Articles

Lara Langer Cohen

Democratic Representations: Puffery and the Antebellum Print Explosion
American Literature 79(4): 643-672 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-034 [PDF]  

Stephen Knadler

Sensationalizing Patriotism: Sutton Griggs and the Sentimental Nationalism of Citizen Tom
American Literature 79(4): 673-699 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-035 [PDF]  

Stephanie Foote

Little Brothers of the Rich: Queer Families in the Gilded Age
American Literature 79(4): 701-724 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-036 [PDF]  

Lorna Brittan

Edith Wharton's Alchemy of Publicity
American Literature 79(4): 725-751 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-037 [PDF]  

Martyn Bone

The (Extended) South of Black Folk: Intraregional and Transnational Migrant Labor in Jonah's Gourd Vine and Their Eyes Were Watching God
American Literature 79(4): 753-779 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-038 [PDF]  

Brian Glavey

Frank O'Hara Nude with Boots: Queer Ekphrasis and the Statuesque Poet
American Literature 79(4): 781-806 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-039 [PDF]  

Review Essay

Tony Tost

Poetry Criticism after the Narrative Turn
American Literature 79(4): 807-820 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-040 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Lance Newman

Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America; Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America
Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America. By Anne Baker. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2006. 173 pp. $60.00.
Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America. By Susan Clair Imbarrato. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2006. xiv, 254 pp. $42.95.
American Literature 79(4): 821-823 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-041 [PDF]  

Dawn Keetley

The Kentucky Tragedy: A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America; The Spectacle of Death: Populist Literary Responses to American Capital Cases; Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American Literature, 1852-1867
The Kentucky Tragedy: A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America. By Dickson D. Bruce Jr. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2006. 176 pp. $40.00.
The Spectacle of Death: Populist Literary Responses to American Capital Cases. By Kristin Boudreau. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus. 2006. 292 pp. Paper, $20.00.
Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American Literature, 1852-1867. By Deak Nabers. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2006. xii, 234 pp. $49.95.
American Literature 79(4): 823-826 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-042 [PDF]  

Jeannine Marie DeLombard

The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence; Love, Wages, Slavery: The Literature of Servitude in the United States
The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence. By Susan M. Ryan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 237 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.95.
Love, Wages, Slavery: The Literature of Servitude in the United States. By Barbara Ryan. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2006. 246 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 79(4): 826-828 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-043 [PDF]  

Jennifer Greeson

Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South; American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869
Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South. By Catherine Kerrison. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2006. xiii, 265 pp. $49.95.
American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869. By Melissa J. Homestead. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. xi, 272 pp. $70.00.
American Literature 79(4): 828-830 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-044 [PDF]  

Hugh Egan

Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle; Poe, Fuller, and the Mesmeric Arts: Transition States in the American Renaissance
Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle. By Eliza Richards. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xvii, 238 pp. $75.00.
Poe, Fuller, and the Mesmeric Arts: Transition States in the American Renaissance. By Bruce Mills. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2006. xx, 202 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 79(4): 830-832 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-045 [PDF]  

Sean Metzger

The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity; Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism: Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement; Performance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts
The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity. By Brenda Murphy. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. xix, 282 pp. $85.00.
Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism: Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement. By Mike Sell. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2005. vi, 327 pp. $60.00.
Performance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts. By David Román. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. xx, 353 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95.
American Literature 79(4): 833-835 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-046 [PDF]  

Claudia Stokes

Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction; The March of Spare Time: The Problem and Promise of Leisure in the Great Depression; The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work
Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction. By David A. Zimmerman. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2006. xii, 294 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50.
The March of Spare Time: The Problem and Promise of Leisure in the Great Depression. By Susan Currell. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. 235 pp. $39.95.
The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work. By Andrew Hoberek. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2005. x, 158 pp. Cloth, $57.50; paper, $21.95.
American Literature 79(4): 835-838 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-047 [PDF]  

Koritha Mitchell

Lynching in the West, 1850-1935; A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature
Lynching in the West, 1850-1935. By Ken Gonzales-Day. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2006. xii, 299 pp. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95.
A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature. By Jacqueline Goldsby. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2006. 418 pp. Cloth, $67.00; paper, $25.00.
American Literature 79(4): 838-840 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-048 [PDF]  

Cynthia Young

At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing; Demonic Grounds: Black Women and The Cartographies of Struggle
At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing. By Wendy W. Walters. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. xxv, 177 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00.
Demonic Grounds: Black Women and The Cartographies of Struggle. By Katherine McKittrick. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. xxxi, 190 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00.
American Literature 79(4): 840-842 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-049 [PDF]  

Jodi Melamed

The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor; Incorporations: Race, Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital
The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor. By Grace Kyungwon Hong. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. xxxiv, 190 pp. Cloth, $58.50; paper, $19.50.
Incorporations: Race, Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital. By Eva Cherniavsky. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. xxvii, 182 pp. Cloth, $58.50; paper, $19.50.
American Literature 79(4): 843-845 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-050 [PDF]  

Mary Paniccia Carden

Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction; Re-Forming the Past: History, the Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative
Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction. By Keith Byerman. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2005. viii, 228 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
Re-Forming the Past: History, the Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative. By A. Timothy Spaulding. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2005. x, 148 pp. Cloth, $39.95; compact disc, $9.95.
American Literature 79(4): 845-847 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-051 [PDF]  

Sari Edelstein

Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880-1930; The Female Investigator in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880-1930. By Jean Marie Lutes. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2006. vii, 232 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95.
The Female Investigator in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture. By Lisa M. Dresner. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2007. vii, 232 pp. Paper, $35.00.
American Literature 79(4): 847-849 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-052 [PDF]  

Josephine Nock-Hee Park

American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America; Model-Minority Imperialism
American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America. By Allan Punzalan Isaac. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. xxx, 205 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00.
Model-Minority Imperialism. By Victor Bascara. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. xxxvi, 192 pp. Cloth, $58.50; paper, $19.50.
American Literature 79(4): 850-852 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-053 [PDF]  

Allen Hibbard

The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas; Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form
The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas. By Rob Johnson. College Station: Texas A & M Univ. Press. 2006. 224 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $19.95.
Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form. By Michael Hrebeniak. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2006. 320 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 79(4): 852-854 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-054 [PDF]  

Sarah Eden Schiff

Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s; Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity; Mocking the Age: The Later Novels of Philip Roth
Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s. By Janet Handler Burstein. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 2006. xv, 264 pp. $45.00.
Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity. By Ross Posnock. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2006. xxi, 301 pp. $29.95.
Mocking the Age: The Later Novels of Philip Roth. By Elaine B. Safer. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2006. x, 219 pp. Cloth, $65.50; paper, $21.95.
American Literature 79(4): 854-856 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-055 [PDF]  

Philip Joseph

The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland; Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern Writing; How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia
The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland. By William Barillas. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2006. xviii, 258 pp. $39.95.
Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern Writing. By Mary Weaks-Baxter. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2006. xi, 191 pp. $42.95.
How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia. By Katherine Vande Brake. Macon, Ga.: Mercer Univ. Press. 2001. xiii, 298 pp. Paper, $20.00.
American Literature 79(4): 857-859 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-056 [PDF]  

Mark Fulk

Straight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of Heterosexuality in Literature; Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where "Black" Meets "Queer" (Series Q); Queer Gothic
Straight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of Heterosexuality in Literature. Ed. Richard Fantina. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2006. 274 pp. Paper, $45.00.
Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where "Black" Meets "Queer" (Series Q). By Kathryn Bond Stockton. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2006. 217 pp. Paper, $22.95.
Queer Gothic. By George E. Haggerty. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2006. x, 231 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $20.00.
American Literature 79(4): 859-862 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-057 [PDF]  

Joel Dinerstein

Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics; Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing; Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature
Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics. By John Gennari. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2006. xiv, 480 pp. $35.00.
Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing. By David Yaffe. Trenton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2006. ix, 230 pp. $29.95.
Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature. By Michael Borshuk. New York: Routledge. 2005. xi, 252 pp. $75.00.
American Literature 79(4): 862-864 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-058 [PDF]  

Brief Mention

Brief Mention
American Literature 79(4): 865-870 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-79-4-865 [PDF]  

Announcement

Announcement
American Literature 79(4): 871 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-79-4-871 [PDF]  

Erratum

Erratum
American Literature 79(4): 903 (2007); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-059 [PDF]  

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