Articles

Max Cavitch

The Man That Was Used Up: Poetry, Particularity, and the Politics of Remembering George Washington
American Literature 75(2): 247-274 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-247 [PDF]  

Melissa Ryan

The Enclosure of America: Civilization and Confinement in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!
American Literature 75(2): 275-303 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-275 [PDF]  

John Evelev

"Every One to His Trade": Mardi, Literary Form, and Professional Ideology
American Literature 75(2): 305-333 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-305 [PDF]  

Andrew Lawson

"Spending for Vast Returns": Sex, Class, and Commerce in the First Leaves of Grass
American Literature 75(2): 335-365 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-335 [PDF]  

Dona Yarbrough

A Queer Form of Trauma: Lesbian Epistolarity in Either Is Love
American Literature 75(2): 367-393 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-367 [PDF]  

Cheryl Higashida

Aunt Sue's Children: Re-viewing the Gender(ed) Politics of Richard Wright's Radicalism
American Literature 75(2): 395-425 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-395 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Srinivas Aravamudan

"Genius in Bondage": Literature of the Early Black Atlantic
Ed. Vincent Carretta and Philip Gould. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky. 2001. 272 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 75(2): 427-429 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-427 [PDF]  

Jonathan Beecher Field

American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature; Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture
By Timothy Sweet. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. 222 pp. $45.00.
By William Conlogue. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2001. 230 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 75(2): 429-431 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-429 [PDF]  

Eric Ashley Hairston

The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self
By John C. Shields. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press. 2001. xlv, 432 pp. $45.00
American Literature 75(2): 431-433 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-431 [PDF]  

Robert K. Nelson

The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race; Truth Stranger than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary Marketplace
By John Stauffer. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2002. 367 pp. $29.95.
By Augusta Rohrbach. New York: Palgrave. 2002. xvi, 153 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 75(2): 433-435 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-433 [PDF]  

Stephanie Foote

Getting at the Author: Reimagining Books and Reading in the Age of American Realism
By Barbara Hochman. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2001. xi, 185 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 75(2): 435-436 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-435 [PDF]  

Jeanne Campbell Reesman

Jack London's Women
By Clarice Stasz. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2001. xvi, 393 pp. $39.50.
American Literature 75(2): 436-437 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-436 [PDF]  

Edwin J. Barton

Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science; Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community
By Steven Meyer. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2001. xxiii, 450 pp. $55.00.
By Jessica Berman. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2001. x, 242 pp. $59.95.
American Literature 75(2): 438-439 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-438 [PDF]  

Stanley S. Blair

Modernist Sexualities; Harold Monro: Poet of the New Age
Ed. Hugh Stevens and Caroline Howlett. New York: St. Martin's. 2000. ix, 276 pp. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $32.95.
By Dominic Hibberd. New York: Palgrave. 2001. xii, 300 pp. $65.00.
American Literature 75(2): 440-442 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-440 [PDF]  

Alan Golding

Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left; Women Poets on the Left: Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, Margaret Walker
By Cary Nelson. New York: Routledge. 2001. 270 pp. $45.00.
By Nancy Berke. Gainesville: Univ. of Florida Press. 2001. viii, 202 pp. $55.00.
American Literature 75(2): 442-444 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-442 [PDF]  

Mary Ann Wilson

American Women Writers and the Nazis: Ethics and Politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford, and Hellman
By Thomas Carl Austenfeld. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2001. viii, 189 pp. $34.50.
American Literature 75(2): 444-445 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-444 [PDF]  

Sharon P. Holland

Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of the Sixties
By Margo V. Perkins. Jackson: Univ. of Mississippi Press. 2000. xviii, 161 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.00.
American Literature 75(2): 445-447 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-445 [PDF]  

Alex Feerst

Tactical Readings: Feminist Postmodernism in the Novels of Kathy Acker and Angela Carter; Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction; Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After
By Nicola Pitchford. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell Univ. Press; Cranbury, N.J.: Associated Univ. Presses. 2002. 223 pp. $42.50.
By Amy J. Elias. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2001. xxviii, 320 pp. $45.00.
By Marcel Cornis-Pope. New York: Palgrave. 2001. xiii, 318 pp. $59.95.
American Literature 75(2): 447-449 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-447 [PDF]  

Michael A. Elliott

The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre; Stages of Life: Transcultural Performance and Identity in U.S. Latina Theater; Legacy of Rage: Jewish Masculinity, Violence, and Culture; Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture
By James Nagel. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2001. xi, 297 pp. $49.95.
By Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez and Nancy Saporta Sternbach. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2001. x, 261 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $21.95.
By Warren Rosenberg. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2001. xi, 312 pp. $34.95.
By Jace Weaver. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2001. xiv, 381 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 75(2): 450-454 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-450 [PDF]  

Jonathan Elmer

Edgar Allan Poe, Wallace Stevens, and the Poetics of American Privacy; Word, Birth, and Culture: The Poetry of Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson
By Louis A. Renza. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2002. xix, 277 pp. $44.95.
By Daneen Wardrop. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2002. vii, 169 pp. $58.95.
American Literature 75(2): 454-456 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-454 [PDF]  

Christina Klein

Global Hollywood; The Language of New Media
By Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, John McMurria, and Richard Maxwell. London: British Film Institute. 2001. vi, 279 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $27.95.
By Lev Manovich. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2001. xxxix, 354 pp. Paper, $19.95.
American Literature 75(2): 456-458 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-456 [PDF]  

Carlo Rotella

The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became "Our Gang."; Class, Language, and American Film Comedy
By Chris Messenger. Albany: SUNY Press. 2002. viii, 344 pp. Cloth, $75.50; paper, $25.95.
By Christopher Beach. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. viii, 241 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.00.
American Literature 75(2): 458-460 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-458 [PDF]  

Stephanie Foote

Looking like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity; Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall
By Lisa Walker. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2001. xvii, 279 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $18.50.
By Christopher Nealon. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. xi, 209 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 75(2): 460-462 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-460 [PDF]  

Lawrence P. Jackson

Jazz Country: Ralph Ellison in America; Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction: Living in Paradox
By Horace Porter. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2001. 168 pp. $29.95.
By A. Yemisi Jimoh. 2002. viii, 284 pp. $30.00.
American Literature 75(2): 462-464 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-462 [PDF]  

Joycelyn Moody

Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature; "The Regulations of Robbers": Legal Fictions of Slavery and Resistance
By Trudier Harris. New York: Palgrave. 2001. vi, 218 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $18.95.
By Christina Accomando. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 257 pp. Paper, $22.95.
American Literature 75(2): 465-467 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-465 [PDF]  

Betsy Klimasmith

The Best and Worst Country in the World: Perspectives on the Early Virginia Landscape; Nature's State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier; Landscape with Figures: Nature and Culture in New England; American Geographics: U.S. National Narratives and the Representation of the Non-European World, 1830-1865
By Stephen Adams. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2001. xii, 352 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.50.
By Susan Kollin. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2001. xviii, 224 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $16.95.
By Kent C. Ryden. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2001. xx, 317 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
By Bruce A. Harvey. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2001. 331 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 75(2): 467-470 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-467 [PDF]  

Pamela E. Barnett

Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929-1941; Refiguring the Map of Sorrow: Nature Writing and Autobiography
By Brad D. Lookingbill. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2001. x, 190 pp. Paper, $16.95.
By Mark Allister. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2001. viii, 199 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $19.50.
American Literature 75(2): 470-472 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-470 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 75(2): 473-486 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-2-473 [PDF]  

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