Articles

Christopher Castiglia and Russ Castronovo

A "Hive of Subtlety": Aesthetics and the End(s) of Cultural Studies
American Literature 76(3): 423-435 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-423 [PDF]  

James Dawes

Fictional Feeling: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and the American Gothic
American Literature 76(3): 437-466 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-437 [PDF]  

Paul Gilmore

Romantic Electricity, or the Materiality of Aesthetics
American Literature 76(3): 467-494 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-467 [PDF]  

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

Sentimental Aesthetics
American Literature 76(3): 495-523 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-495 [PDF]  

Wai Chee Dimock

Aesthetics at the Limits of the Nation: Kant, Pound, and the Saturday Review
American Literature 76(3): 525-547 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-525 [PDF]  

Thomas H. Kane

Mourning the Promised Land: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Automortography and the National Civil Rights Museum
American Literature 76(3): 549-577 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-549 [PDF]  

Christopher Nealon

Camp Messianism, or, the Hopes of Poetry in Late-Late Capitalism
American Literature 76(3): 579-602 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-579 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Joanne van der Woude

Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650-1800; Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature
By Ruth H. Bloch. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2003. x, 225 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $21.95.
By Paul Downes. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. xii, 239 pp. $55.00.
American Literature 76(3): 603-605 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-603 [PDF]  

Monique Allewaert

The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860; The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II
By Linda M. Grasso. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2002. xi, 249 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95.
By James Dawes. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2002. viii, 308 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 76(3): 605-607 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-605 [PDF]  

Crystal S. Anderson

Caribbean Autobiography: Cultural Identity and Self-Representation; Scarring the Black Body: Race and Representation in African American Literature; Voices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creation
By Sandra Pouchet Paquet. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 2002. xii, 345 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95.
By Carol E. Henderson. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2002. xiii, 184 pp. $32.50.
By Sterling Lecater Bland Jr. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2002. xviii, 184 pp. Cloth, $73.95; paper, $23.95.
American Literature 76(3): 608-610 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-608 [PDF]  

Vivian R. Pollak

Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation; Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority
By Jay Grossman. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 273 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95.
By Mark Maslan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 221 pp. $41.95.
American Literature 76(3): 610-612 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-610 [PDF]  

Alex Feerst

Civil Wars: American Novelists and Manners, 1880-1940; Social Reform, Taste, and the Construction of Virtue in American Literature, 1870-1910
By Susan Goodman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2003. xvii, 198 pp. $40.00.
By Janice H. Koistinen-Harris. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen. 2002. iii, 190 pp. $109.95.
American Literature 76(3): 612-615 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-612 [PDF]  

Eric Solomon

War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism; The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture
By John Seelye. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2003. xv, 341 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $24.95.
By Amy Kaplan. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2003. 260 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 76(3): 615-617 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-615 [PDF]  

Melody Graulich

West of Emerson: The Design of Manifest Destiny; Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West
By Kris Fresonke. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2003. xii, 201 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
By William R. Handley. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. xi, 261 pp. $60.00.
American Literature 76(3): 617-619 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-617 [PDF]  

Seung Hye Suh

Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961; Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism
By Christina Klein. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2003. xiv, 316 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $21.95.
By Mari Yoshihara. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2003. x, 242 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 76(3): 619-621 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-619 [PDF]  

Marta L. Werner

A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature; Surface and Depth: The Quest for Legibility in American Culture
By Bill Brown. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. xii, 245 pp. $32.00.
By Michael T. Gilmore. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2003. xiv, 217 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 76(3): 622-624 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-622 [PDF]  

Jeffory A. Clymer

Sexual Violence and American Manhood; Male Sexuality under Surveillance: The Office in American Literature
By T. Walter Herbert. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2002. 256 pp. $27.95.
By Graham Thompson. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2003. xxi, 248 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 76(3): 624-626 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-624 [PDF]  

Victoria Ramirez

Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning; Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web
By Christian Moraru. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2001. xviii, 230 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $19.95.
By Jerome McGann. New York: Palgrave. 2001. xv, 272 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 76(3): 626-628 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-626 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 76(3): 629-636 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-629 [PDF]  

Announcements
American Literature 76(3): 637-638 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-3-637 [PDF]  

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