Articles

Caroline Levander

"Let Her White Progeny Offset Her Dark One": The Child and the Racial Politics of Nation Making
American Literature 76(2): 221-246 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-2-221 [PDF]  

Naomi C. Reed

The Specter of Wall Street: "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and the Language of Commodities
American Literature 76(2): 247-273 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-2-247 [PDF]  

John Timberman Newcomb

"The Housetop Sea": Cityscape Verse and the Rise of Modern American Poetry
American Literature 76(2): 275-306 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-2-275 [PDF]  

Julie Prebel

Engineering Womanhood: The Politics of Rejuvenation in Gertrude Atherton's Black Oxen
American Literature 76(2): 307-337 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-2-307 [PDF]  

Norman W. Jones

Coming Out through History's Hidden Love Letters in Absalom, Absalom!
American Literature 76(2): 339-366 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-2-339 [PDF]  

Ben Lee

"Howl" and Other Poems: Is There Old Left in These New Beats?
American Literature 76(2): 367-389 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-2-367 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Lance Newman

Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth; Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-Reliance; Emerson
By Laura Dassow Walls. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2003. viii, 280 pp. $35.00.
By Kenneth S. Sacks. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 199 pp. $29.95.
By Lawrence Buell. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 397 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 76(2): 391-393 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-2-391 [PDF]  

Glenn Hendler

Critical Fictions: Sentiment and the American Market, 1780-1870; Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States
By Joseph Fichtelberg. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. x, 280 pp. $39.95.
By Dan McKanan. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2002. ix, 294 pp. $52.00.
American Literature 76(2): 394-396 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-2-394 [PDF]  

Shawn Michelle Smith

Barbaric Intercourse: Caricature and the Culture of Conduct, 1841-1936
By Martha Banta. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. xiv, 433 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $30.00.
American Literature 76(2): 396-397 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-2-396 [PDF]  

Melissa J. Homestead

American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853; Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
By Meredith L. McGill. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. viii, 364 pp. $39.95.
By Elizabeth McHenry. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2002. xiv, 423 pp. Paper, $18.95.
American Literature 76(2): 398-400 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-2-398 [PDF]  

Robert L. Caserio

Material Modernism: The Politics of the Page; Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924
By George Bornstein. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 185 pp. $55.00.
Ed. Robin G. Schulze. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2002. xviii, 504 pp. $50.00.
American Literature 76(2): 400-402 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-2-400 [PDF]  

Milette Shamir

Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth; All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s
By Ranen Omer-Sherman. Hanover, N.H.: Brandeis Univ. Press; Univ. Press of New England. 2002. xiii, 341 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95.
By Daniel Kane. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2003. xix, 306 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $27.50.
American Literature 76(2): 402-404 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-2-402 [PDF]  

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

The Invention of Native American Literature; Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts
By Robert Dale Parker. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2002. xii, 244 pp. Paper, $18.95.
By Chadwick Allen. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2002. x, 308 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 76(2): 405-407 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-2-405 [PDF]  

Ariana Vigil

Boricua Literature: A Literary History of the Puerto Rican Diaspora; The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherríe Moraga
By Lisa Sánchez González. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2001. viii, 216 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.00.
By Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2001. xvii, 199 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 76(2): 407-409 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-2-407 [PDF]  

Michael Lundblad

The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America; Reader of the Purple Sage: Essays on Western Writers and Environmental Literature
By Dana Phillips. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 300 pp. Cloth, $74.00; paper, $24.95.
By Ann Ronald. Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press. 2003. xviii, 248 pp. Paper, $21.95.
American Literature 76(2): 409-411 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-2-409 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 76(2): 413-421 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-2-413 [PDF]  

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