Articles

Trish Loughran

Disseminating Common Sense: Thomas Paine and the Problem of the Early National Bestseller
American Literature 78(1): 1-28 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-1-1 [PDF]  

Ayse Çelikkol

The Morgesons, Aesthetic Predicaments, and the Competitive Logic of the Market Economy
American Literature 78(1): 29-57 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-1-29 [PDF]  

Emily Satterwhite

Reading Craddock, Reading Murfree: Local Color, Authenticity, and Geographies of Reception
American Literature 78(1): 59-88 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-1-59 [PDF]  

William Scott

Material Resistance and the Agency of the Body in Ann Petry's The Street
American Literature 78(1): 89-116 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-1-89 [PDF]  

Meg Wesling

The Opacity of Everyday Life: Segregation and the Iconicity of Uplift in The Street
American Literature 78(1): 117-140 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-1-117 [PDF]  

Christopher Douglas

What The Bluest Eye Knows about Them: Culture, Race, Identity
American Literature 78(1): 141-168 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-1-141 [PDF]  

Review Essay

Heather Russell Andrade

Poetry, Prose, and Politics: Perspectives on Works by Haki Madhubuti
American Literature 78(1): 169-178 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-1-169 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Brooke Hopkins

John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights.
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. By David S. Reynolds. New York: Knopf. 2005. x, 578 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 78(1): 179-180 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-1-179 [PDF]  

Gretchen Murphy

Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania; Manifest and Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century United States.
Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania. By Scott Trafton. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2004. xix, 384 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95.
Manifest and Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century United States. By Stephanie LeMenager. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2004. viii, 285 pp. $50.00.
American Literature 78(1): 180-182 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-1-180 [PDF]  

Carolyn Sorisio

From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry; Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on Reading and Writing in the Nineteenth Century.
From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry. By Mary Loeffelholz. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2004. xi, 275 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95.
Managing Literacy, Mothering America: Women's Narratives on Reading and Writing in the Nineteenth Century. By Sarah Robbins. Pittsburgh.: Univ. of Pittsburg Press. 2004. ix, 326 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 78(1): 182-185 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-1-182 [PDF]  

Susan K. Harris

Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America; Executing Race: Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law.
Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America. By Alison Piepmeier. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. xi, 278 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
Executing Race: Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law. By Sharon M. Harris. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2005. x, 240 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $23.95. Compact Disk, $9.95.
American Literature 78(1): 185-187 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-1-185 [PDF]  

Hildegard Hoeller

A Man's Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism; Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism.
A Man's Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism. By John Dudley. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. viii, 222 pp. $35.00.
Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism. By Jennifer L. Fleissner. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2004. xiv, 338 pp. Paper, $25.00.
American Literature 78(1): 187-189 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-1-187 [PDF]  

Vincent Fitzpatrick

The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser.
The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser. By Jerome Loving. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2005. xiii, 480 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 78(1): 189-190 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-1-189 [PDF]  

Raphael Allison

Emancipating Pragmatism: Emerson, Jazz, and Experimental Writing.
Emancipating Pragmatism: Emerson, Jazz, and Experimental Writing. By Michael Magee. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. xii, 247 pp. Paper, $27.50.
American Literature 78(1): 190-192 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-1-190 [PDF]  

Crystal Parikh

The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean: A Critical Study of English-Language Works since 1950; The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives; America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945.
The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean: A Critical Study of English-Language Works since 1950. By Mitali P. Wong and Zia Hasan. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2004. ix, 142 pp. Paper, $35.00.
The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives. By Eleanor Ty. Toronto, Ont.: Univ. of Toronto Press. 2004. xv, 227 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $24.95.
America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945. By Colleen Lye. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2005. x, 342 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $21.95.
American Literature 78(1): 192-194 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-1-192 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 78(1): 195-203 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-1-195 [PDF]  

Announcements
American Literature 78(1): 205 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-1-205 [PDF]  

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