Jay B. Hubbell

FOREWORD
American Literature 76(4): 638 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-638 [PDF]  

Articles

Houston A. Baker, Jr. and Priscilla Wald

Anniversaries and "Whispering Ambitions": American Literature at 75
American Literature 76(4): 639-652 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-639 [PDF]  

Louis J. Budd

On to the Centennial
American Literature 76(4): 653-663 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-653 [PDF]  

Cathy N. Davidson

"No! In Thunder"
American Literature 76(4): 665-675 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-665 [PDF]  

Michael Moon

Turning from the National to the Multilingual
American Literature 76(4): 677-685 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-677 [PDF]  

Edward Cahill

Federalist Criticism and the Fate of Genius
American Literature 76(4): 687-717 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-687 [PDF]  

David Anthony

Banking on Emotion: Financial Panic and the Logic of Male Submission in the Jacksonian Gothic
American Literature 76(4): 719-747 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-719 [PDF]  

Heather Roberts

"The Public Heart": Urban Life and the Politics of Sympathy in Lydia Maria Child's Letters from New York
American Literature 76(4): 749-775 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-749 [PDF]  

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

The Cultural Logic of Euthanasia: "Sad Fancyings" in Herman Melville's "Bartleby"
American Literature 76(4): 777-806 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-777 [PDF]  

Nicola Nixon

"Prismatic and Profitable": Commerce and the Corporate Person in James's "The Jolly Corner"
American Literature 76(4): 807-831 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-807 [PDF]  

Cherene Sherrard-Johnson

"A Plea For Color": Nella Larsen's Iconography of the Mulatta
American Literature 76(4): 833-869 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-833 [PDF]  

Review Essay

Claire F. Fox

Comparative Literary Studies of the Americas
American Literature 76(4): 871-886 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-871 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Adam Gussow

Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories; Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany
By Jean M. Humez. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 2003. xii, 471 pp. $45.00.
By Tunde Adeleke. Jackson: Univ. of Mississippi Press. 2003. xxxiii, 274 pp. $42.00.
American Literature 76(4): 887-889 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-887 [PDF]  

Kristin Boudreau

Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War; Mark Twain and Medicine: "Any Mummery Will Cure"
By Lisa A. Long. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. 344 pp. $49.95.
By K. Patrick Ober. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2003. xix, 362 pp. $47.50.
American Literature 76(4): 889-891 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-889 [PDF]  

Matt Cohen and Melinda DiStefano

Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States; Poets in the Public Sphere: The Emancipatory Project of American Women's Poetry, 1800-1900
By Janet Carey Eldred and Peter Mortensen. Pittsburgh, Penn.: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press. 2002. xi, 279 pp. $34.95.
By Paula Bernat Bennett. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2003. xvi, 264 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.50.
American Literature 76(4): 891-894 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-891 [PDF]  

Sandra Zagarell

An American Colony: Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture; Writing out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture; Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary Region
By Edward Watts. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2002. xxv, 285 pp. $55.00.
By Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2003. 422 pp. $44.95.
By Audrey Goodman. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2002. xxix, 224 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 76(4): 894-897 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-894 [PDF]  

Anna Brickhouse

Readings at the Edge of Literature; The Writing of America: Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present
By Myra Jehlen. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2002. 246 pp. Cloth, $52.00; paper, $19.00.
By Geoff Ward. Cambridge, Eng.: Polity Press. 2002. vii, 235 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $14.99.
American Literature 76(4): 897-899 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-897 [PDF]  

Anne Raine

Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology; This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry
By Michael A. Bryson. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2002. xvii, 228 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $16.50.
By Jed Rasula. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2002. xv, 259 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 76(4): 899-901 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-899 [PDF]  

James Dawes

America's Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word; Crimes of Art and Terror
By Jeffory A. Clymer. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2003. xii, 277 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95.
By Frank Lentricchia and Jody McAuliffe. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. 187 pp. $22.50; paper, $16.00.
American Literature 76(4): 901-903 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-901 [PDF]  

Announcement
American Literature 76(4): 905 (2004); DOI:10.1215/00029831-76-4-905 [PDF]  

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