Articles

Bryce Traister

Libertinism and Authorship in America's Early Republic
American Literature 72(1): 1-30 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-1 [PDF]  

Richard V. McLamore

The Dutchman in the Attic: Claiming an Inheritance in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
American Literature 72(1): 31-58 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-31 [PDF]  

Matthew Gartner

Becoming Longfellow: Work, Manhood, and Poetry
American Literature 72(1): 59-86 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-59 [PDF]  

Barbara Foley

From Wall Street to Astor Place: Historicizing Melville's "Bartleby"
American Literature 72(1): 87-116 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-87 [PDF]  

Henry B. Wonham

"I Want a Real Coon": Mark Twain and Late-Nineteenth-Century Ethnic Caricature
American Literature 72(1): 117-152 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-117 [PDF]  

Joseph Karaganis

Naturalism's Nation: Toward An American Tragedy
American Literature 72(1): 153-180 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-153 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Paul Gutjahr

Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century New England Writing
By Jim Egan. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. x, 182 pp. $37.50.
American Literature 72(1): 181-182 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-181 [PDF]  

Ralph Bauer

Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771-1876
By Eric Wertheimer. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 243 pp. $59.95.
American Literature 72(1): 182-183 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-182 [PDF]  

Farah Jasmine Griffin

Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing
By Katherine Clay Bassard. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. 183 pp. $42.50.
American Literature 72(1): 183-185 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-183 [PDF]  

Ormond Seavey

The Transformation of Authorship in America
By Grantland S. Rice. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 1997. xi, 230 pp. Cloth, $42.00; paper, $16.95.
American Literature 72(1): 185-186 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-185 [PDF]  

Jennifer Kennedy

Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson: Joseph Denny and "The Port Folio," 1801-1812
By William C. Dowling. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press. 1999. xv, 127 pp. $24.95.
American Literature 72(1): 186-187 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-186 [PDF]  

Suzanne H. Juhasz

Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries: Women's Verse in America, 1820-1885
By Elizabeth A. Petrino. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. 1998. xi, 240 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 72(1): 187-188 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-187 [PDF]  

Jennifer Hildebrand

Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture
By William J. Mahar. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 1999. xix, 444 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 72(1): 188-189 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-188 [PDF]  

Eva Cherniavsky

Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America
By Nancy Isenberg. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 1998. xviii, 319 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $16.95.
American Literature 72(1): 189-190 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-189 [PDF]  

Sharon P. Holland

Nat Turner before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection
By Mary Kemp Davis. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 1999. xiv, 298 pp. $30.00.
American Literature 72(1): 191-192 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-191 [PDF]  

Matthew Conner

A Voice of Thunder: A Black Soldier's Civil War
By George E. Stephens. Ed. Donald Yacovone. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 1998. xxi, 350 pp. Cloth, $26.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 72(1): 192-193 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-192 [PDF]  

Christopher Beach

The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman: The Journalism, Volume I: 1834-1846
Ed. Herbert Bergman, Douglas Noverr, and Edward Recchia. New York: Peter Lang. 1998. lxx, 590 pp. $44.95.
American Literature 72(1): 193-194 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-193 [PDF]  

Vivian R. Pollak

A Whitman Chronology; Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song
By Joann P. Krieg. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 1998. xxii, 207 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $14.95.
Ed. Jim Perlman, Ed Folsom, and Dan Campion. 2d Rev. Ed. Duluth, Minn.: Holy Cow! Press. 1998. xix, 531 pp. Paper, $20.00.
American Literature 72(1): 194-196 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-194 [PDF]  

Robert Regan

Proper Mark Twain
By Leland Krauth. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 1999. xvi, 296 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 72(1): 196-197 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-196 [PDF]  

Maureen Honey

Edith Wharton's Travel Writing: The Making of a Connoisseur
By Sarah Bird Wright. New York: St. Martin's. 1997. xii, 194 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 72(1): 197-198 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-197 [PDF]  

Eric Schocket

Jack London: A Study of the Short Fiction
By Jeanne Campbell Reesman. New York: Twayne. 1999. xx, 276 pp. $29.00.
American Literature 72(1): 199 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-199 [PDF]  

Vincent Fitzpatrick

Reading the Symptom: Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and the Dynamics of Capitalism
By Mohamed Zayani. New York: Peter Lang. 1999. xii, 184 pp. $45.95.
American Literature 72(1): 200 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-200 [PDF]  

Patricia Larson Kalayjian

Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America
By Nan Goodman. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. 1998. xi, 198 pp. $39.50.
American Literature 72(1): 200-201 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-200-a [PDF]  

Donald B. Gibson

"Winds Can Wake Up the Dead": An Eric Walrond Reader
Ed. Louis J. Parascandola. Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State Univ. Press. 1998. 350 pp. Paper, $24.95.
American Literature 72(1): 202 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-202 [PDF]  

Joyce Pettis

Women of the Harlem Renaissance
By Cheryl A. Wall. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. 1995. xx, 246 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $14.95.
American Literature 72(1): 203-204 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-203 [PDF]  

Joseph Urgo

Reading Faulkner's Best Short Stories; Percyscapes: The Fugue State in Twentieth-Century Southern Fiction
By Hans H. Skei. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press. 1999. xi, 263 pp. $39.95.
By Robert W. Rudnicki. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 1999. xx, 167 pp. $30.00.
American Literature 72(1): 204-206 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-204 [PDF]  

Barbara Will

Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright: The Poetics and Politics of Modernism
By M. Lynn Weiss. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 1998. xiii, 150 pp. $37.00.
American Literature 72(1): 206-207 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-206 [PDF]  

Michael J. Hoffman

Money and Modernity: Pound, Williams, and the Spirit of Jefferson
By Alec Marsh. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 1998. xvi, 290 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 72(1): 207-208 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-207 [PDF]  

Linda Hamalian

The Suburb of Dissent: Cultural Politics in the United States and Canada during the 1930s
By Caren Irr. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1998. ix, 293 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 72(1): 208-209 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-208 [PDF]  

Timothy P. Caron

Writing against God: Language as Message in the Literature of Flannery O'Connor
By Joanne Halleran McMullen. Macon, Ga.: Mercer Univ. Press. 1998. 152 pp. Paper, $16.00.
American Literature 72(1): 209-210 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-209 [PDF]  

André Kaenel

The Good War's Greatest Hits: World War II and American Remembering
By Philip D. Beidler. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 1998. x, 220 pages. $29.95.
American Literature 72(1): 210-211 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-210 [PDF]  

D. Quentin Miller

Understanding Jane Smiley
By Neil Nakadate. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press. 1999. xi, 281 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 72(1): 211-212 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-211 [PDF]  

Daryl Cumber Dance

Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative
By Belinda Edmondson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1999. x, 229 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 72(1): 213-214 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-213 [PDF]  

Mark Chiang

Narrating Nationalisms: Ideology and Form in Asian American Literature
By Jinqi Ling. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1998. ix, 212 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 72(1): 214-215 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-214 [PDF]  

Frederick Luis Aldama

Momaday, Vizenor, Armstrong: Conversations on American Indian Writing; Native North America: Critical and Cultural Perspectives
Ed. Hartwig Isernhagen. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 1999. ix, 183 pp. $34.95.
Ed. Renée Hulan. Toronto: ECW Press. 274 pp. Paper, $21.95.
American Literature 72(1): 215-217 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-215 [PDF]  

Theodore L. Steinberg

Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990
By Susanne Klingenstein. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press. 1998. xxxiv, 492 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 72(1): 217-218 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-217 [PDF]  

Timothy Powell

Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of American Literature
By Werner Sollors. 1998. x, 409 pp. $65.00.
American Literature 72(1): 218-219 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-218 [PDF]  

Timothy Sweet

Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and the Environment
Ed. Michael P. Branch, Rochelle Johnson, Daniel Patterson, and Scott Slovic. Moscow: Univ. of Idaho Press. 1998. xviii, 266 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $29.95.
American Literature 72(1): 219-220 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-219 [PDF]  

Eric Cheyfitz

National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men
By Dana D. Nelson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1998. xiv, 344 pp. $49.95.
American Literature 72(1): 221-222 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-221 [PDF]  

Sharon O'Brien

Writing Women's Communities: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Multi-Genre Anthologies
Cynthia G. Franklin. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 1997. xi, 268 pp. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 72(1): 222-223 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-222 [PDF]  

John W. Roberts

Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture
By Lori Landay. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 1998. xi, 258 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 72(1): 223-224 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-223 [PDF]  

Jill Matus

Matters of Fact: Reading Nonfiction over the Edge
By Daniel W. Lehman. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 1997. x, 224 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 72(1): 224-225 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-224 [PDF]  

Rebecca Bushnell

Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century
Annette Kolodny. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1998. xi, 298 pp. $24.95.
American Literature 72(1): 225-226 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-225 [PDF]  

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American Literature 72(1): 227-240 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-227 [PDF]  

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American Literature 72(1): 241-242 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-1-241 [PDF]  

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