Articles

Eric A. Wolfe

Ventriloquizing Nation: Voice, Identity, and Radical Democracy in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland
American Literature 78(3): 431-457 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-021 [PDF]  

John Ernest

The Floating Icon and the Fluid Text: Rereading the Narrative of Sojourner Truth
American Literature 78(3): 459-486 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-022 [PDF]  

Denise Cruz

Reconsidering McTeague's "Mark" and "Mac": Intersections of U.S. Naturalism, Imperial Masculinities, and Desire between Men
American Literature 78(3): 487-517 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-023 [PDF]  

Jennifer L. Fleissner

The Biological Clock: Edith Wharton, Naturalism, and the Temporality of Womanhood
American Literature 78(3): 519-548 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-024 [PDF]  

Jeff Allred

From Eye to We: Richard Wright's 12 Million Black Voices, Documentary, and Pedagogy
American Literature 78(3): 549-583 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-025 [PDF]  

Holly Flint

Toni Morrison's Paradise: Black Cultural Citizenship in the American Empire
American Literature 78(3): 585-612 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-026 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Augusta Rohrbach

"A Hideous Monster of the Mind": American Race Theory in the Early Republic; "Miscegenation": Making Race in America
"A Hideous Monster of the Mind": American Race Theory in the Early Republic. By Bruce Dain. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2002. x, 321 pp. $29.95.
"Miscegenation": Making Race in America. By Elise Lemire. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. 204 pp. $37.50.
American Literature 78(3): 613-615 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-027 [PDF]  

Emory Elliott

Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America, expanded edition
Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America, expanded edition. By Cathy N. Davidson. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2004. xv, 458 pp. Paper, $24.95.
American Literature 78(3): 615-617 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-028 [PDF]  

Lauren Coats

Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination; Abolition's Public Sphere; Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937
Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination. By Bridget T. Heneghan. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2003. xxvii, 204 pp. $45.00.
Abolition's Public Sphere. By Robert Fanuzzi. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2003. xl, 331 pp. Cloth, $63.95; paper, $22.95.
Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937. By Sarah E. Gardner. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. x, 341 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 78(3): 617-619 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-029 [PDF]  

Reginald Dyck

A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago; Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919
A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago. By Richard Christiansen. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press. 2004. xvii, 317 pp. $29.95.
Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919. By Timothy B. Spears. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. xxiii, 322 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00.
American Literature 78(3): 620-622 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-030 [PDF]  

Jeffory A. Clymer

Rewriting White: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century America; The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America
Rewriting White: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century America. By Todd Vogel. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2004. x, 194 pp. Cloth, $62.00; paper, $22.95.
The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America. By Amy Schrager Lang. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2003. ix, 152 pp. $52.50.
American Literature 78(3): 622-624 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-031 [PDF]  

Claudia Sadowski-Smith

Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building; Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere; Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire
Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building. By Debra J. Rosenthal. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. 182 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere. By Anna Brickhouse. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xi, 329 pp. $70.00.
Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire. By Gretchen Murphy. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $21.95.
American Literature 78(3): 624-627 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-032 [PDF]  

Riché Richardson

Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953
Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. By Daylanne K. English. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. xii, 267 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95.
Rethinking Social Realism: African American Art and Literature, 1930-1953. By Stacy I. Morgan. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. x, 356 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 78(3): 627-629 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-033 [PDF]  

Marianna Torgovnick

Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word
Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word. By Michael North. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2005. ix, 255 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 78(3): 629-631 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-034 [PDF]  

Bonnie Gaarden

The Dime Novel in Children's Literature; The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer Syndicate
The Dime Novel in Children's Literature. By Vicki Anderson. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2005. vi, 268 pp. Paper, $35.00.
The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer Syndicate. By Marilyn S. Greenwald. Athens, Ohio: Ohio Univ. Press. 2004. xiv, 310 pp. $32.95.
American Literature 78(3): 631-633 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-035 [PDF]  

Victoria Ramirez

Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties; The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures
Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties. By Suzanne W. Jones. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 346 pp. $45.95.
The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures. By Jeff Karem. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2004. vii, 247 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $18.50.
American Literature 78(3): 633-635 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-036 [PDF]  

Erin Gentry

The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film; Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic
The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film. By Jack Morgan. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2002. xi, 263 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $25.00.
Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic. By Justin D. Edwards. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2003. xxxiii, 145 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 78(3): 635-637 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-037 [PDF]  

Michelle Stephens

Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas; Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s; Confluences: Postcolonialism, African American Literary Studies, and the Black Atlantic
Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas. By Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. viii, 291 pp. $59.95.
Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s. By Sarah Meer. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2005. viii, 332 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $24.95.
Confluences: Postcolonialism, African American Literary Studies, and the Black Atlantic. By John Cullen Gruesser. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2005. xi, 177 pp. $37.95.
American Literature 78(3): 638-640 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-038 [PDF]  

Susan Belasco

Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition; Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery
Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition. By Cheryl A. Wall. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2005. xii, 309 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery.By Arlene R. Keizer. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2004. xiii, 200 pp. Cloth, $47.50; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 78(3): 640-642 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-039 [PDF]  

Eden Osucha

Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism; Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity
Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism. By Madhu Dubey. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. ix, 284 pp. Paper, $22.00.
Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity. By E. Patrick Johnson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xiii, 365 pp. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $23.95.
American Literature 78(3): 643-645 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-040 [PDF]  

Anita Helle

The Poetics of Enclosure: American Women Poets from Dickinson to Dove; Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson: The Feminist Poetics of Self-Restraint; Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou
The Poetics of Enclosure: American Women Poets from Dickinson to Dove. By Lesley Wheeler. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press. 2002. x, 2001 pp. $27.00.
Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson: The Feminist Poetics of Self-Restraint. By Kirstin Hotelling Zona. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2002. xi, 187 pp. $55.00.
Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou. By Zofia Burr. Champaign: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2002. xii, 232 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 78(3): 645-647 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-041 [PDF]  

Dana Phillips

Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present; Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism
Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present. By John Gatta. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 291 pp. Paper, $24.95.
Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism. By David M. Robinson. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2004. xiv, 231 pp. $24.95.
American Literature 78(3): 648-650 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-042 [PDF]  

Rebecca Wanzo

The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects; The End of Dissatisfaction? Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment
The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects. By Charles Altieri. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2003. x, 299 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $22.50.
The End of Dissatisfaction? Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment. By Todd McGowan. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2003. ix, 238 pp. Cloth $65.50; paper, $21.95.
American Literature 78(3): 650-652 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-043 [PDF]  

Kinohi Nishikawa

Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880-1980; Muse in the Machine: American Fiction and Mass Publicity; Reading Oprah: How Oprah's Book Club Changed the Way America Reads
Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880-1980. By Loren Glass. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 242 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00.
Muse in the Machine: American Fiction and Mass Publicity. By Mark Conroy. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2004. viii, 232 pp. $42.95.
Reading Oprah: How Oprah's Book Club Changed the Way America Reads.By Cecilia Konchar Farr. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2005. xiv, 164 pp. Cloth, $54.50; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 78(3): 652-654 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-044 [PDF]  

Celeste Langan

Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory; Bending over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, and Other Difficult Positions
Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory. By Cary Wolfe. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. xv, 237 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $20.00.
Bending over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, and Other Difficult Positions. By Lennard J. Davis. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2002. xii, 200 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $21.00.
American Literature 78(3): 655-657 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-045 [PDF]  

Eric Solomon

John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War; The War Complex: World War in Our Time
John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War. By Franny Nudelman. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. x, 226 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
The War Complex: World War in Our Time. By Marianna Torgovnick. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. xxi, 209 pp. $25.00.
American Literature 78(3): 657-659 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-046 [PDF]  

Bernice L. Hausman

Evolution and "the Sex Problem": American Narratives during the Eclipse of Darwinism; Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America; Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine
Evolution and "the Sex Problem": American Narratives during the Eclipse of Darwinism. By Bert Bender. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2004. xvi, 389 pp. $59.95.
Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America. By Stephanie P. Browner. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. 304 pp. $49.95.
Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine. By Susan Merrill Squier. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. xvi, 350 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95.
American Literature 78(3): 659-662 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-047 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 78(3): 663-673 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-3-663 [PDF]  

Announcement
American Literature 78(3): 675 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-3-675 [PDF]  

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