PREFACE........................................................... 5 AMERICAN LITERATURE AND FILM Mark David Hall Emma Willard on the Political Position of Women.................. 11 Gillian A. M. Mitchell "A Path to Life" or "A Way of Life": The Contrasting Approaches of Emerson and Thoreau to the Natural World...................... 27 János Kenyeres An Investigation into T. S. Eliot's "Impossibly Fertile Paternity": Northrop Frye........................................ 35 Ruthann Knechel Johansen Seeing Through the Landscape: Flannery O'Connor's Narrative Strategies......................... 47 Roland Végsö Flannery O'Connor and the Politics of Realism: Reading the "The Artificial Nigger".............................. 59 Donald E. Morse Sylvia Plath and the Trope of Vulnerability...................... 77 Péter Csató Tangled Hierarchies: Postmodernist Fiction vs. Deconstruction?... 91 Mark Pettus Terminal Simulation: "Revolution" in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club.................... 111 Fred Erisman Clint Eastwood's Western Films and the Evolving Mythic Hero..... 129 GOTHIC FICTION Noel Elizabeth Currie From Walpole to the New World: Legitimation and the Gothic in Richardson's Wacousta............ 145 Bridget M. Marshall The Face of Evil: Phrenology, Physiognomy, and the Gothic Villain................. 161 Debbie Joyce Chung "Such blood, such power": The Lot Complex in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire....... 173 Edina Szalay Gothic Fantasy and Female Bildung in Four North-American Women Novels............................. 183 IMMIGRANTS Enikö Bollobás Whether in Pennsylvania or Transylvania, "We Have Been United Concerning the Separation": On the Common Roots and Different Fates of Amish and Habán Anabaptism............................. 197 Tibor Frank "For the Information of the President": The US Government Surveillance of Austro-Hungarian Emigration (1891-1907)......... 213 N. F. Dreisziger Rose-gardens on Ice-floes: A Century of the Hungarian Diaspora in Canada................... 239 Dorottya Sziszkoszné Halász The United States and the Joel Brand Mission: Help or Hindrance?.............................................. 259 ANNA B. KATONA: A BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE.............................. 268 Review Essay Szönyi, György Endre. Exaltatio és hatalom. Keresztény mágia és okkult szimbolizmus egy keresztény mágus müveiben (Exaltatio and Power: Christian Magic and Occult Symbolism in the Work of an English Magus) by András Kiséry................................................ 271 BOOK REVIEWS Vadon, Lehel. Az amerikai irodalom és irodalomtudomány bibliográfiája a magyar idoszaki kiadványokban 1990-ig by Zoltán Abádi-Nagy............................................ 281 Fuller, David, and Patricia Waugh, eds. The Arts and Sciences of Criticism by Zoltán Abádi-Nagy...................... 283 Walker, Nancy. What's So Funny? Humor in American Culture by Donald E. Morse.............................................. 288 Corber, Robert J. Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity by Krisztina Dankó..... 291 Reynolds, Guy. Twentieth Century American Women's Fiction: A Critical Introduction by Zoltán Abádi-Nagy.................... 297 Muller, Gilbert H. New Strangers in Paradise: The Immigrant Experience and Contemporary American Fiction by Zoltán Abádi-Nagy............................................ 301 Obenzinger, Hilton. American Palestine: Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania by Gabriella Vöo........................ 305 Grabher, Gudrun, Roland Hagenbluchle, and Cristanne Miller, eds. The Emily Dickinson Handbook by Edina Szalay............... 308 Huber, Werner, and Martin Middeke, eds. Anthropological Perspectives. Contemporary Drama in English by Mária Kurdi...... 309 Gilderhus, Mark T. The Second Century: U.S.-Latin American Relations Since 1889 by Tibor Glant............................. 313 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS........................................... 319
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