Articles

Laura Doyle

"A" for Atlantic: The Colonizing Force of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
American Literature 79(2): 243-273 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-001 [PDF]  

Naomi Greyser

Affective Geographies: Sojourner Truth's Narrative, Feminism, and the Ethical Bind of Sentimentalism
American Literature 79(2): 275-305 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-002 [PDF]  

June Hee Chung

Getting the Picture: American Corporate Advertising and the Rise of a Cosmopolitan Visual Culture in The Ambassadors
American Literature 79(2): 307-333 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-003 [PDF]  

Mikko Tuhkanen

"Out of Joint": Passing, Haunting, and the Time of Slavery in Hagar's Daughter
American Literature 79(2): 335-361 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-004 [PDF]  

Randall Fuller

Aesthetics, Politics, Homosexuality: F. O. Matthiessen and the Tragedy of the American Scholar
American Literature 79(2): 363-391 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-005 [PDF]  

Zachariah Pickard

The Morality of Aesthetic Action: Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and the Politics of Poetry
American Literature 79(2): 393-411 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-006 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Ivy Schweitzer

Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic; Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature
Drama, Theatre, and Identity in the American New Republic. By Jeffrey Richards. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. xi, 392 pp. $85.00.
Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature. By Milette Shamir. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. 282 pp. $55.00.
American Literature 79(2): 413-415 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-007 [PDF]  

Martha Nell Smith

Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading; Measures of Possibility: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts
Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading. By Virginia Jackson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2005. xvii, 298 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95.
Measures of Possibility: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts. By Domhnall Mitchell. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2005. xv, 425 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $29.95.
American Literature 79(2): 415-417 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-008 [PDF]  

Wendy Graham

Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James; Troubling Minds: The Cultural Politics of Genius in the United States, 1840-1890
Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James. By J. Hillis Miller. New York: Fordham Univ. Press. 2005. xiii, 350 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00.
Troubling Minds: The Cultural Politics of Genius in the United States, 1840-1890. By Gustavus Stadler. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. xxxii, 217 pp. Cloth, $70.50; paper, $23.50.
American Literature 79(2): 417-419 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-79-2-417 [PDF]  

Emily Klein

Women, Money, and the Law: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Gender, and the Courts; Belabored Professions: Narratives of African American Working Womanhood
Women, Money, and the Law: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Gender, and the Courts. By Joyce W. Warren. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2005. viii, 373 pp. $44.95.
Belabored Professions: Narratives of African American Working Womanhood. By Xiomara Santamarina. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2005. xiv, 222 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 79(2): 420-422 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-79-2-420 [PDF]  

Russ Castronovo

The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics; Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850-1920
The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics. By Philipp Schweighauser. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2006. viii, 262 pp. $59.95.
Looking into Walt Whitman: American Art, 1850-1920. By Ruth L. Bohan. University Park: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press. 2006. xiv, 261 pp. $50.00.
American Literature 79(2): 422-424 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-79-2-422 [PDF]  

John Lowe

Masculinist Impulses: Toomer, Hurston, Black Writing, and Modernity; Paternalism Incorporated: Fables of American Fatherhood, 1865-1940
Masculinist Impulses: Toomer, Hurston, Black Writing, and Modernity. By Nathan Grant. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2004. xi, 239 pp. $44.95.
Paternalism Incorporated: Fables of American Fatherhood, 1865-1940. By David Leverenz. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2003. x, 254 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 79(2): 424-426 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-79-2-424 [PDF]  

Dalia Kandiyoti

Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English; Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American Speech; The Language of Caribbean Poetry: Boundaries of Expression; Their Right to Speak: Women's Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates
Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English. By Alan Rosen. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2005. xiv, 248 pp. $45.00.
Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American Speech. By Lisa Cohen Minnick. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. xxi, 194 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $22.50.
The Language of Caribbean Poetry: Boundaries of Expression. By Lee M. Jenkins. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2004. x, 232 pp. $59.95.
Their Right to Speak: Women's Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates. By Alisse Portnoy. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2005. xiii, 290 pp. $49.95.
American Literature 79(2): 427-430 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-013 [PDF]  

Marissa López

Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire; The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel
Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire. By María DeGuzmán. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. xxxiii, 372 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00.
The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel. By Raymond Leslie Williams. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2003. xi, 266 pp. Paper, $22.95.
American Literature 79(2): 430-432 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-014 [PDF]  

Ian Finseth

Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars; Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American Fiction
Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars. By Betsy Erkkila. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. xii, 272 pp. $55.00.
Growing Up Ethnic: Nationalism and the Bildungsroman in African American and Jewish American Fiction. By Martin Japtok. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2005. x, 201 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 79(2): 433-435 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-015 [PDF]  

Brief Mention

Brief Mention
American Literature 79(2): 437-444 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-79-2-437 [PDF]  

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