Articles

Birgit Brander Rasmussen

Negotiating Peace, Negotiating Literacies: A French-Iroquois Encounter and the Making of Early American Literature
American Literature 79(3): 445-473 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-016 [PDF]  

Stephen Germic

Land Claims, Natives, and Nativism: Susan Fenimore Cooper's Fealty to Place
American Literature 79(3): 475-500 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-017 [PDF]  

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Queer Haunting Spaces: Madeline Yale Wynne's "The Little Room" and Elia Wilkinson Peattie's "The House That Was Not"
American Literature 79(3): 501-525 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-018 [PDF]  

John Marsh

A Lost Art of Work: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems
American Literature 79(3): 527-551 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-019 [PDF]  

Barbara Ryan

"Rubbed and Polished": Reflecting on Zora Neale Hurston's "The Conscience of the Court"
American Literature 79(3): 553-575 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-020 [PDF]  

Matt Bell

Black Ground, Gay Figure: Working through Another Country, Black Power, and Gay Liberation
American Literature 79(3): 577-603 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-021 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Duncan Faherty

Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America; The Backcountry and the City: Colonization and Conflict in Early America
Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America. By Jennifer J. Baker. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2005. x, 218 pp. $50.00.
The Backcountry and the City: Colonization and Conflict in Early America. By Ed White. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. xix, 236 pp. Cloth, $69.00; paper, $23.00.
American Literature 79(3): 605-607 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-022 [PDF]  

Alisha Gaines

Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights; New Voices on the Harlem Renaissance: Essays on Race, Gender, and Literary Discourse
Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights. By Keith D. Leonard. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2006. ix, 283 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.50.
New Voices on the Harlem Renaissance: Essays on Race, Gender, and Literary Discourse. Ed. Paula C. Barnes and Australia Tarver. Madison, N.J.: Farleigh Dickinson Univ. Press. 2006. 300 pp. $52.50.
American Literature 79(3): 607-609 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-023 [PDF]  

Shelley Streeby

Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820-1865; Underwriting: The Poetics of Insurance in America, 1722-1872; Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, D.C.
Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820-1865. By Eric J. Sundquist. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2006. 254 pp. Paper, $20.00.
Underwriting: The Poetics of Insurance in America, 1722-1872. By Eric Wertheimer. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2006. 187 pp. $50.00.
Capital Speculations: Writing and Building Washington, D.C. By Sarah Luria. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. 2005. 196 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $26.00.
American Literature 79(3): 610-612 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-024 [PDF]  

Tim Engles

Fugitive Empire: Locating Early American Imperialism; To Be Suddenly White: Literary Realism and Racial Passing
Fugitive Empire: Locating Early American Imperialism. By Andy Doolen. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. xxvii, 254 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00.
To Be Suddenly White: Literary Realism and Racial Passing. By Steven J. Belluscio. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2006. x, 288 pp. $44.95.
American Literature 79(3): 612-615 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-025 [PDF]  

Stephanie Foote

Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value; At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930; Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970; Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation
Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value. By Tom Lutz. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2004. vii, 226 pp. Paper, $19.95.
At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930. By Betsy Klimasmith. Durham: Univ. of New Hampshire Press; Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. 2005. xii, 293 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $26.00.
Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970. By Melanie L. Simo. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2005. xv, 271 pp. $39.50.
Seeking the Region in American Literature and Culture: Modernity, Dissidence, Innovation. By Robert Jackson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2005. x, 174 pp. $44.95.
American Literature 79(3): 615-618 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-026 [PDF]  

Taylor Hagood

Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics; William Faulkner's Legacy: "What Shadow, What Stain, What Mark"
Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics. By Ted Atkinson. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2006. xi, 271 pp. $39.95.
William Faulkner's Legacy: "What Shadow, What Stain, What Mark." By Margaret Donovan Bauer. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2005. xiii, 255 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 79(3): 618-620 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-027 [PDF]  

Peter Kvidera

Private Histories: The Writing of Irish Americans, 1900-1935; Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing
Private Histories: The Writing of Irish Americans, 1900-1935. By Ron Ebest. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame Press. 2005. xi, 319 pp. Cloth, $58.00; paper, $25.00.
Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing. By Robert Viscusi. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2006. xxii, 272 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.95.
American Literature 79(3): 620-622 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-028 [PDF]  

Michelle A. Stephens

Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic; Reworlding America: Myth, History, and Narrative; What Women Lose: Exile and the Construction of Imaginary Homelands in Novels by Caribbean Writers
Creole America: The West Indies and the Formation of Literature and Culture in the New Republic. By Sean X. Goudie. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. 275 pp. $55.00.
Reworlding America: Myth, History, and Narrative. By John Muthyala. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2006. xiv, 213 pp. $39.95.
What Women Lose: Exile and the Construction of Imaginary Homelands in Novels by Caribbean Writers. By María Cristina Rodríguez. New York: Peter Lang. 2005. xxii, 200 pp. $32.95.
American Literature 79(3): 623-625 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-029 [PDF]  

David L. Eng

Passed On: African American Mourning Stories (A Memorial)
Passed On: African American Mourning Stories (A Memorial). By Karla F. C. Holloway. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2002. xii, 232 pp. $24.95.
American Literature 79(3): 625-627 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-030 [PDF]  

Anne Raine

The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry; Lyric Interventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry, and Contemporary Discourse; Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises, 1923-1934
The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry. By Elisabeth A. Frost. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2003. xviii, 245 pp. Paper, $19.95.
Lyric Interventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry, and Contemporary Discourse. By Linda A. Kinnahan. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. xxiii, 277 pp. $39.95.
Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises, 1923-1934. By Ulla E. Dydo with William Rice. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press. 2003. xvi, 686 pp. $49.95.
American Literature 79(3): 627-630 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-031 [PDF]  

Britt M. Rusert

Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology; Color Monitors: The Black Face of Technology in America
Technophobia! Science Fiction Visions of Posthuman Technology. By Daniel Dinello. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2005. 329 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95.
Color Monitors: The Black Face of Technology in America. By Martin Kevorkian. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2006. xii, 204 pp. Paper, $17.95.
American Literature 79(3): 630-632 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-032 [PDF]  

Brief Mention

Brief Mention
American Literature 79(3): 633-640 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-79-3-633 [PDF]  

Erratum

Erratum for Dan Moos, book review, American Literature 79 (March 2007): 208-10
American Literature 79(3): 641 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-033 [PDF]  

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