From Spring 1981 Explore This Issue on The Story of Story Magazine: A Memoir by Martha Foley & Jay Neugeboren By Lael Wertenbaker From the Spring 1981 Issue ← An “Eye” for an “I”: American Romantic Painting of the Nineteenth Century (on “A Man of Genius”: The Art of Washington Allston, 1779-1843 by William H. Gerdts, Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.; & American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1850-1875; Paintings, Drawings, Photo Graphs by John Wilmerding) → on Shadow Over the Promised Land: Slavery, Race and Violence in Melville’s America by Carolyn Karcher