| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.1

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Book Review

Genteel Rhetoric: Writing High Culture in Nineteenth-Century Boston. By Dorothy C. Broaddus. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. xvi, 136 pp. $24.95, isbn 1-57003-244-0.)

Hungry Heart: The Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe. By Gary Williams. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. xiv, 273 pp. $34.95, isbn 1-55849-157-0.)

Nearly a century has passed since George Santayana's indictment of the "genteel tradition," yet scholars continue to search for redeeming features of the New England literary tradition. The works under review approach the subject from widely contrasting perspectives with varying success. . . .

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