Articles

Deak Nabers

"Victory of LAW": Melville and Reconstruction
American Literature 75(1): 1-30 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-1 [PDF]  

Naomi Z. Sofer

"Carry[ing] a Yankee Girl to Glory": Redefining Female Authorship in the Postbellum United States
American Literature 75(1): 31-60 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-31 [PDF]  

David A. Zimmerman

Frank Norris, Market Panic, and the Mesmeric Sublime
American Literature 75(1): 61-90 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-61 [PDF]  

Marsha Orgeron

Rethinking Authorship: Jack London and the Motion Picture Industry
American Literature 75(1): 91-117 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-91 [PDF]  

Stephanie Foote

Ethnic Plotting: Henry Harland and the Jewish Writer
American Literature 75(1): 119-140 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-119 [PDF]  

Susan Edmunds

The Race Question and the "Question of the Home": Revisiting the Lynching Plot in Jean Toomer's Cane
American Literature 75(1): 141-168 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-141 [PDF]  

Review Essay

Michael Bérubé

Anxious Academics
American Literature 75(1): 169-178 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-169 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Peter Coviello

Sympathy in American Literature: American Sentiments from Jefferson to the Jameses; A Vice for Voices: Reading Emily Dickinson's Correspondence
By Kristin Boudreau. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2002. xv, 247 pp. $55.00.
By Marietta Messmer. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2001. xi, 280 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 75(1): 179-181 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-179 [PDF]  

Bernice L. Hausman

American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences: Styles of Affiliation
By Nina Baym. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2002. x, 265 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $22.00.
American Literature 75(1): 181-183 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-181 [PDF]  

Claudia Stokes

Publishing the Family; The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors
By June Howard. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. xiv, 336 pp. Paper, $18.95.
By William Dean Howells et al. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. li, 341 pp. Paper, $18.95.
American Literature 75(1): 183-185 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-183 [PDF]  

Candice Jenkins

The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America; Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American
By Thomas Cooley. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2001. xxvi, 302 pp. $34.95.
By Robert F. Reid-Pharr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 166 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 75(1): 185-187 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-185 [PDF]  

Eden Osucha

Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination; The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America
By Rachel Adams. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2001. xi, 289 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.00.
By Benjamin Reiss. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2001. x, 267 pp. Cloth, $29.95.
American Literature 75(1): 187-189 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-187 [PDF]  

Dolan Hubbard

The Absent Man: The Narrative Quest of Charles W. Chesnutt
By Charles Duncan. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 1998. xx, 214 pp. $36.95.
American Literature 75(1): 190-191 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-190 [PDF]  

Jené Lee

Faulkner's Questioning Narratives: Fiction of His Major Phase, 1929-42; Subversive Voices: Eroticizing the Other in William Faulkner and Toni Morrison
By David Minter. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2001. xiv, 166 pp. $35.00.
By Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press. 2001. xiii, 183 pp. $25.00.
American Literature 75(1): 191-193 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-191 [PDF]  

Catherine Cucinella

Elizabeth Bishop's World War II-Cold War View; Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction; Revising Flannery O'Connor: Southern Literary Culture and the Problem of Female Authorship
By Camille Roman. New York: Palgrave. 2001. v, 173 pp. $45.00.
By Roberta Rubenstein. New York: Palgrave. 2001. viii, 210 pp. $45.00.
By Katherine Hemple Prown. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia. 2001. iii, 201 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 75(1): 193-196 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-193 [PDF]  

Joseph Kronick

Writing the Radical Center: William Carlos Williams, John Dewey, and American Cultural Politics; Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry between the World Wars
By John Beck. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2001. xii, 202 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $19.95.
By Michael Thurston. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2001. viii, 272 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 75(1): 196-198 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-196 [PDF]  

Jeanne Heuving

In the Process of Poetry: The New York School and the Avant-Garde; Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity
By William Watkin. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell Univ. Press; Cranbury, N.J.: Associated Univ. Presses. 2001. 314 pp. $47.50.
By Juliana Spahr. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2001. xiii, 224 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 75(1): 198-200 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-198 [PDF]  

Stephen Knadler

Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson; The Origins of African American Literature: A History of the African American Literary Presence, 1680-1865
By Keith Clark. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2002. x, 164 pp. $34.95.
By Dickson D. Bruce Jr. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2001. xv, 374 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.50.
American Literature 75(1): 201-203 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-201 [PDF]  

Katherine Sugg

The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf
By Lisa Williams. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2000. xii, 194 pp. $59.95.
American Literature 75(1): 203-204 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-203 [PDF]  

Elisabeth Brown

Paratextual Communities: American Avant-Garde Poetry since 1950
By Susan Vanderborg. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2001. xiv, 156 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 75(1): 205-207 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-205 [PDF]  

Diane McKay

White Women Writing White: H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Whiteness; The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy; White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel
By Renée R. Curry. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2000. xii, 184 pp. $62.50.
By Mason Stokes. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. viii, 252 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $18.95.
By Catherine Jurca. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2001. viii, 238 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 75(1): 207-209 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-207 [PDF]  

Michael P. Kramer

Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard; Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: Return of the Exiled
By Siobhan Senier. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2001. xvi, 256 pp. $29.95.
By Andrew Furman. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press. 2000. ix, 214 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 75(1): 210-211 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-210 [PDF]  

Kandice Chuh

Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America; Reimagining the American Pacific: From "South Pacific" to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond
By David L. Eng. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. viii, 290 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $18.95.
By Rob Wilson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. xix, 295 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $21.95.
American Literature 75(1): 212-214 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-212 [PDF]  

Bryan Wagner

Whispers on the Color Line: Rumor and Race in America; At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture
By Gary Alan Fine and Patricia A. Turner. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2001. x, 260 pp. $27.50.
By Edward J. Ingebretsen. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2001. xvi, 341 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 75(1): 214-215 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-214 [PDF]  

Carol J. Singley

Demon or Doll: Images of the Child in Contemporary Writing and Culture
By Ellen Pifer. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia. 2000. x, 272 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.50.
American Literature 75(1): 215-217 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-215 [PDF]  

Jonathan Levin

The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness
By Carrie Tirado Bramen. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2000. 380 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 75(1): 218-220 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-218 [PDF]  

James Dawes

The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism; Modernism and Morality: Ethical Devices in European and American Fiction
By Wendy Steiner. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 1995. xi, 251 pp. Paper, $14.00.
By Martin Halliwell. New York: Palgrave. 2001. viii, 264 pp. $62.00.
American Literature 75(1): 220-222 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-220 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 75(1): 223-244 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-223 [PDF]  

Announcements
American Literature 75(1): 245-246 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-1-245 [PDF]  

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