The English Creole of Panama published by Quaderni del Centro Interdipartimentale di Studi sull'America Indigena/CISAI dell'Università di Sienna, October, 2001. "The nature of the research has to do with describing the linguistic features associated with Panamanian Creole English as well as the general multilingualism found in Panama."

"Sentimental Feminism," a review by Peter Makuck of Tracy Chevalier's novel Falling Angels (Dutton/Plume, 2001), appeared in the Sunday Raleigh News and Observer, November 18. Makuck writes, "Falling Angels deploys a modernist technique, the interior monologue, of which there are 94 divided among 12 characters. The length of each varies from seven pages to a paragraph to one sentence. Kitty's daughter Maude has the most, 16, an appropriate number because this is a coming of age story in which she ripens into awareness during the process of her mother's fatal liberation. Though inviting unfortunate comparison with greats like Faulkner and Woolf, Chevalier's choice of interior monologue is a wise one, for in addition to advancing the story, it reveals the inner life of characters and allows them to comment on the action and each other. The modernist technique provides for candor, a way around Victorian reserve, but it does not, alas, rescue the novel from sentimentality."

Ellen Arnold's "Masks Over the Face of God: Remapping Epistemologies in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms " appeared in Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres  (15) 2001, a special issue devoted to "Native American Literature: Boundaries and Sovereignties."  The essay explores the ways that Hogan's 1995 novel (loosely based on Native resistance to the James Bay hydroelectric project of the 1970s) works to heal a divided world by mediating (rather than opposing) indigenous systems of embodied knowledge and scientific systems of analysis.

Margaret Bauer's "No Mere Endurance Here: the Prevailing Woman's Voice in Lee Smith's Oral History," a chapter from a work-in-progress, was published in Pembroke Magazine v.33.

Rick Taylor's review of Paul Slack's From Reformation To Improvement: Public Welfare In Early Modern England (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1999) appeared in the Spring/Summer 2001 issue of Seventeenth-Century News.  Taylor recounts how Slack traces the development of the idea of civic improvement as it made itself manifest in various public works projects and as it contributed to a sense of national identity and collective responsibility. "The book is a careful and wide-ranging study of social paternalism as it contributed to the conception of a 'common weal.'"

Taylor also reviewed Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture In Europe, 1650-1850 edited by Maxine Berg and Helen Clifford (Manchester: Manchester UP, 1999), also in the Spring/Summer issue of Seventeenth-Century News. Taylor observes, "this is a wonderful study of material culture and the ever-increasing amount of 'stuff,' imported and domestically manufactured objects, that contributed to and complicated daily life in Europe." Taylor also contributed a critical essay to Encyclopedia of Life Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001) on "Horace Walpole, John Wesley, and Restoration and 18th-Century Diaries and Letters." He notes, "this [encyclopedia] attempts to broaden our understanding of biography and autobiography and to bring together critical appraisals of the many genres of and approaches to life writing. My own contribution includes a discussion of famous eighteenth-century diaries and letters as biographical documents, as well as an analysis of the biographical function of diaries and letters in the careers of Walpole and Wesley."