Articles

Jonathan Auerbach

"Wonderful Apparatus," or Life of an American Fireman
American Literature 77(4): 669-698 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-4-669 [PDF]  

Christopher Hager

Hunger for the Literal: Writing and Industrial Change in Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons
American Literature 77(4): 699-728 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-4-699 [PDF]  

Ian Finseth

Evolution, Cosmopolitanism, and Emerson's Antislavery Politics
American Literature 77(4): 729-760 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-4-729 [PDF]  

Hildegard Hoeller

Racial Currency: Zora Neale Hurston's "The Gilded Six-Bits" and the Gold-Standard Debate
American Literature 77(4): 761-785 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-4-761 [PDF]  

Peter Kerry Powers

The Treacherous Body: Isolation, Confession, and Community in James Baldwin
American Literature 77(4): 787-813 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-4-787 [PDF]  

Victor Mendoza

A Queer Nomadology of Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters
American Literature 77(4): 815-845 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-4-815 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Ed White

The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity; Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity. By Ralph Bauer. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2003. xiii, 295 pp. $65.00; Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. By Philip Gould. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 258 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 77(4): 847-849 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-4-847 [PDF]  

Renée Bergland

Writing for Immortality: Women Writers and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America; The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880; Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America
Writing for Immortality: Women Writers and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America. By Anne E. Boyd. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2004. x, 305 pp. $55.00; The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880. By Candy Gunther Brown. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. xiv, 336 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95; Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America. By Patricia Okker. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2004. xii, 202 pp. $37.50.
American Literature 77(4): 850-852 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-4-850 [PDF]  

Carol Farley Kessler

Utopian Audiences: How Readers Locate Nowhere; Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia
Utopian Audiences: How Readers Locate Nowhere. By Kenneth M. Roemer. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2003. xiv, 295 pp. $39.95; Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia. By Sterling F. Delano. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2004. xvii, 428 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 77(4): 852-854 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-4-852 [PDF]  

John Whalen-Bridge

Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien; Hemingway's Theaters of Masculinity
Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien. By Alex Vernon. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. xi, 314 pp. $39.95; Hemingway's Theaters of Masculinity. By Thomas Strychacz. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2003. vii, 284 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 77(4): 854-856 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-4-854 [PDF]  

Carla Kaplan

No More Separate Spheres! A Next Wave American Studies Reader
No More Separate Spheres! A Next Wave American Studies Reader. Ed. Cathy N. Davidson and Jessamyn Hatcher. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2002. 439 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $21.95.
American Literature 77(4): 856-858 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-4-856 [PDF]  

Yoonmee Chang

Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech; Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and Jewish American Literature; Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique
Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech. By Patti Duncan. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. xvi, 274 pp. $34.95; Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and Jewish American Literature.By Judith Oster. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2003. xi, 283 pp. $47.50; Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique. By Kandice Chuh. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 215 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 77(4): 858-861 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-4-858 [PDF]  

Dwight A. McBride

Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775-1995
Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775-1995. By Maurice O. Wallace. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2002. xiii, 236. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 77(4): 861-862 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-4-861 [PDF]  

Scott Saul

Blows like a Horn: Beat Writing, Jazz, Style, and Markets in the Transformation of U.S. Culture; Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetry
Blows like a Horn: Beat Writing, Jazz, Style, and Markets in the Transformation of U.S. Culture. By Preston Whaley Jr. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2004. 260 pp. $29.95; Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetry. By T. J. Anderson III. Fayetteville: Univ. of Arkansas Press. 2004. xi, 217 pp. Paper, $19.95.
American Literature 77(4): 862-864 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-4-862 [PDF]  

Megan Sweeney

Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice; Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism, and Complicity in U.S. Literary Realism
Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice. By Michael Hames-García. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2004. lii, 352 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95; Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism, and Complicity in U.S. Literary Realism. By William M. Morgan. Lebanon: Univ. of New Hampshire Press. 2004. viii, 251 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 77(4): 864-867 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-4-864 [PDF]  

Bob Perelman

Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy; The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics
Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy. By Marjorie Perloff. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. xxxiv, 307 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $29.95; The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics. By Barrett Watten. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press. 2003. xxxii, 430 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $27.95.
American Literature 77(4): 867-869 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-4-867 [PDF]  

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revisioning and Editing for Book and Screen; Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries; Writing Machines; Cognitive Fictions
The Fluid Text: A Theory of Revisioning and Editing for Book and Screen. By John Bryant. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2002. x, 198 pp. Cloth, $55.50; paper, $20.95; Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries. By Loss Pequeño Glazier. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2002. xii, 213 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95; Writing Machines. By N. Katherine Hayles. With designer Anne Burdick. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2002. 144 pp. Paper, $17.95; Cognitive Fictions. By Joseph Tabbi. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2002. xxvii, 166 pp. Paper, $17.95.
American Literature 77(4): 869-872 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-4-869 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 77(4): 873-881 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-4-873 [PDF]  

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