Articles

Matthew Cordova Frankel

"Nature's Nation" Revisited: Citizenship and the Sublime in Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
American Literature 73(4): 695-726 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-695 [PDF]  

Augusta Rohrbach

"Truth Stronger and Stranger Than Fiction": Reexamining William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator
American Literature 73(4): 727-755 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-727 [PDF]  

Thomas F. Haddox

The "Nous" of Southern Catholic Quadroons: Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Identity in Les Cenelles
American Literature 73(4): 757-778 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-757 [PDF]  

Paul Giles

Narrative Reversals and Power Exchanges: Frederick Douglass and British Culture
American Literature 73(4): 779-810 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-779 [PDF]  

Cynthia Dobbs

Flooded: The Excesses of Geography, Gender, and Capitalism in Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
American Literature 73(4): 811-835 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-811 [PDF]  

Evan Carton

Crossing Harpers Ferry: Liberal Education and John Brown's Corpus
American Literature 73(4): 837-863 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-837 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Kurt Eisen

Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1862
By Richard Gravil. New York: St. Martin's. 2000. xx, 250 pp. $49.95.
American Literature 73(4): 865-866 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-865 [PDF]  

Mary Loeffelholz

America's Sketchbook: The Cultural Life of a Nineteenth-Century Literary Genre; Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
By Kristie Hamilton. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 1998. xiii, 190 pp. $29.95.
By Mary Louise Kete. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. xx, 280 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 73(4): 866-868 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-866 [PDF]  

Lynn Wardley

Divine Destiny: Gender and Race in Nineteenth-Century Protestantism
By Carolyn A. Haynes. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 1998. xxi, 190 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 73(4): 869-870 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-869 [PDF]  

David Holloway

Bret Harte: Opening the American Literary West
By Gary Scharnhorst. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2000. xvi, 256 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 73(4): 870-871 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-870 [PDF]  

Charles L. Crow

No Mentor but Myself: Jack London on Writing and Writers, 2d. ed
Ed. Dale L. Walker and Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 1999. xxii, 243 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 73(4): 871-872 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-871 [PDF]  

Eric Henderson

Personal Property: Wives, White Slaves, and the Market in Women
By Margit Stange. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 1998. x, 171 pp. $32.50.
American Literature 73(4): 872-873 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-872 [PDF]  

Tricia Rose

Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism
By Joseph Allen Boone. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 1998. xii, 513 pp. $54.00.
American Literature 73(4): 873-874 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-873 [PDF]  

Reginald Dyck

American Voices of the Chicago Renaissance
By Lisa Woolley. Dekalb: Northern Illinois Univ. Press. 2000. xii, 178 pp. $38.00.
American Literature 73(4): 874-875 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-874 [PDF]  

Marilyn Mehaffy

Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-46; Afro-Modernist Aesthetics and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown
By Bill V. Mullen. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 1999. xi, 242 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $16.95.
By Mark A. Sanders. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 1999. xiv, 211 pp. Cloth, $45.00.
American Literature 73(4): 875-877 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-875 [PDF]  

Carl S. Horner

Flannery O'Connor: The Obedient Imagination
By Sarah Gordon. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2000. xviii, 270 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 73(4): 877-878 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-877 [PDF]  

Barbara Eckstein

The South in Black and White: Race, Sex, and Literature in the 1940s
By McKay Jenkins. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 1999. ix, 215 pp. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $16.95.
American Literature 73(4): 879-880 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-879 [PDF]  

Caren Irr

A Gendered Collision: Sentimentalism and Modernism in Dorothy Parker's Poetry and Fiction
By Rhonda S. Pettit. Cranbury, N.J.: Farleigh Dickinson Univ. Press. 2000. 248 pp. $39.50.
American Literature 73(4): 880-881 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-880 [PDF]  

Leonard M. Scigaj

Voice and Vision: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath
By Gayle Wurst. Geneva, Switzerland: Slatkine. 1999. 394 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 73(4): 881-882 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-881 [PDF]  

Robert Merrill

The American Mystery: American Literature from Emerson to DeLillo
By Tony Tanner. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2000. xxiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 73(4): 882-883 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-882 [PDF]  

Christian Campbell

Symbolizing the Past: Reading "Sankofa," "Daughters of the Dust," and "Eve's Bayou" as Histories
By Sandra M. Grayson. Lanham, Md.: Univ. Press of America. 2000. ix, 96 pp. Paper, $21.95.
American Literature 73(4): 883-884 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-883 [PDF]  

Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.

Up from Bondage: The Literatures of Russian and African American Soul
By Dale E. Peterson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. x, 249 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 73(4): 884-885 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-884 [PDF]  

Michael Nowlin

Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature
. By Ethan Goffman. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2000. xiii, 262 pp. Cloth, $65.50; paper, $21.95.
American Literature 73(4): 885-887 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-885 [PDF]  

Theresa Delgadillo

Barrio-Logos: Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture
By Raél Homero Villa. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2000. xii, 274 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $16.95.
American Literature 73(4): 887-888 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-887 [PDF]  

Patricia Penn Hilden

Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism
By Craig S. Womack. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 1999. viii, 336 pp. Cloth, $41.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 73(4): 888-889 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-888 [PDF]  

Keith Byerman

Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities
By Laura Browder. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2000. xii, 312 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 73(4): 889-890 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-889 [PDF]  

Eden Osucha

A Genealogy of Queer Theory
By William B. Turner. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple Univ. Press. 2000. xv, 256 pp. Cloth, $69.50; paper, $22.95.
American Literature 73(4): 890-891 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-890 [PDF]  

James Dawes

Shadows of Ethics: Criticism and the Just Society
By Geoffrey Galt Harpham. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1999. xiv, 282 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 73(4): 892 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-892 [PDF]  

Kathe Davis

Back from the Far Field: American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century
By Bernard W. Quetchenbach. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia. 2000. xv, 189 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $18.50.
American Literature 73(4): 893-894 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-893 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 73(4): 895-908 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-895 [PDF]  

Announcements
American Literature 73(4): 909-910 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-4-909 [PDF]  

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