Articles

Geoffrey Sanborn

Whence Come You, Queequeg?
American Literature 77(2): 227-257 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-227 [PDF]  

Clayton Marsh

Stealing Time: Poe's Confidence Men and the "Rush of the Age"
American Literature 77(2): 259-289 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-259 [PDF]  

Claudia Stokes

Copyrighting American History: International Copyright and the Periodization of the Nineteenth Century
American Literature 77(2): 291-317 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-291 [PDF]  

Kristin Boudreau

Elegies for the Haymarket Anarchists
American Literature 77(2): 319-347 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-319 [PDF]  

Christopher P. Wilson

Undercover: White Ethnicity and Police Exposé in the 1970s
American Literature 77(2): 349-377 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-349 [PDF]  

D. Quentin Miller

Deeper Blues, or the Posthuman Prometheus: Cybernetic Renewal and the Late-Twentieth-Century American Novel
American Literature 77(2): 379-407 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-379 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

John Ernest

White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour: William Brown's African and American Theater; Theatre, Society, and the Nation: Staging American Identities; The Federal Theatre Project: A Case Study
By Marvin McAllister. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2003. x, 239 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95.
By S. E. Wilmer. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. vii, 281 pp. $60.00.
By Barry B. Witham. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2003. xiii, 190 pp. $60.00.
American Literature 77(2): 409-411 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-409 [PDF]  

Timothy Sweet

Environmental Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Systems of Nature; Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement
By Andrew McMurry. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. xiii, 269 pp. $39.95.
By Daniel J. Philippon. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2004. xv, 373 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 77(2): 411-413 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-411 [PDF]  

Nina Baym

Emerson's Transcendental Etudes; The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe
By Stanley Cavell. Ed. David Justin Hodge. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 277 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper,$21.95.
By Scott Peeples. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House. 2004. xii, 199 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $55.00.
American Literature 77(2): 414-416 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-414 [PDF]  

Michael Robertson

Monumental Melville: The Formation of a Literary Career; So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death; To Walt Whitman, America
By Edgar A. Dryden. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 230 pp. $49.50.
By Harold Aspiz. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. xi, 294 pp. $42.50.
By Kenneth M. Price. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. ix, 182 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 77(2): 416-418 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-416 [PDF]  

Frederick Luis Aldama

History's Shadow: Native Americans and Historical Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century; Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest; Injun Joe's Ghost: The Indian Mixed-Blood in American Writing
By Steven Conn. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2004. xii, 276 pp. $35.00.
By Martin Padjet. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press. 2004. xiv, 250 pp. $37.95.
By Harry J. Brown. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2004. viii, 271 pp. $47.50.
American Literature 77(2): 418-421 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-418 [PDF]  

Ira Dworkin

Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey; Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture; Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era
By Wilson Jeremiah Moses. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xviii, 308 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95.
By Shawn Michelle Smith. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2004. xviii, 225 pp. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $21.95.
By Marlon Ross. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 463 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00.
American Literature 77(2): 421-424 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-421 [PDF]  

Eric Schocket

The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Guys like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics
By John D. Kerkering. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2003. xiii, 351 pp. $65.00.
By Michael Davidson. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. ix, 281 pp. Paper, $22.50.
American Literature 77(2): 424-426 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-424 [PDF]  

Dwight A. McBride

Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance; Cruising Modernism: Class and Sexuality in American Literature and Social Thought
By A. B. Christa Schwarz. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. 2003. x, 209 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $21.95.
By Michael Trask. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2003. viii, 222 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 77(2): 426-428 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-426 [PDF]  

Amanda Grzyb

Transformations of Domesticity in Modern Women's Writing: Homelessness at Home
By Thomas Foster. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. vi, 213 pp. $62.00.
American Literature 77(2): 428-429 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-428 [PDF]  

Jennifer Williams

Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism; Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (Un)becoming the Subject
By Jean Wyatt. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2004. x, 286 pp. Cloth, $71.50; paper, $23.95.
By Kevin Everod Quashie. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2004. x, 228 pp. Cloth, $62.00; paper, $22.95.
American Literature 77(2): 430-432 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-430 [PDF]  

Kendall Johnson

The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era; Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern
By George Yúdice. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. vii, 466 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95.
By Joel Pfister. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2004. xiv, 340 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95.
American Literature 77(2): 432-434 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-432 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 77(2): 435-448 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-435 [PDF]  

Announcements
American Literature 77(2): 449-450 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-2-449 [PDF]  

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