Articles

Susan Scheckel

Home on the Train: Race and Mobility in The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
American Literature 74(2): 219-250 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-219 [PDF]  

Jana L. Argersinger

Family Embraces: The Unholy Kiss and Authorial Relations in The Wide, Wide World
American Literature 74(2): 251-285 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-251 [PDF]  

Pamela Lougheed

"Then Began He to Rant and Threaten": Indian Malice and Individual Liberty in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative
American Literature 74(2): 287-313 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-287 [PDF]  

C. Leiren Mower

Bodies in Labor: Sole Proprietorship and the Labor of Conduct in The Coquette
American Literature 74(2): 315-344 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-315 [PDF]  

Gillian Silverman

Textual Sentimentalism: Incest and Authorship in Melville's Pierre
American Literature 74(2): 345-372 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-345 [PDF]  

Jeanne Elders DeWaard

"Indelicate Exposure": Sentiment and Law in Fall River: An Authentic Narrative
American Literature 74(2): 373-401 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-373 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Laura Henigman

Colonial Transformations: The Cultural Production of the New Atlantic World, 1580-1640; The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from "The New England Primer" to "The Scarlet Letter."; The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture
By Rebecca Ann Bach. New York: Palgrave. 2000. xiv, 290 pp. $49.95.
By Patricia Crain. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2000. xiii, 315 pp. $45.00.
By Gillian Brown. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2001. 237 pp. $52.50.
American Literature 74(2): 403-405 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-403 [PDF]  

Julie Prebel

Return Passages: Great American Travel Writing, 1780-1910; Crossing Boundaries: Postmodern Travel Literature
By Larzer Ziff. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2000. 304 pp. $29.95.
By Alison Russell. New York: Palgrave. 2000. 231 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 74(2): 406-408 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-406 [PDF]  

Barbara Ryan

American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation; Not in Sisterhood: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the Politics of Female Authorship
By Caleb Crain. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2001. x, 310 pp. $35.00.
By Deborah Lindsay Williams. New York: Palgrave. 2001. xi, 225 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 74(2): 408-410 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-408 [PDF]  

Thomas C. Johnson

James Whitcomb Riley: A Life
By Elizabeth J. Van Allen. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 352 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 74(2): 410-411 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-410 [PDF]  

John Clendenning

Stephen Crane's Blue Badge of Courage; The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Economies of Play
By George Monteiro. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2000. 224 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95.
By Bill Brown. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 1996. xiii, 335 pp. Cloth, $53.50; paper, $26.50.
American Literature 74(2): 411-413 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-411 [PDF]  

Cindy Weinstein

Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
By Lori Merish. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. ix, 389 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $21.95.
American Literature 74(2): 413-415 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-413 [PDF]  

Peter Kvidera

Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making the United States Home, 1870-1930
Orm Øverland. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2000. x, 243 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 74(2): 416-417 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-416 [PDF]  

Laura Doyle

The Eye's Mind: Literary Modernism and Visual Culture
By Karen Jacobs. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2001. viii, 311 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 74(2): 418-419 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-418 [PDF]  

Adam Hotek

Authentic Blackness: The Folk in the New Negro Renaissance
By J. Martin Favor. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1999. viii, 187 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 74(2): 419-421 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-419 [PDF]  

Michael Thurston

Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism; New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State
By Sean McCann. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. viii, 370 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95.
By Michael Szalay. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. 343 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 74(2): 421-423 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-421 [PDF]  

Terence Martin

Queer Burroughs
By Jamie Russell New York: Palgrave. 2001. vi, 256 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 74(2): 424-426 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-424 [PDF]  

Stephen Knadler

Literatures of Memory: History, Time, and Space in Postwar Writing
By Peter Middleton and Tim Woods. Manchester, Eng.: Manchester Univ. Press. 2000. viii, 323 pp. Cloth; $69.95; paper, $29.95.
American Literature 74(2): 426-428 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-426 [PDF]  

Josephine Lee

Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier; The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism and Asian American Identity
By David Palumbo-Liu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 1999. vi, 504. Paper, $25.95.
By Sheng-mei Ma. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2000. xxiii, 208 pp. Paper, $16.95.
American Literature 74(2): 428-430 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-428 [PDF]  

Anita Plath Helle

Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-Garde; Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing; The Language of Inquiry
By Libbie Rifkin. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 2000. viii. 172 pp. Cloth, $37.95; paper, $16.95.
By Ann Vickery. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press; Hanover, N.H.: Univ. Press of New England. x, 354 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95.
By Lyn Hejinian. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2000. ix, 438 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 74(2): 430-433 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-430 [PDF]  

Cornelius Browne

American Literary Environmentalism
By David Mazel. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2000. xxv, 198 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 74(2): 433 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-433 [PDF]  

Adam Sweeting

Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond
By Lawrence Buell. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press. 2001. viii, 365 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 74(2): 435-437 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-435 [PDF]  

Melissa Solomon

Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts and the Politics of the Paraliterary
By Samuel R. Delany. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press; Hanover, N.H.: Univ. Press of New England. 1999. xii, 464 pp. Paper, $22.00.
American Literature 74(2): 437-439 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-437 [PDF]  

Theodore A. Coe

Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Tradition
By Richard Keller Simon. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 1999. x, 189. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $15.95.
American Literature 74(2): 439-441 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-439 [PDF]  

Nina Baym

Beautiful Work: A Meditation on Pain; Dreaming by the Book
By Sharon Cameron. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. vi, 121 pp. $18.95.
By Elaine Scarry. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2001. 292 pp. Cloth, $26.00; paper, $16.95.
American Literature 74(2): 441-443 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-441 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 74(2): 445-451 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-445 [PDF]  

Announcement
American Literature 74(2): 453 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-2-453 [PDF]  

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