Articles

Ed White

Captaine Smith, Colonial Novelist
American Literature 75(3): 487-513 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-3-487 [PDF]  

Lance Newman

Thoreau's Natural Community and Utopian Socialism
American Literature 75(3): 515-544 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-3-515 [PDF]  

Blake Allmendinger

The Plow and the Pen: The Pioneering Adventures of Oscar Micheaux
American Literature 75(3): 545-569 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-3-545 [PDF]  

Sarah Wilson

"Fragmentary and Inconclusive" Violence: National History and Literary Form in The Professor's House
American Literature 75(3): 571-599 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-3-571 [PDF]  

Ann Mikkelsen

"The Truth about Us": Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Paterson
American Literature 75(3): 601-627 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-3-601 [PDF]  

Susan Mizruchi

Lolita in History
American Literature 75(3): 629-652 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-3-629 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Matt Cohen and John David Miles

Revolutionary Histories: Transatlantic Cultural Nationalism, 1775-1815; Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing; The Devil & Doctor Dwight: Satire & Theology in the Early American Republic
Ed. W. M. Verhoeven. New York: Palgrave. 2002. xi, 258 pp. $69.95.
By Susan Manning. New York: Palgrave. 2002. viii, 339 pp. $69.95.
By Colin Wells. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2002. x, 254 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 75(3): 653-656 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-3-653 [PDF]  

Nancy Glazener

American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995; The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism; Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
By Phillip Barrish. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2001. x, 213 pp. $54.95.
By Michael A. Elliott. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2002. xxviii, 239 pp. Cloth, $60.95; paper, $21.95.
By Stephanie Foote. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 2001. vi, 218 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 75(3): 656-658 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-3-656 [PDF]  

William J. Maxwell

Ghostwriting Modernism; Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism
By Helen Sword. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2002. xiii, 212 pp. Cloth, $42.50; paper, $18.95.
By Kimberly W. Benston. New York: Routledge. 2000. xiii, 386 pp. Cloth, $100; paper, $29.95.
American Literature 75(3): 659-661 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-3-659 [PDF]  

Linda Wagner-Martin

Ethnic Modernisms: Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Dislocation; Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West
By Delia Caparoso Konzett. New York: Palgrave. 2002. xiv, 202 pp. $55.00.
By Sharon L. Jones. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2002. ix, 159 pp. $62.95.
American Literature 75(3): 661-663 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-3-661 [PDF]  

Frederick Luis Aldama

Red Matters: Native American Studies; Grave Concerns, Trickster Turns: The Novels of Louis Owens
By Arnold Krupat. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. xiv, 167 pp. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $18.95.
By Chris LaLonde. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2002. xiii, 220 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 75(3): 663-665 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-3-663 [PDF]  

Shelly Eversley

Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America; Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative
By Deborah Nelson. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2002. xxii, 209 pp. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $17.50.
By Patrick O'Donnell. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 193 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 75(3): 666-668 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-3-666 [PDF]  

David D. Cooper

Thoreau's Ecstatic Witness; Thomas Merton and the Inclusive Imagination
By Alan D. Hodder. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2001. xix, 346 pp. $35.00.
By Ross Labrie. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2001. ix, 263 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 75(3): 668-670 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-3-668 [PDF]  

Richard Wakefield

Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan and the Poetry of Illness; Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice; Going by Contraries: Robert Frost's Conflict with Science
By Peter O'Leary. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press. 2002. xviii, 268 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $24.95.
By Devin Johnston. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press. 2002. xii, 200 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $19.95.
By Robert Bernard Hass. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2002. xiii, 220 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $16.50.
American Literature 75(3): 670-672 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-3-670 [PDF]  

James M. Albrecht

The Heart of What Matters: The Role for Literature in Moral Philosophy
By Anthony Cunningham. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2001. x, 296 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 75(3): 673-674 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-3-673 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 75(3): 675-689 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-3-675 [PDF]  

Announcement
American Literature 75(3): 691 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-3-691 [PDF]  

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