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Table of Contents

Editor’s Note

R. J. Golsan
p. 1
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Empire’s Past . . . Empire’s Future

Charles S. Maier
pp. 2-19
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What is an Empire?: Rome and the Greeks after 188 B.C.

Arthur Eckstein
pp. 20-37
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from Between Terror and Tourism: An Overland Trip Across North Africa

Michael Mewshaw
pp. 38-39
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Whither the “Good Europeans”?: Nietzsche’s New World Order

Daniel Conway
pp. 40-60
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“[R]eaders who are sick at heart”: Melville’s Typee and the Expansion Controversy

Nicholas Lawrence
pp. 61-71
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“Striking the Fire Out of the Rock”: Gnostic Theology in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian

Petra Mundik
pp. 72-97
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Transcending the Holocaust: Nelly Sachs’s Eli and the Stage Version of The Diary of Anne Frank

Gene A. Plunka
pp. 98-118
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Faulkner’s First War: Conflict, Mimesis, and the Resonance of Defeat

David McKay Powell
pp. 119-130
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The One-Eyed Preacher, His Crooked Daughter, and Villagers Waving Their Stumps: Barbara Kingsolver’s Use of Disability in The Poisonwood Bible

Jeanna Fuston White
pp. 131-144
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Defying the Odds: Class and the Pursuit of Higher Literacy (review)

Julie Sorge Way
pp. 145-147
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Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor (review)

Scott Daniel
pp. 147-149
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Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (review)

J. Lawrence Mitchell
pp. 149-152
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Notes on Contributors

pp. 153-154
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Books Received

p. 155
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