Articles

David Kazanjian

Charles Brockden Brown's Biloquial Nation: National Culture and White Settler Colonialism in Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
American Literature 73(3): 459-496 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-459 [PDF]  

Robert K. Nelson and Kenneth M. Price

Debating Manliness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Sloane Kennedy, and the Question of Whitman
American Literature 73(3): 497-524 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-497 [PDF]  

Dana Seitler

Down on All Fours: Atavistic Perversions and the Science of Desire from Frank Norris to Djuna Barnes
American Literature 73(3): 525-562 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-525 [PDF]  

Peter Lurie

"Some Trashy Myth of Reality's Escape": Romance, History, and Film Viewing in Absalom, Absalom!
American Literature 73(3): 563-597 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-563 [PDF]  

Jason W. Stevens

Bear, Outlaw, and Storyteller: American Frontier Mythology and the Ethnic Subjectivity of N. Scott Momaday
American Literature 73(3): 599-631 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-599 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Susan Kurjiaka

Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845
By Jared Gardner. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 1998. xvii, 238 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $16.95.
American Literature 73(3): 633-634 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-633 [PDF]  

Wesley T. Mott

Transcendental Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature
By Michael West. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2000. xxiv, 518 pp. $59.95.
American Literature 73(3): 634-635 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-634 [PDF]  

Philip D. Beidler

Our Preposterous Use of Literature: Emerson and the Nature of Reading
By T. S. McMillin. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2000. xii, 183 pp. $32.50.
American Literature 73(3): 635-636 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-635 [PDF]  

Eric Henderson

Poe and the Printed Word
By Kevin J. Hayes. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2000. xvii, 145 pp. $49.95.
American Literature 73(3): 636-637 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-636 [PDF]  

John Dolis

American Palestine: Melville, Twain, and the Holy Land Mania
By Hilton Obenzinger. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. xxi, 316 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 73(3): 637-639 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-637 [PDF]  

Lynn Z. Bloom

The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America
By Ann Fabian. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2000. xiii, 255 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 73(3): 639-640 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-639 [PDF]  

Judith E. Funston

Edith Wharton's Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental Fiction
By Hildegard Hoeller. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2000. xiv, 225 pp. $49.95.
American Literature 73(3): 640-641 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-640 [PDF]  

Cecilia Konchar Farr

H.D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines
By Eileen Gregory. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 1997. xii, 321 pp. $64.95.
American Literature 73(3): 641-642 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-641 [PDF]  

Robert Merrill

Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines
By Erin A. Smith. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 215 pp. Cloth, $64.50; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 73(3): 642-643 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-642 [PDF]  

John G. Cawelti

Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science
By Ronald R. Thomas. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 1999. xviii, 341 pp. $59.95.
American Literature 73(3): 643-644 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-643 [PDF]  

Russell Harrison

John Fante: His Novels and Novellas
By Catherine J. Kordich. New York: Twayne. 2000. xvii, 155 pp. $32.00.
American Literature 73(3): 644-645 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-644 [PDF]  

Peter L. Hays

The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Vol. 1: 1920-1945
Ed. Albert J. Devlin and Nancy M. Tischler. New York: New Directions. 2000. xxv, 581 pp. $37.00.
American Literature 73(3): 645-646 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-645 [PDF]  

Martha G. Bower

Eugene O'Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy
By Stephen A. Black. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 1999. xxiv, 543 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 73(3): 646-647 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-646 [PDF]  

D. Quentin Miller

Kerouac, the Word and the Way: Prose Artist as Spiritual Quester
By Ben Giamo. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2000. xxi, 246 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 73(3): 647-648 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-647 [PDF]  

Leigh Kirkland

A Place for Wayfaring: The Poetry and Prose of Gary Snyder
By Patrick D. Murphy. Corvallis: Oregon State Univ. Press. 2000. viii, 248 pp. $21.95.
American Literature 73(3): 649-650 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-649 [PDF]  

Michael Davidson

Mad To Be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film
By David Sterritt. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 1998. xii, 258 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 73(3): 650-651 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-650 [PDF]  

Kathryn R. Kent

Stein, Bishop, and Rich: Lyrics of Love, War, and Place
By Margaret Dickie. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 1997. 234 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 73(3): 651-652 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-651 [PDF]  

Kirk Nesset

American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture
By Mark Osteen. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2000. 299 pp. $42.50.
American Literature 73(3): 652-653 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-652 [PDF]  

Larry D. Griffin

A Race of Singers: Whitman's Working-Class Hero from Guthrie to Springsteen
By Bryan K. Garman. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2000. xi, 338 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 73(3): 653-654 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-653 [PDF]  

Eric Schocket

American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction since 1960
By Kathryn Hume. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2000. 359 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 73(3): 654-655 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-654 [PDF]  

Wendy Martin

Landscapes of the New West: Gender and Geography in Contemporary Women's Writing
By Krista Comer. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 1999. x, 302 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 73(3): 655-656 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-655 [PDF]  

Kenneth M. Roemer

Higher Ground: From Utopianism to Realism in American Feminist Thought and Theory
By Sally L. Kitch. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2000. x, 308 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $17.00.
American Literature 73(3): 656-657 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-656 [PDF]  

Rebecca Wanzo

The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from "Clarissa" to "Rescue 911."; The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature
By Laura Hinton. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 1999. xiii, 279 pp. Paper, $18.95.
By Marianne Noble. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2000. viii, 258 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 73(3): 658-660 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-658 [PDF]  

Tara L. McPherson

But Now I See: The White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative
By Fred Hobson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 1999. xiv, 159 pp. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $14.95.
American Literature 73(3): 660-661 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-660 [PDF]  

Donald Gibson

Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin; Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography
By Deborah McDowell. New York: Norton. 1996. 364 pp. Paper, $13.00.
By Robert B. Stepto. Boston: Beacon Press. 1998. 204 pp. Cloth, $23.00; paper, $14.00.
American Literature 73(3): 661-662 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-661 [PDF]  

Charles Scruggs

The White Image in the Black Mind: A Study of African American Literature
By Jane Davis. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2000. xx, 161 pp. $55.00.
American Literature 73(3): 663-664 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-663 [PDF]  

Colleen Lye

Assimilating Asians: Gender Strategies of Authorship in Asian America
By Patricia Chu. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. 241 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 73(3): 664-665 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-664 [PDF]  

Helena Grice

Chinese American Literature since the 1850s
By Xiao-huang Yin. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2000. xiv, 307 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 73(3): 665-666 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-665 [PDF]  

Robert L. Caserio

A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition
By Gregory Woods. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 1998. 456 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 73(3): 666-667 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-666 [PDF]  

Nancy Cook

Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down
By Allan G. Bogue. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 1998. xviii, 557 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 73(3): 667-668 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-667 [PDF]  

David Carpenter

Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry
By Richard W. Etulain. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press. 1999. xiii, 174 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 73(3): 669-670 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-669 [PDF]  

Josh Kun

The Cowboy and the Dandy: Crossing Over from Romanticism to Rock and Roll
By Perry Meisel. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. ix, 156 pp. $24.95.
American Literature 73(3): 670-671 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-670 [PDF]  

Bonnie Gaarden

God and the American Writer
By Alfred Kazin. New York: Knopf. 1997. 272 pp. $25.00.
American Literature 73(3): 671-672 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-671 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 73(3): 673-689 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-673 [PDF]  

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American Literature 73(3): 691-694 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-3-691 [PDF]  

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