Articles

Michael Hames-García

Dr. Gonzo's Carnival: The Testimonial Satires of Oscar Zeta Acosta
American Literature 72(3): 463-494 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-463 [PDF]  

Maurice S. Lee

Melville's Subversive Political Philosophy: "Benito Cereno" and the Fate of Speech
American Literature 72(3): 495-520 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-495 [PDF]  

Rob Wilson

Exporting Christian Transcendentalism, Importing Hawaiian Sugar: The Trans-Americanization of Hawai`i
American Literature 72(3): 521-552 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-521 [PDF]  

Jennifer T. Kennedy

Parricide of Memory: Thomas Jefferson's Memoir and the French Revolution
American Literature 72(3): 553-574 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-553 [PDF]  

Peter Stoneley

"I—Pay—in Satin Cash—": Commerce, Gender, and Display in Emily Dickinson's Poetry
American Literature 72(3): 575-594 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-575 [PDF]  

Bill Christophersen

Agnostic Tensions in Hawthorne's Short Stories
American Literature 72(3): 595-624 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-595 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Jerome D. DeNuccio

Institutional Individualism: Conversion, Exile, and Nostalgia in Puritan New England
By Michael W. Kaufmann. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press; Han-over, N.H.: University Press of New England. 1998. ix, 155 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $16.95.
American Literature 72(3): 625-626 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-625 [PDF]  

Michael P. Branch

The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James
By Christoph Irmscher. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 1999. xvii, 354 pp. $42.00.
American Literature 72(3): 626-627 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-626 [PDF]  

Mary Warner

An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880
By Paul C. Gutjahr. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 1999. xv, 256 pp. $39.50.
American Literature 72(3): 627-628 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-627 [PDF]  

Nancy Bentley

The Complicity of Imagination: The American Renaissance, Contests of Authority, and Seventeenth-Century Culture
By Robin Grey. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 1997. viii, 294 pp. $54.95.
American Literature 72(3): 628-629 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-628 [PDF]  

John Michael

Emerson and the Climates of History
By Eduardo Cadava. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 1997. ix, 256 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 72(3): 630-631 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-630 [PDF]  

Robert DeMott

Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden
By Richard Francis. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 1997. xiii, 256 pp. $32.50.
American Literature 72(3): 631-632 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-631 [PDF]  

Vivian R. Pollak

The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition
Ed. R. W. Franklin. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press. 1999. 692 pp. Cloth, $29.95.
American Literature 72(3): 632-633 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-632 [PDF]  

Cynthia Davis

Woeful Afflictions: Disability and Sentimentality in Victorian America
By Mary Klages. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 1999. 250 pp. $36.50.
American Literature 72(3): 634-635 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-634 [PDF]  

Nancy Glazener

Utopia and Cosmopolis: Globalization in the Era of American Literary Realism
By Thomas Peyser. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1998. xi, 195 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 72(3): 635-636 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-635 [PDF]  

Carol F. Kessler

Well-Tempered Women: Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric
By Carol Mattingly. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 1998. xv, 213 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 72(3): 636-637 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-636 [PDF]  

Terence Martin

Citizens of Somewhere Else: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James
By Dan McCall. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 1999. x, 200 pp. $25.00.
American Literature 72(3): 637-638 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-637 [PDF]  

George Monteiro

Henry James's Legacy: The Afterlife of His Figure and Fiction
By Adeline R. Tintner. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 1998. xxxii, 468 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 72(3): 638-639 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-638 [PDF]  

Nina Baym

Henry James's Thwarted Love
By Wendy Graham. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 289 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 72(3): 639-640 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-639 [PDF]  

Jason G. Horn

Robert Frost and Feminine Literary Tradition
By Karen L. Kilcup. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. ix, 322 pp. $44.50.
American Literature 72(3): 640-642 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-640 [PDF]  

Lisa M. Steinman

Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production
By Douglas Mao. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 1998. xii, 308 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 72(3): 642-643 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-642 [PDF]  

Tom Strychacz

American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s
By Jonathan Veitch. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 1997. xx, 182 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 72(3): 643-644 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-643 [PDF]  

Alan Wald

New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism between the Wars
By William J. Maxwell. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 254 pp. $49.50.
American Literature 72(3): 644-645 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-644 [PDF]  

Caren Irr

The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946
By James Edward Smethurst. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 288 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 72(3): 645-646 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-645 [PDF]  

Catherine Cucinella

Women Poets of the Americas: Toward a Pan-American Gathering
Ed. Jacqueline Vaught Brogan and Cordelia Chávez Candelaria. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame Press. 1999. xvii, 287 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $27.00.
American Literature 72(3): 647-648 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-647 [PDF]  

Paul Gutjahr

Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture
Ed. Mary Chapman and Glenn Hendler. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 1999. ix, 288 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 72(3): 648-649 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-648 [PDF]  

Sharon Willis

Taking It like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture
By David Savran. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 1998. 382 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 72(3): 649-650 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-649 [PDF]  

Elizabeth A. Marchant

Proceed with Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas
By Doris Sommer. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 1999. xv, 365 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 72(3): 650-651 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-650 [PDF]  

P. Ryan Schneider

From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest
By Anita Haya Patterson. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1997. 257 pp. $49.95.
American Literature 72(3): 652-653 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-652 [PDF]  

Vincent J. Bertolini

Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
By Richard Rorty. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 1998. 159 pp. Cloth, $19.50; paper, $12.95.
American Literature 72(3): 653-654 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-653 [PDF]  

Lesliee Antonette

The Primate's Dream: Literature, Race, and Ethnicity in America
By James W. Tuttleton. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee. 1999. xxix, 343 pp. $27.50.
American Literature 72(3): 654-655 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-654 [PDF]  

Sarah Way Sherman

Crossing Borders through Folklore: African American Women's Fiction and Art
By Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 1999. xii, 146 pp. $27.50.
American Literature 72(3): 655-656 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-655 [PDF]  

Karen Shimakawa

Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures
By Sheng-mei Ma. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 1998. ix, 188 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 72(3): 657-658 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-657 [PDF]  

Josephine Lee

Imagining the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent
By David Leiwei Li. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 1998. xii, 261 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 72(3): 658-659 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-658 [PDF]  

Jamie Harker

Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body
By Traise Yamamoto. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 1999. xiii, 304 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 72(3): 659-660 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-659 [PDF]  

David Cowart

History Made, History Imagined: Contemporary Literature, Poiesis, and the Past
By David W. Price. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 1999. x, 338 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $23.95.
American Literature 72(3): 660-661 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-660 [PDF]  

Marilyn Maness Mehaffy

Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture
By Linda S. Kauffman. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 1998. xii, 328 pp. Cloth, $48.00; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 72(3): 662-663 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-662 [PDF]  

Timothy Gray

My Way, Speeches and Poems
By Charles Bernstein. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 1999. xii, 321 pp. Cloth, $44.00; paper, $18.00.
American Literature 72(3): 663-664 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-663 [PDF]  

Nathaniel Lewis

Dramas of Solitude: Narratives of Retreat in American Nature Writing
By Randall Roorda. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 1998. xix, 283 pp. Cloth, $65.50; paper, $21.95.
American Literature 72(3): 664-665 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-664 [PDF]  

H. Bruce Franklin

Doing Time: Twenty-Five Years of Prison Writing
Ed. Bell Gale Chevigny. New York: Arcade Publishing. 1999. xxxii, 349 pp. $27.95.
American Literature 72(3): 665-666 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-665 [PDF]  

Amitava Kumar

Light Writing and Life Writing: Photography in Autobiography
By Timothy Dow Adams. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2000. xxiv, 298 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $22.50.
American Literature 72(3): 666-667 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-666 [PDF]  

Ronald R. Butters

Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English
3d ed. By James Milroy and Leslie Milroy. New York: Routledge. 1998. xi, 173 pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $23.99.
American Literature 72(3): 668-669 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-668 [PDF]  

Heather J. Hicks

Postmodern Cartographies: The Geographical Imagination in Contemporary American Culture
By Brian Jarvis. New York: St. Martin's. 1998. 208 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 72(3): 669-670 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-669 [PDF]  

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American Literature 72(3): 671-690 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-671 [PDF]  

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American Literature 72(3): 691-693 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-3-691 [PDF]  

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