Margo Crawford

Preface: Erasing the Commas: RaceGenderClassSexualityRegion
American Literature 77(1): 1-5 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-1 [PDF]  

Articles

Riché Richardson

Charles Fuller's Southern Specter and the Geography of Black Masculinity
American Literature 77(1): 7-32 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-7 [PDF]  

Victoria Olwell

"It Spoke Itself": Women's Genius and Eccentric Politics
American Literature 77(1): 33-63 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-33 [PDF]  

Deborah Mix

Tender Revisions: Harryette Mullen's Trimmings and S^*PeRM^**K^*T
American Literature 77(1): 65-92 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-65 [PDF]  

Janet Dean

Nameless Outrages: Narrative Authority, Rape Rhetoric, and the Dakota Conflict of 1862
American Literature 77(1): 93-122 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-93 [PDF]  

Elizabeth Fekete Trubey

Emancipating the Lettered Slave: Sentiment and Slavery in Augusta Evans's St. Elmo
American Literature 77(1): 123-150 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-123 [PDF]  

Xiomara Santamarina

Black Hairdresser and Social Critic: Eliza Potter and the Labors of Femininity
American Literature 77(1): 151-177 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-151 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Russ Castronovo

Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898; The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America
By Elizabeth D. Samet. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 273 pp. $55.00.
By David Kazanjian. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2003. xii, 311 pp. Cloth, $71.95; paper, $25.95.
American Literature 77(1): 179-181 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-179 [PDF]  

Eric Gary Anderson

Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827-1863
By Maureen Konkle. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. ix, 367 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 77(1): 181-183 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-181 [PDF]  

Jason Stacy

The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman: The Journalism, Volume II: 1846-1848
Ed. Herbert Bergman, Douglas Noverr, and Edward Recchia. New York: Peter Lang. 2003. xxviii, 501 pp. $59.95.
American Literature 77(1): 183-184 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-183 [PDF]  

Richard S. Lowry

Making Girls into Women: American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity; From Girl to Woman: American Women's Coming-of-Age Narratives
By Kathryn R. Kent. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xi, 355 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $21.95.
By Christy Rishoi. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2003. xi, 202 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $20.95.
American Literature 77(1): 184-186 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-184 [PDF]  

Victor Strandberg

Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain's Final Years
By Karen Lystra. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2004. xxi, 342 pp. $27.50.
American Literature 77(1): 186-187 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-186 [PDF]  

John Dudley

Henry James and Queer Modernity; Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity
By Eric Haralson. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2003. xiv, 265 pp. $60.00.
By Leland S. Person. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. 207 pp. $38.50.
American Literature 77(1): 188-189 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-188 [PDF]  

Jeffrey W. Miller

Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult; Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro; Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South
By Susan K. Gillman. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. xi, 245 pp. Paper, $19.00.
By Barbara Foley. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2003. x, 313 pp. $44.95.
By Tara McPherson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 318 pp. Paper, $21.95.
American Literature 77(1): 190-191 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-190 [PDF]  

David Bergman

Would Poetry Disappear? American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity; Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada
By John Timberman Newcomb. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2004. xxix, 296 pp. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $22.95; CD, $9.95.
By Amelia Jones. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2004. ix, 334 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 77(1): 192-194 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-192 [PDF]  

Jason Gary Horn

Faulkner and the Politics of Reading; Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's "Go Down, Moses"
By Karl F. Zender. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2002. xviii, 179 pp. $29.95.
By Thadious M. Davis. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xi, 339 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $21.95.
American Literature 77(1): 194-196 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-194 [PDF]  

D. Quentin Miller

On the Lam: Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover's America; Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century
By William Beverly. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2003. xvii, 236 pp. $40.00.
By John Houchin. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2003. ix, 332 pp. $60.00.
American Literature 77(1): 196-198 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-196 [PDF]  

Peter Hays

A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater; Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity
By David Savran. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2003. xii, 234 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.95.
By Shannon Jackson. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xi, 254 pp. Cloth, $55; paper, $24.00.
American Literature 77(1): 198-200 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-198 [PDF]  

Barbara Ryan

From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749-1826; Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place
By Thomas Hallock. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2003. xix, 289 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95.
By Rick Van Noy. Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press. 2003. xxii, 220 pp. Cloth, $44.95; paper, $21.95.
American Literature 77(1): 200-202 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-200 [PDF]  

Blake Allmendinger

Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship; In the Work of Their Hands Is Their Prayer: Cultural Narrative and Redemption on the American Frontiers, 1830-1930
By Nathaniel Lewis. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2003. x, 297 pp. $49.95.
By Joel Daehnke. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2003. 299 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $26.95.
American Literature 77(1): 202-203 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-202 [PDF]  

Scott Andrews

Toward a Native American Critical Theory; Gambling and Survival in Native North America
By Elvira Pulitano. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2003. x, 233 pp. $50.00.
By Paul Pasquaretta. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2003. xviii, 202 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 77(1): 204-205 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-204 [PDF]  

Susan Fraiman

Things; A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships between Women
Ed. Bill Brown. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2004. 471 pp. Cloth,$49.50; paper, $25.00.
By Suzanne Juhasz. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2003. x, 247 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.00.
American Literature 77(1): 206-208 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-206 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 77(1): 209-224 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-209 [PDF]  

Announcements
American Literature 77(1): 225 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-1-225 [PDF]  

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