Articles

Rodrigo Lazo

Filibustering Cuba: Cecilia Valdés and a Memory of Nation in the Americas
American Literature 74(1): 1-30 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-1 [PDF]  

Jennifer L. Schulz

Restaging the Racial Contract: James Weldon Johnson's Signatory Strategies
American Literature 74(1): 31-58 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-31 [PDF]  

Kendall Johnson

"Dark Spot" in the Picturesque: The Aesthetics of Polygenism and Henry James's "A Landscape-Painter"
American Literature 74(1): 59-87 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-59 [PDF]  

Barbara Hochman

The Reading Habit and "The Yellow Wallpaper"
American Literature 74(1): 89-110 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-89 [PDF]  

Bryce Traister

The Wandering Bachelor: Irving, Masculinity, and Authorship
American Literature 74(1): 111-137 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-111 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Fritz Fleischmann

Coming into Communion: Pastoral Dialogues in Colonial New England
By Laura Henigman. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 1999. xi, 234 pp. Cloth, $54.50; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 74(1): 139-140 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-139 [PDF]  

Scott Andrews

Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America
By Hilary E. Wyss. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2000. xiii, 207 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 74(1): 140-142 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-140 [PDF]  

James M. Albrecht

Culture of Eloquence: Oratory and Reform in Antebellum America
By James Perrin Warren. University Park: Penn State Univ. Press. 1999. ix, 202 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 74(1): 142-143 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-142 [PDF]  

John McWilliams

The Marriage of Heaven and Earth: Alchemical Regeneration in the Works of Taylor, Poe, Hawthorne, and Fuller
By Randall A. Clack. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2000. 152 pp. $62.50.
American Literature 74(1): 143-145 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-143 [PDF]  

Eric Lott

Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop
By W. T. Lhamon Jr. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 1998. x, 269 pp. $24.95.
American Literature 74(1): 146-147 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-146 [PDF]  

Barbara Packer

Beechers, Stowes, and Yankee Strangers: The Transformation of Florida
By John T. Foster Jr. and Sarah Whitmer Foster. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 1999. xix, 158 pp. $24.95.
American Literature 74(1): 147-148 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-147 [PDF]  

Kathryn West

The Web of Iniquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women
By Catherine Ross Nickerson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1998. xix, 275 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 74(1): 148-149 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-148 [PDF]  

Albert Gelpi

Nimble Believing: Dickinson and the Unknown
By James McIntosh. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2000. xiii, 194 pp. $42.50.
American Literature 74(1): 150-151 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-150 [PDF]  

Larry Carlson

Louisa May Alcott and Charlotte Brontë: Transatlantic Translations
By Christine Doyle. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press. 2000. xxiv, 203 pp. $28.00.
American Literature 74(1): 151-152 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-151 [PDF]  

Allan Hepburn

In Darkest James: Reviewing Impressionism, 1900-1905
By Robin Hoople. Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell Univ. Press. 2000. 299 pp. $46.50.
American Literature 74(1): 152-154 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-152 [PDF]  

Thomas J. Ferraro

The Temple of Culture: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America
By Jonathan Freedman. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2000. vi, 264 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 74(1): 155 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-155 [PDF]  

Joycelyn Moody

Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
By Glenn Hendler. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2001. x, 275 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 74(1): 156-158 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-156 [PDF]  

Stephanie Foote

A Group of Their Own: College Writing Courses and American Women Writers, 1880-1940
By Katherine H. Adams. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2001. xix, 220 pp. Paper, $21.95.
American Literature 74(1): 158-159 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-158 [PDF]  

Linda Williams

Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era
By Jane Gaines. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2001. xvi, 359 pp. Cloth, $49.00; paper, $19.00.
American Literature 74(1): 160-161 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-160 [PDF]  

Carol Farley Kessler

Reforming Fictions: Native, African, and Jewish American Women's Literature and Journalism in the Progressive Era
By Carol J. Batker. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2000. x, 202 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $17.50.
American Literature 74(1): 162-164 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-162 [PDF]  

Michael J. Hoffman

The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception, 1905-1920
By Mark Morrisson. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 2000. xiv, 268 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 74(1): 164-165 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-164 [PDF]  

Allan Burns

Gertrude Stein, Modernism, and the Problem of "Genius"
By Barbara Will. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 180 pp. £40.00.
American Literature 74(1): 165-167 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-165 [PDF]  

Anne Charles

The Pilgrimage of Dorothy Richardson
By Joanne Winning. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 2000. ix, 230 pp. Cloth, $57.95; paper, $22.95.
American Literature 74(1): 167-169 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-167 [PDF]  

Petra Dreiser

Conjuring the Folk: Forms of Modernity in African America
By David G. Nicholls. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2000. xi, 180 pp. $42.50.
American Literature 74(1): 170-171 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-170 [PDF]  

John McCluskey, Jr.

The Political Plays of Langston Hughes
By Susan Duffy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 221 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $16.95.
American Literature 74(1): 171-172 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-171 [PDF]  

Thomas K. Meier

Allen Tate: Orphan of the South
By Thomas A. Underwood. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2000. viii, 447 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 74(1): 172-174 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-172 [PDF]  

Stephanie Foote

Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930-1990
By Patricia Yaeger. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2000. xvii. 324 pp. Cloth, $49.00; paper, $18.00.
American Literature 74(1): 174-176 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-174 [PDF]  

Jennifer Rae Greeson and Candace Waid

Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism
By Richard Gray. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2000. xiv, 535 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $34.95.
American Literature 74(1): 176-177 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-176 [PDF]  

Adam Gussow

Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and Twentieth-Century American Poetry
By Lorenzo Thomas. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2000. xiv, 271 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 74(1): 177-179 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-177 [PDF]  

Betsy Klimasmith

Birthing a Nation: Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature
By Susan J. Rosowski. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 1999. xiv, 242 pp. $50.00.
American Literature 74(1): 179-181 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-179 [PDF]  

Julia Mickenberg

Condensing the Cold War: "Reader's Digest" and American Identity
By Joanne P. Sharp. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2000. xix, 207 pp. Cloth, $29.95.
American Literature 74(1): 181-183 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-181 [PDF]  

Michael A. Elliott

Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination
By Shari M. Huhndorf. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2001. xiv, 220 pp. Cloth, $42.50; paper, $16.95.
American Literature 74(1): 183-185 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-183 [PDF]  

Claudia Sadowski-Smith

The Fence and the River: Culture and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border
By Claire F. Fox. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 1999. x, 188 pp. Cloth, $47.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 74(1): 185-187 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-185 [PDF]  

Gretchen Murphy

Mavericks on the Border: The Early Southwest in Historical Fiction and Film; The Medicine Line: Life and Death on a North American Borderland
By J. Douglas Canfield. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky. 2001. ix, 238 pp. $27.50.
By Beth LaDow. New York: Routledge. 2001. xviii, 272 pp. $25.00.
American Literature 74(1): 187-190 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-187 [PDF]  

Ana Patricia Rodríguez

Feminism on the Border: Chicana Gender Politics and Literature
By Sonia Saldívar-Hull. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2000. xii. 214 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $16.95.
American Literature 74(1): 190-191 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-190 [PDF]  

Bonnie Gaarden

Understanding Children's Literature
Ed. Peter Hunt. New York: Routledge. 1998. x, 188 pp. $24.95.
American Literature 74(1): 191-192 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-191 [PDF]  

Frederick Luis Aldama

Continental Divides: Revisioning American Literature
By Anne E. Goldman. New York: Palgrave. 2000. xvi, 208 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 74(1): 192-194 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-192 [PDF]  

Ian Frederick Finseth

Culture, Genre, and Literary Vocation: Selected Essays on American Literature
By Michael Davitt Bell. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2001. xv, 231 pp. Cloth, $48.00; paper, $19.00.
American Literature 74(1): 194-196 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-194 [PDF]  

Christopher Newfield

The California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan
By John Aubrey Douglass. Stanford, Calif: Stanford Univ. Press. 2000. xiii, 460 pp. $55.00
American Literature 74(1): 196-198 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-196 [PDF]  

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American Literature 74(1): 199-213 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-199 [PDF]  

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American Literature 74(1): 215-217 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-1-215 [PDF]  

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