Articles

Caleb Smith

Emerson and Incarceration
American Literature 78(2): 207-234 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-001 [PDF]  

Travis M. Foster

Matthiessen's Public Privates: Homosexual Expression and the Aesthetics of Sexual Inversion
American Literature 78(2): 235-262 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-002 [PDF]  

Elisabeth Ceppi

Invisible Labor: Puritan Servitude and the Demonic Possession of Elizabeth Knapp
American Literature 78(2): 263-292 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-003 [PDF]  

Greg Forter

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Modernist Studies, and the Fin-de-Siècle Crisis in Masculinity
American Literature 78(2): 293-323 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-004 [PDF]  

Andrea L. Hibbard and John T. Parry

Law, Seduction, and the Sentimental Heroine: The Case of Amelia Norman
American Literature 78(2): 325-355 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-005 [PDF]  

Laura Lomas

"The War Cut Out My Tongue": Domestic Violence, Foreign Wars, and Translation in Demetria Martínez
American Literature 78(2): 357-387 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-006 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

John M. Freiermuth

Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations; Trafficking Subjects: The Politics of Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America
Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations. Cheryl J. Fish. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2004. xiii, 183 pp. $59.95.
Trafficking Subjects: The Politics of Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America. By Mark Simpson. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. xxxi, 193 pp. Cloth, $56.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 78(2): 389-391 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-007 [PDF]  

Jené Schoenfeld

American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon; The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South
American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon. By Anthony Slide. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky. 2004. x, 264 pp. $35.00.
The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South. By Thomas Dixon. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky. 2004. xxx, 316 pp. Paper, $24.95.
American Literature 78(2): 391-393 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-008 [PDF]  

James Dawes

A Forgetful Nation: On Integration and Cultural Identity in the United States; The Languages of Difference: American Writers and Anthropologists Reconfigure the Primitive, 1878-1940
A Forgetful Nation: On Integration and Cultural Identity in the United States. By Ali Behdad. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. xvii, 212 pp. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $21.95.
The Languages of Difference: American Writers and Anthropologists Reconfigure the Primitive, 1878-1940. By Ronald E. Martin. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press; Cranbury, N.J.: Associated Univ. Presses. 2005. 280 pp. $53.00.
American Literature 78(2): 393-394 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-009 [PDF]  

Barton Keeton

Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood; Cowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and U.S. History
Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood. Andrew Brodie Smith. Boulder: Univ. Press of Colorado. 2003. viii, 230 pp. $34.95.
Cowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and U.S. History. Stanley Corkin. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. 2004. viii, 273 pp. Cloth, $69.50; paper, $23.95.
American Literature 78(2): 395-397 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-010 [PDF]  

Juliana Spahr

Mastery's End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry
Mastery's End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry. By Jeffrey Gray. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2005. xiv, 288 pp. $44.95.
American Literature 78(2): 397-398 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-011 [PDF]  

Leonard Cassuto

To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel; Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930
To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel. By Jeff Abernathy. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. xii, 240 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95.
Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930. By Michele Birnbaum. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2003. x, 195 pp. $60.00.
American Literature 78(2): 398-400 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-012 [PDF]  

Adam Gussow

Lying Up a Nation: Race and Black Music; Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties
Lying Up a Nation: Race and Black Music. By Ronald Radano. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. xix, 417 pp. Paper, $27.50.
Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties. By Scott Saul. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2003. xiv, 394 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 78(2): 400-402 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-013 [PDF]  

Brooke Horvath

Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry; Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry
Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry. By Jed Rasula. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. x, 311 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $29.95.
Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry. By Peter Middleton. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2005. xviii, 241 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $29.95.
American Literature 78(2): 402-404 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-014 [PDF]  

George Uba

Afro-Orientalism; Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels; Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Miscegenation
Afro-Orientalism. By Bill V. Mullen. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2004. xliv, 240 pp. Cloth, $56.95; paper, $18.95.
Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels. By Jennifer Ann Ho. New York: Routledge. 2005. 202 pp. $75.00.
Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Miscegenation. By Susan Koshy. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2004. x, 208 pp. Paper, $19.95.
American Literature 78(2): 405-407 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-015 [PDF]  

Alex Feerst

Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions; Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalism
Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions. By A. Robert Lee. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, with University of Edinburgh Press. 2003. x, 307 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95.
Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalism. By James Kyung-Jin Lee. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2004. xxx, 254 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 78(2): 408-409 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-016 [PDF]  

Nick Bromell

Exposés and Excess: Muckraking in America, 1900/2000
Exposés and Excess: Muckraking in America, 1900/2000. By Cecilia Tichi. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. 234 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 78(2): 409-411 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-017 [PDF]  

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse
Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse. By David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2001. xvii, 211 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 78(2): 411-412 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-018 [PDF]  

Joseph Helminski

Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literary Anthologies; Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861; Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America
Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literary Anthologies. By Joseph Csicsila. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. xx, 262 pp. $38.50.
Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861. By Carl Ostrowski. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2004. x, 261 pp. $39.95.
Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America. By Margaret Reid. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2004. xxxii, 259 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $22.95.
American Literature 78(2): 413-415 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-019 [PDF]  

Christopher Newfield

Modern Women, Modern Work: Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950; The Business of America: The Cultural Production of a Post-War Nation
Modern Women, Modern Work: Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950. By Francesca Sawaya. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. 198 pp. $42.50.
The Business of America: The Cultural Production of a Post-War Nation. By Graham Thompson. London: Pluto. 2004. ix, 189 pp. Paper, $24.95.
American Literature 78(2): 415-418 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-020 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 78(2): 419-428 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-2-419 [PDF]  

Announcement
American Literature 78(2): 429 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-2-429 [PDF]  

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