Articles

Michelle Burnham

Merchants, Money, and the Economics of "Plain Style" in William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation
American Literature 72(4): 695-720 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-695 [PDF]  

Laura H. Korobkin

Murder by Madman: Criminal Responsibility, Law, and Judgment in Wieland
American Literature 72(4): 721-750 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-721 [PDF]  

Susan M. Ryan

Charity Begins at Home: Stowe's Antislavery Novels and the Forms of Benevolent Citizenship
American Literature 72(4): 751-782 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-751 [PDF]  

Frederick Wegener

"Rabid Imperialist": Edith Wharton and the Obligations of Empire in Modern American Fiction
American Literature 72(4): 783-812 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-783 [PDF]  

Sharon Stockton

Engineering Power: Hoover, Rand, Pound, and the Heroic Architect
American Literature 72(4): 813-841 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-813 [PDF]  

Joel Slotkin

Igorots and Indians: Racial Hierarchies and Conceptions of the Savage in Carlos Bulosan's Fiction of the Philippines
American Literature 72(4): 843-866 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-843 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Michael Moon

A History of the Book in America, Volume One: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World
Ed. Hugh Amory and David D. Hall. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2000. xxiv, 638 pp. $125.00.
American Literature 72(4): 867-868 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-867 [PDF]  

Bryce Traister

The Seduction Novel of the Early Nation: A Call for Socio-Political Reform
By Donna R. Bontatibus. East Lansing: Michigan State Univ. Press. 1999. 126 pp. Paper, $16.95.
American Literature 72(4): 868-869 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-868 [PDF]  

Ada Norris

Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses: The Political Economy of Literature in Antebellum America
By Terence Whalen. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. x, 328 pp. $55.00.
American Literature 72(4): 869-870 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-869 [PDF]  

Dana D. Nelson

Melville's Anatomies
By Samuel Otter. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 1999. xiii, 369 pp. Cloth, $48.00; paper, $22.50.
American Literature 72(4): 870-872 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-870 [PDF]  

Ned Landsman

Inventing the "Great Awakening"
By Frank Lambert. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. viii, 300 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 72(4): 872-873 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-872 [PDF]  

Catherine A. John

Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women's Fiction
By Venetría K. Patton. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2000. xviii, 194 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $16.95.
American Literature 72(4): 873-874 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-873 [PDF]  

Philip Gould

Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War
By Elizabeth Young. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 1999. xvi, 389 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $18.00.
American Literature 72(4): 874 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-874 [PDF]  

Wendy Graham

The Other Henry James
By John Carlos Rowe. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1998. xv, 238 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 72(4): 875-876 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-875 [PDF]  

Robert Thacker

Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism
By Joan Acocella. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2000. x, 127 pp. $20.00.
American Literature 72(4): 876-877 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-876 [PDF]  

Madelyn Detloff

Queer Poetics: Five Modernist Women Writers
By Mary E. Galvin. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 1999. xii, 143 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 72(4): 877-878 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-877 [PDF]  

Juliana Spahr

Making Love Modern: The Intimate Public Worlds of New York's Literary Women
By Nina Miller. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. ix, 292 pp. Paper, $19.95.
American Literature 72(4): 879 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-879 [PDF]  

James R. Giles

Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall
By Heather Hathaway. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 200 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 72(4): 880-881 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-880 [PDF]  

Helen Lojek

"A Clown in a Grave": Complexities and Tensions in the Works of Gregory Corso
By Michael Skau. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 1999. x, 233 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 72(4): 881-882 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-881 [PDF]  

Victor Strandberg

Poems of Pure Imagination: Robert Penn Warren and the Romantic Tradition
By Lesa Carnes Corrigan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 171 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 72(4): 882-883 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-882 [PDF]  

Anne Charles

Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian Resistance in Jane Rule's Fiction
By Marilyn R. Schuster. New York: New York Univ. Press. 1999. xv, 269 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $20.00.
American Literature 72(4): 883-884 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-883 [PDF]  

Jacqueline Vaught Brogan

Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman, and the Making of a Post-modern Aesthetic
By Thomas Travisano. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 1999. xvi, 325 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 72(4): 884-885 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-884 [PDF]  

John Whalen-Bridge

Mailer: A Biography; Norman Mailer: Works and Days
By Mary V. Dearborn. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1999. viii, 478 pp. $30.00.
By J. Michael Lennon and Donna Pedro Lennon. Shavertown, Penn.: Sligo Press. 2000. xvi, 280 pp. $100.00.
American Literature 72(4): 885-887 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-885 [PDF]  

Rebecca Wanzo

Quiet As It's Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison
By J. Brooks Bouson. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2000. x, 277 pp. $21.95.
American Literature 72(4): 887-888 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-887 [PDF]  

Lindon Barrett

Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form
By Asraf Rushdy. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. 232 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 72(4): 888-889 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-888 [PDF]  

Donna R. Gabaccia

Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers
By Mary Jo Bona. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 253 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 72(4): 889-890 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-889 [PDF]  

Dennis Berthold

Bachelors, Manhood, and the Novel, 1850-1925
By Katherine V. Snyder. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 1999. x, 285 pp. $59.95.
American Literature 72(4): 891-892 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-891 [PDF]  

Margaret D. Bauer

The Narrative Forms of Southern Community
By Scott Romine. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 226 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 72(4): 892-893 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-892 [PDF]  

Kenneth W. Warren

Scenes of Instruction: A Memoir
By Michael Awkward. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 208 pp. $25.00.
American Literature 72(4): 893-894 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-893 [PDF]  

Mark A. Reid

Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video
Ed. Phyllis R. Klotman and Janet K. Cutler. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. 2000. xxxiii, 483 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 72(4): 894-895 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-894 [PDF]  

Allan Langdale

Hitchcock's America
Ed. Jonathan Freedman and Richard Millington. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. viii, 192 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 72(4): 895-896 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-895 [PDF]  

Herman Gray

Real Love: In Pursuit of Cultural Justice
By Andrew Ross. New York: New York Univ. Press. 1998. ix, 243 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $18.00.
American Literature 72(4): 896-897 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-896 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 72(4): 899-907 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-4-899 [PDF]  

To see an article, click its [Full Text] or [PDF] link. To review many abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want, and click the 'Get All Checked Abstract(s)' button. To see one abstract at a time, click its [Abstract] link.