Todd Vogel

The Black Press: New Literary and Historical Essays Todd Vogel

Marc Notes: Bibl. ref. & index; Addresses the production, distribution, regulation & reception of black journalism, illustrating a more textured public discourse, one that exchanges ideas not just within the black community, but the nation at large; Cloth @ $59.95. Review Citations:

Library Journal 11/01/2001 pg. 114 (EAN 9780813530055, Paperback)

Booklist 12/15/2001 pg. 712 (EAN 9780813530055, Paperback)

Choice 05/01/2002 pg. 1578 (EAN 9780813530055, Paperback)

Multicultural Review 09/01/2002 pg. 97 (EAN 9780813530055, Paperback)

Black Issues Book Review 07/01/2005 pg. 49 (EAN 9780813530055, Paperback)

Library Journal 11/01/2001 pg. 114 (EAN 9780813530048, Hardcover)

Booklist 12/15/2001 pg. 712 (EAN 9780813530048, Hardcover)

Choice 05/01/2002 pg. 1578 (EAN 9780813530048, Hardcover)

Multicultural Review 09/01/2002 pg. 97 (EAN 9780813530048, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Vogel, Todd Vogel is the director of American Studies and a visiting assistant professor of English and American Studies at Trinity College, Connecticut. Contributor Bio:  Marcus, Jane VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. An admired literary critic, she authored many essays, letters, journals, and short stories in addition to her groundbreaking novels. Contributor Bio:  Levine, Robert S Robert S. Levine (Ph. D. Stanford) is Distinguished University Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville; Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity; and Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism. He has edited a number of books, including The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville; Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader; Hemispheric American Studies; and a Norton Critical Edition of Hawthorne s The House of the Seven Gables. Contributor Bio:  Everett, Anna Anna Everett is Professor of Film Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Contributor Bio:  Fishkin, Shelley Fisher Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872--1906) overcame racism and poverty to become one of the best-known authors in America, and the first African American to earn a living from his poetry, fiction, drama, journalism, and lectures. This original collection includes the short novel The Sport of the Gods, Dunbar's essential essays and short stories, and his finest poems, such as "Sympathy," all which explore crucial social, political, and humanistic issues at the dawn of the twentieth century. Shelley Fisher Fishkin is a professor of English and the director of American studies at Stanford University. An award-winning author, she is past president of the American Studies Association. David Bradley is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon, and the author of South Street and The Chaneysville Incident, for which he received the 1982 PEN/ Faulkner Award. Contributor Bio:  Streitmatter, Roger Rodger Streitmatter is professor of journalism at American University, where he has taught for more than twenty years. He is the author of "Mightier Than the Sword: How the News Media Have Shaped American History" and "Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America." He lives in Washington, D. C. Contributor Bio:  Wagner, Wendy Wendy Wagner is the Joe A. Worsham Centennial Professor at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, Texas. She received a master's degree in environmental studies from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, a law degree from Yale Law School, and clerked for the Honorable Judge Albert Engel, Chief Judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. Before entering academia, Wagner served as an honors attorney with the Environmental Enforcement section of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U. S. Department of Justice in Washington D. C. and as the Pollution Control Coordinator in the Office of General Counsel, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Wagner teaches courses in torts, environmental law, and regulation. Her research focuses on the law-science interface in environmental law and her articles have appeared in numerous journals including the Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Illinois, Texas, Wisconsin, and Yale Law Reviews. She is a member scholar of the Center for Progressive Regulation and chair of its Science Issue Group. Contributor Bio:  Thurston, Michael Michael Thurston is assistant professor of English at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Contributor Bio:  Fanuzzi, Robert Robert Fanuzzi is an associate professor of English at St. John's University, New York. Contributor Bio:  Stange, Maren Maren Stange is assistant professor of American Studies and coordinator of the program in communication studies at Clark University. She is the author of "Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary Photography in America, 1890-1950."Contributor Bio:  Hall, James James Hall is an art critic and historian whose previous books include The World as Sculpture: The Changing Status of Sculpture from the Renaissance to the Present Day; Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body; Coffee with Michelangelo; and The Sinister Side: How Left-Right Symbolism Shaped Western Art. Contributor Bio:  Peterson, Carla L A professor of English at the University of Maryland.