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Other| December 01 2018 Brief Mention American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 882–890. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7208672 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Brief Mention. American Literature 1 December 2018; 90 (4): 882–890. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7208672 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literature Search Advanced Search The Book of Esther and the Typology of Female Transfiguration in American Literature. By Ariel Clark Silver. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2018. ix, 229 pp. Cloth, $95.00; e-book, $90.00.According to this study, nineteenth-century US authors explored the possibilities of women through the figure of Esther, who transforms from a Jewish girl into a Persian queen. Beginning with the transformative women in Margaret Fuller’s Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), Silver argues that Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Adams used biblical types to “conceive of a new redemption, salvation, and transfiguration that ultimately challenge the patriarchal structure on which typology fulfillment depends.” In particular, she traces this female redemption strand through Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne, Zenobia, and Miriam, and through Adams’s Esther Dudley.Herman Melville: Among the Magazines. By Graham Thompson. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2018. xiii, 249 pp. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $32.95.Scholars have often dislocated Melville from... Issue Section: Brief Mention You do not currently have access to this content.