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the new england qvarterly
A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters
December 2011Editorial Linda Smith Rhoads 3
American Scholars: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph Smith, John Brown, and the Springs of Intellectual Schism Evan Carton 5
The Liberty Women of Boston: Evangelicalism and Antislavery Politics Julie Roy Jeffrey 38
The Revolutionary Worlds of Lexington and Concord Compared Mary Babson Fuhrer 78
Memoranda and Documents
Two Doctuments Detailing the Oneida Community’s Practice of Complex Marriage Edited by William T. La Moy 119
“Times Change”: Frank J. Webb Addresses Robert Morris on the Promise of Reconstruction Edited by Amber D. Moulton 137
Longellow’s Serenity and Poe’s Prediction: An Antebellum Turning Point Paul Lewis 144
In Memoriam
Oscar Handlin, 1915–2011 William M. Fowler Jr. and Linda Smith Rhoads 159
Essay Review
Portrait of the Artist as an American? Diana Korzenik 161
Book Reviews
Building Their Own Waldos: Emerson’s First Biographers and the Politics of Life-Writing in the Gilded Age, by Robert D. Habich David M. Robinson 168
Shakers, Mormons, and Religious Worlds: Conflicting Visions, Contested Boundaries, by Stephen C. Taysom Ethan Hawkley 171
The Man with the Branded Hand: The Life of Jonathan Walker, Abolitionist, by Alvin F. Oickle Fergus M. Bordewich 174
The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, by Justine S. Murison Maura D’Amore 176
Lucretia Mott’s Heresy: Abolition and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America, by Carol Faulkner Sylvia D. Hoffert 178
Making Slavery History: Abolitionism and the Politics of Memory in Massachusetts, by Margot Minardi Hilary Moss 181
New Essays on Phillis Wheatley, edited by John C. Shields and Eric Lamore Rosemary Guruswamy 183
Race and Redemption in Puritan New England, by Richard A. Bailey Francis J. Bremer 186
Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise, by Robert Martello James McWilliams 189
The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture, by Joshua Kendall John Considine 191
Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature, by Carol J. Singley Mark C. Jerng 194
Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927, by Nina Baym Carrie Tirado Bramen 196