Articles

Michael Warner, Natasha Hurley, Luis Iglesias, Sonia Di Loreto, Jeffrey Scraba, and Sandra Young

A Soliloquy "Lately Spoken at the African Theatre": Race and the Public Sphere in New York City, 1821
American Literature 73(1): 1-46 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-1 [PDF]  

Jenine Abboushi Dallal

American Imperialism UnManifest: Emerson's "Inquest" and Cultural Regeneration
American Literature 73(1): 47-83 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-47 [PDF]  

Peter Coviello

Intimate Nationality: Anonymity and Attachment in Whitman
American Literature 73(1): 85-119 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-85 [PDF]  

E. Shaskan Bumas

Fictions of the Panopticon: Prison, Utopia, and the Out-Penitent in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
American Literature 73(1): 121-145 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-121 [PDF]  

Jack Kerkering

"Of Me and of Mine": The Music of Racial Identity in Whitman and Lanier, Dvoák and DuBois
American Literature 73(1): 147-184 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-147 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Paul Gutjahr

Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America
By Robert Blair St. George. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2000. xii, 417 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 73(1): 185-186 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-185 [PDF]  

Michelle Burnham

Republic of Letters: The American Intellectual Community, 1775-1865
By Gilman M. Ostrander. Madison, Wisc.: Madison House. 1999. xvi, 379 pp. $35.95.
American Literature 73(1): 186-187 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-186 [PDF]  

Scott Andrews

The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects
By Renée Bergland. Hanover, New Hampshire: Univ. Press of New England. 2000. 199 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 73(1): 187-188 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-187 [PDF]  

Lisa M. Logan

Cartographies of Desire: Captivity, Race, and Sex in the Shaping of an American Nation
By Rebecca Blevins Faery. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 1999. x, 275 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 73(1): 188-189 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-188 [PDF]  

Robert Blair St. George

The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic
By Laura Rigal. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 1998. xii, 253 pp. $32.50.
American Literature 73(1): 189-191 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-189 [PDF]  

Susan M. Ryan

Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America
By Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2000. x, 216 pp. Cloth, $42.00; paper, $16.00.
American Literature 73(1): 191-192 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-191 [PDF]  

Nina Baym

Ruthless Democracy: A Multicultural Interpretation of the American Renaissance
By Timothy B. Powell. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2000. vi, 227 pp. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $15.95.
American Literature 73(1): 192-193 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-192 [PDF]  

Susan Albertine

Plots and Proposals: American Women's Fiction, 1850-1890
By Karen Tracey. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2000. ix, 206 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $16.95.
American Literature 73(1): 193-194 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-193 [PDF]  

Malini Johar Schueller

Dreaming Black/Writing White: The Hagar Myth in American Cultural History
By Janet Gabler-Hover. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky. 2000. xii, 196 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 73(1): 194-195 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-194 [PDF]  

Charles Scruggs

Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America
By Gavin Jones. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 1999. xi, 288 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 73(1): 196-197 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-196 [PDF]  

John Dolis

Henry James and Modern Moral Life
By Robert B. Pippin. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 193 pp. $49.95.
American Literature 73(1): 197-198 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-197 [PDF]  

James M. Albrecht

Henry James and the Language of Experience
By Collin Meissner. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 1999. ix, 237 pp. $59.95.
American Literature 73(1): 198-199 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-198 [PDF]  

Elsa Nettels

The Dean of American Letters: The Late Career of William Dean Howells
By John W. Crowley. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 1999. 146 pp. $25.00.
American Literature 73(1): 199-200 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-199 [PDF]  

Marianna De Marco Torgovnick

Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern
By Michael North. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. vii, 269 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 73(1): 200-201 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-200 [PDF]  

David Jarraway

The Poetics of Transition: Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism
By Jonathan Levin. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1999. xviii, 222 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 73(1): 201-202 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-201 [PDF]  

Carl P. Eby

Reading Desire: In Pursuit of Ernest Hemingway
By Debra A. Moddelmog. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 1999. xiii, 189 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 73(1): 202-203 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-202 [PDF]  

Wesley Morris

William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist
By Daniel J. Singal. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 1999. xii, 357 pp. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 73(1): 203-204 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-203 [PDF]  

George S. Lensing

Eliot's Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art
By Ronald Schuchard. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. xiii, 268 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 73(1): 204-205 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-204 [PDF]  

Violet Harrington Bryan

The Road from Pompey's Head: The Life and Work of Hamilton Basso
By Inez Hollander Lake. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 1999. xxii, 279 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 73(1): 205-206 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-205 [PDF]  

Charlotte H. Beck

Ritual, Myth, and Mysticism in the Work of Mary Butts: Between Feminism and Modernism
By Roslyn Reso Foy. Fayetteville: Univ. of Arkansas Press. 2000. xvii, 163 pp. $34.00.
American Literature 73(1): 207-208 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-207 [PDF]  

Judith E. Barlow

Eugene O'Neill and His Eleven-Play Cycle: "A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed"
By Donald C. Gallup. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 1998. 306 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 73(1): 208-209 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-208 [PDF]  

Rhonda Frederick

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Race and Gender in the Work of Zora Neale Hurston
By Susan Edwards Meisenhelder. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 1999. 258 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 73(1): 209-210 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-209 [PDF]  

Brooke Horvath

Liar! Liar! Jack Kerouac—Novelist
By R. J. Ellis. London: Greenwich Exchange. 1999. 294 pp. £13.95.
American Literature 73(1): 210-211 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-210 [PDF]  

Christina Bieber

Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist
By Richard Giannone. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2000. x, 287 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 73(1): 211-212 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-211 [PDF]  

Yoonmee Chang

The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation
By Rachel C. Lee. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 205 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $16.95.
American Literature 73(1): 212-213 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-212 [PDF]  

Ira Dworkin

Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African American Life
By Jon-Christian Suggs. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2000. xiii, 401 pp. $67.50.
American Literature 73(1): 214-215 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-214 [PDF]  

Blanche Gelfant

Violence in the Contemporary American Novel: An End to Innocence
By James R. Giles. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press. 2000. xiii, 161 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 73(1): 215-216 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-215 [PDF]  

Sam B. Girgus

Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature
By Rachel Rubin. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2000. xii, 189 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 73(1): 216-217 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-216 [PDF]  

Dana D. Nelson

Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Image
By Andrew Burstein. New York: Hill and Wang. 1999. xxi, 406 pp. $28.00.
American Literature 73(1): 217-218 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-217 [PDF]  

Susan Gubar

American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture
By Shawn Michelle Smith. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 299 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper $19.95.
American Literature 73(1): 218-219 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-218 [PDF]  

Dana Phillips

Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature
By Patrick D. Murphy. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia. 2000. xviii, 254 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $18.50.
American Literature 73(1): 219-220 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-219 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 73(1): 221-228 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-221 [PDF]  

Announcements
American Literature 73(1): 229-230 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-1-229 [PDF]  

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