Articles

Sarah Robbins

Periodizing Authorship, Characterizing Genre: Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Benevolent Literacy Narratives
American Literature 76(1): 1-29 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-1-1 [PDF]  

Colleen Glenney Boggs

Margaret Fuller's American Translation
American Literature 76(1): 31-58 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-1-31 [PDF]  

Sarah Wilson

Melville and the Architecture of Antebellum Masculinity
American Literature 76(1): 59-87 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-1-59 [PDF]  

Anne Carroll

Protest and Affirmation: Composite Texts in the Crisis
American Literature 76(1): 89-116 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-1-89 [PDF]  

Maria Farland

Gertrude Stein's Brain Work
American Literature 76(1): 117-148 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-1-117 [PDF]  

Amy L. Blair

Misreading The House of Mirth
American Literature 76(1): 149-175 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-1-149 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Rebecca Wanzo

The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction; Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony
By Angelyn Mitchell. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2002. xiv, 170 pp. Cloth, $59.00; paper, $20.00.
By Dwight A. McBride. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2002. xvi, 205 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.00.
American Literature 76(1): 177-179 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-1-177 [PDF]  

John Lowe

Faulkner on the Color Line: The Later Novels; Natural Aristocracy: History, Ideology, and the Production of William Faulkner; The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History
By Teresa M. Towner. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2000. 179 pp. $35.00.
By Kevin Railey. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 1999. ix, 213 pp. $29.95.
By Charlotte H. Beck. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 303 pp. $49.95.
American Literature 76(1): 179-182 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-1-179 [PDF]  

Norman Finkelstein

Recovering the New: Transatlantic Roots of Modernism; Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity; The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks
By Edward S. Cutler. Hanover, N.H.: Univ. Press of New England. 2003. x, 215 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95.
By Phillip E. Wegner. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2002. xxvi, 297 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.50.
By Philip Nel. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2002. xxv, 224 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 76(1): 182-185 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-1-182 [PDF]  

Tim Engles

Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature; The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness
By Dorothy E. Mosby. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2003. xiii, 248 pp. $34.95.
By Stephen P. Knadler. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2002. xxviii, 249 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 76(1): 185-187 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-1-185 [PDF]  

Rafael Pérez-Torres

Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space; Gang Nation: Delinquent Citizens in Puerto Rican, Chicano, and Chicana Narratives
By Mary Pat Brady. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2002. xiii, 274 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $18.95.
By Monica Brown. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2002. xxxv, 212 pp. Cloth, $52.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 76(1): 187-189 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-1-187 [PDF]  

Mark Chiang

National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage; Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America
By Karen Shimakawa. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2002. xi, 192 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $18.95.
By Viet Thanh Nguyen. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2002. ix, 228 pp. Paper, $19.95.
American Literature 76(1): 189-191 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-1-189 [PDF]  

Stephen P. Knadler

Mercy, Mercy Me: African-American Culture and the American Sixties; Nationalism, Marxism, and African American Literature between the Wars: A New Pandora's Box; South of Tradition: Essays on African American Literature
By James C. Hall. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2001. x, 283 pp. $47.50.
By Anthony Dawahare. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2003. xix, 161 pp. $37.00.
By Trudier Harris-Lopez. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2002. xv, 230 pp. $24.95.
American Literature 76(1): 191-194 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-1-191 [PDF]  

Kevin Meehan

Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women's Travel Writing; Mothering the Race: Women's Narratives of Reproduction, 1890-1930
By Sidonie Smith. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2001. xvii, 224 pp. Cloth, $59.00; paper, $19.95.
By Allison Berg. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2002. x, 186 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 76(1): 194-196 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-1-194 [PDF]  

Christopher P. Wilson

Contemporary American Crime Fiction; Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction; The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir
By Hans Bertens and Theo D'haen. New York: Palgrave. 2001. ix, 233 pp. $62.00.
By Maureen T. Reddy. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2003. viii, 213 pp. Cloth, $56.00; paper, $19.00.
By Megan E. Abbott. New York: Palgrave. 2002. ix, 246 pp. $59.95.
American Literature 76(1): 196-199 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-1-196 [PDF]  

Piotr Gwiazda

Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry; Abandoned New England: Landscape in the Works of Homer, Frost, Hopper, Wyeth, and Bishop
By Bonnie Costello. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2003. x, 225 pp. $35.00.
By Priscilla Paton. Hanover, N.H.: Univ. Press of New England. 2003. xvii, 282 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 76(1): 199-201 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-1-199 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 76(1): 203-215 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-1-203 [PDF]  

Announcements
American Literature 76(1): 217-219 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-1-217 [PDF]  

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