Articles

Jacob Rama Berman

The Barbarous Voice of Democracy: American Captivity in Barbary and the Multicultural Specter
American Literature 79(1): 1-27 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-069 [PDF]  

Gretchen Murphy

How the Irish Became Japanese: Winnifred Eaton's Racial Reconstructions in a Transnational Context
American Literature 79(1): 29-56 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-070 [PDF]  

Carrie Rohman

Revising the Human: Silence, Being, and the Question of the Animal in Nightwood
American Literature 79(1): 57-84 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-071 [PDF]  

Stephanie Li

Resistance, Silence, and Placées: Charles Bon's Octoroon Mistress and Louisa Picquet
American Literature 79(1): 85-112 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-072 [PDF]  

Marsha Bryant

Gwendolyn Brooks, Ebony, and Postwar Race Relations
American Literature 79(1): 113-141 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-073 [PDF]  

Lynn Keller

Resisting the Cultural "Steamroller": Susan Wheeler's Source Codes
American Literature 79(1): 143-175 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-074 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Laura Henigman

New England's Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion, 1620-1860
New England's Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion, 1620-1860. By John McWilliams. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 366 pp. $ 75.00.
American Literature 79(1): 177-178 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-075 [PDF]  

Timothy Sweet

American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World; John Burroughs and the Place of Nature; Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld
American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World. By Susan Scott Parrish. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2006. xii, 344 pp. $49.95.
John Burroughs and the Place of Nature. By James Perrin Warren. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2006. xiii, 266 pp. $ 39.95.
Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld. By Lee Rozelle. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2006. vii, 134 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 79(1): 179-181 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-076 [PDF]  

Elsa Nettels

Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America; Conscience and Purpose: Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather
Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America. By T. Gregory Garvey. Atlanta: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2006. xii, 263 pp. $ 39.95.
Conscience and Purpose: Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather. By Paul R. Petrie. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2005. xvii, 234 pp. $ 37.50.
American Literature 79(1): 181-183 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-077 [PDF]  

Ellen Weinauer

Writing Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau; Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature; Transatlantic Connections: Whitman U.S., Whitman U.K
Writing Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau. By Peter J. Bellis. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. vii, 221 pp. $ 39.95.
Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature. By Lance Newman. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. xvii, 255 pp. $ 69.95.
Transatlantic Connections: Whitman U.S., Whitman U.K. By M. Wynn Thomas. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2005. xvii, 289 pp. $ 39.95.
American Literature 79(1): 184-186 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-078 [PDF]  

Susan Kurjiaka

Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Making the "America of Art": Cultural Nationalism and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers
Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Cindy Weinstein. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. x, 243 pp. $ 80.00.
Making the "America of Art": Cultural Nationalism and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. By Naomi Z. Sofer. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2005. viii, 286 pp. $ 39.95.
American Literature 79(1): 186-188 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-079 [PDF]  

Patricia Kalayjian

Raising the Dust: The Literary Housekeeping of Mary Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895-1915
Raising the Dust: The Literary Housekeeping of Mary Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. By Beth Sutton-Ramspeck. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2004. xiii, 272 pp. Cloth, $55; paper, $24.95.
Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895-1915. By Martha H. Patterson. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2005. xii, 230 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 79(1): 189-191 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-080 [PDF]  

Charles Scruggs

The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s; The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity
The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s. By James Edward Smethurst. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. xv, 471 pp. $59.95.
The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature. By Michael Soto. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. 228 pp. $39.95.
Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity. By Karen Jackson Ford. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. 205 pp. $ 35.00.
American Literature 79(1): 191-193 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-081 [PDF]  

Shawn Salvant

Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives; Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery; Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery
Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives. By Jenny Sharpe. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2003. xxvi, 187 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00.
Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery. By Carolyn Vellenga Berman. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2006. xi, 240 pp. $39.95.
Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery. By DoVeanna S. Fulton. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2006. xvi, 164 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 79(1): 194-196 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-082 [PDF]  

Mendi Lewis Obadike

Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity; Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative
Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity. By Alexander G. Weheliye. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. xii, 286 pp. $22.95.
Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative. By Jurgen E. Grandt. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2004. xix, 160 pp. $21.95.
American Literature 79(1): 197-199 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-083 [PDF]  

Frederick Luis Aldama

Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity; Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000
Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity. By Martha J. Cutter. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2003.336 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50.
Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000. By Suzanne Bost. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2005. 280 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 79(1): 199-200 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-084 [PDF]  

Sean Metzger

Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture; Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War
Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture. By Tina Chen. Palo Alto: Stanford Univ. Press. 2005. xxvi, 247 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95.
Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War. By K. Scott Wong. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2005. 256 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 79(1): 201-203 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-085 [PDF]  

Betsy Klimasmith

Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature; Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women's Road Stories; Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City
Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature. By Jeffrey Myers. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2005. ix, 188 pp. $39.95.
Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women's Road Stories. By Deborah Paes de Barros. New York: Peter Lang. 2004. 208 pp. Paper, $39.95.
Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City. By Diane Chisholm. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2004. xvii, 353 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 79(1): 203-206 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-086 [PDF]  

Merry Ovnick

Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California; Reading the Trail: Exploring the Literature and Natural History of the California Crest
Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California. By Dydia DeLyser. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. xxiii, 256 pp. Cloth, $56.95; paper, $18.95.
Reading the Trail: Exploring the Literature and Natural History of the California Crest. By Corey Lee Lewis. Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press. 2005. xiv, 241 pp. Paper, $24.95.
American Literature 79(1): 206-208 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-087 [PDF]  

Dan Moos

Exploding the Empire: Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier; Spaces of the Mind: Narrative and Community in the American West
Exploding the Empire: Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier. By Sara L. Spurgeon. Texas A & M Univ. Press. 2005. 189 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95.
Spaces of the Mind: Narrative and Community in the American West. By Elaine A. Jahner. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2005. 192 pp. $49.95.
American Literature 79(1): 208-210 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-088 [PDF]  

Caroline Reitz

A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought; Paradigms of Paranoia: The Culture of Conspiracy in Contemporary American Fiction
A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought. By Stephen Kern. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2004. 584 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $22.95.
Paradigms of Paranoia: The Culture of Conspiracy in Contemporary American Fiction. By Samuel Chase Coale. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2005. 272 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 79(1): 210-212 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-089 [PDF]  

Caroline Levander

Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction; Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture; Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900; Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917
Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction. By Susan Honeyman. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2005. 184 pp. Cloth, $37.95; compact disk, $9.95.
Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture. By Karen Sánchez-Eppler. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. xxviii, 260 pp. $35.00.
Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900. By Jennifer Mason. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2005. 240 pp. $55.00.
Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917. By Angela Sorby. Hanover, N.H.: Univ. Press of New England. 2005. xlv, 232 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 79(1): 213-215 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-090 [PDF]  

Brian M. Reed

Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre: Bodies, Voices, Words; Ugly Feelings; A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry; Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation
Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre: Bodies, Voices, Words. By Julia A. Walker. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. xii, 300 pp. $75.00.
Ugly Feelings. By Sianne Ngai. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2005. 432 pp. $29.95.
A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. By Susan M. Schultz. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2005. viii, 248 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $36.00.
Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation. By Aldon Lynn Nielsen. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. 240 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $26.95.
American Literature 79(1): 216-219 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-091 [PDF]  

Alisse Portnoy

The Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communication; Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration; FDR's Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability; Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning
The Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communication. By Wayne C. Booth. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2004. xvi, 206 pp. Cloth, $57.95; paper, $19.95.
Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration. By James Phelan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2005. xiv, 236 pp. Cloth, $45; paper, $19.95.
FDR's Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability. By Davis W. Houck and Amos Kiewe. College Station: Texas A & M Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 141 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $14.95.
Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning. By Edward Schiappa. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2003. xvi, 213 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $27.00.
American Literature 79(1): 219-222 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-092 [PDF]  

Stacey Peebles

Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots; The Edge of Modernism: American Poetry and the Traumatic Past
Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. By Min Hyoung Song. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. xii, 285 pp. Paper, $22.95.
The Edge of Modernism: American Poetry and the Traumatic Past. By Walter Kalaidjian. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2006. 239 pp. $50.00.
American Literature 79(1): 223-225 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-093 [PDF]  

Caleb Smith

Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime; Fitting Sentences: Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Prison Narratives
Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime. By Dylan Rodriguez. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. 322 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95.
Fitting Sentences: Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Prison Narratives. By Jason Haslam. Toronto, Canada: Univ. of Toronto Press. 2005. x, 264 pp. $60.00.
American Literature 79(1): 225-227 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-094 [PDF]  

Christopher Nealon

Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. By Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 195 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 79(1): 227-228 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-095 [PDF]  

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American Literature 79(1): 229-240 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-79-1-229 [PDF]  

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