Articles

Elizabeth Duquette

The Republican Mammy? Imagining Civic Engagement in Dred
American Literature 80(1): 1-28 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-060 [PDF]  

Cynthia Wu

The Siamese Twins in Late-Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Conflict and Reconciliation
American Literature 80(1): 29-55 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-061 [PDF]  

Mike Chasar

The Sounds of Black Laughter and the Harlem Renaissance: Claude McKay, Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes
American Literature 80(1): 57-81 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-062 [PDF]  

Alissa Karl

Modernism's Risky Business: Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach, and American Consumer Capitalism
American Literature 80(1): 83-109 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-063 [PDF]  

Leif Sorensen

The Anti-corrido of George Washington Gómez: A Narrative of Emergent Subject Formation
American Literature 80(1): 111-140 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-064 [PDF]  

Megan Obourn

Hybridity, Identity, and Representation in La Mollie and the King of Tears
American Literature 80(1): 141-166 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-065 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans; Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race; Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature
Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans. By Michael J. Colacurcio. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame Press. 2006. xix, 650 pp. $50.00.
Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race. By Gay Gibson Cima. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2006. xi, 241 pp. $85.00.
Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature. By Tracy Fessenden. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2007. x, 337 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 80(1): 167-169 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-066 [PDF]  

Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America; Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic
Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America. By Angela Vietto. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2005. ix, 147 pp. $89.95.
Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic. By Mary Kelley. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2006. x, 294 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 80(1): 170-172 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-067 [PDF]  

Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860; To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord
Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Arthur Riss. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2006. viii, 238 pp. $80.00.
Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860. By Maurice S. Lee. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. viii, 223 pp. $80.00.
To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord. By Sandra Harbert Petrulionis. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2006. xi, 233 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 80(1): 172-174 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-068 [PDF]  

Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade; Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870–1920
Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade. By Alan M. Wald. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. xviii, 319 pp. $34.95.
Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870–1920. By Leslie Petty. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2006. viii, 231 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 80(1): 175-177 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-069 [PDF]  

Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction; Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku; Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature; Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance
Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction. By James W. Coleman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2006. 252 pp. $42.95.
Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku. By Yoshinobu Hakutani. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2006. ix, 251 pp. Cloth, $41.95; compact disc, $9.95.
Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature. By John K. Young. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2006. ix, 230 pp. $40.00.
Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance. By Gary Edward Holcomb. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2007. xiv, 273 pp. $59.95.
American Literature 80(1): 177-180 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-070 [PDF]  

American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age; Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape; From the Garden Club: Rural Women Writing Community
American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age. By Philip Joseph. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2007. xii, 232 pp. $45.00.
Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape. By Douglas Reichert Powell. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. xiii, 260 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95.
From the Garden Club: Rural Women Writing Community. By Charlotte Hogg. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2006. xiv, 182 pp. Paper, $15.95.
American Literature 80(1): 180-182 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-071 [PDF]  

Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival; Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization: Fictions of Independence
Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival. By Meredith M. Gadsby. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2006. vii, 225 pp. $39.95.
Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization: Fictions of Independence. By Helen C. Scott. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2006. 193 pp. $89.95.
American Literature 80(1): 183-185 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-072 [PDF]  

American Indian Literary Nationalism; Muting White Noise: Native American and European American Novel Traditions
American Indian Literary Nationalism. By Jace Weaver, Craig S. Womack, and Robert Warrior. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press. 2006. xxii, 272 pp. Paper, $19.95.
Muting White Noise: Native American and European American Novel Traditions. By James H. Cox. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2006. xi, 338 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 80(1): 185-187 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-073 [PDF]  

The Origins of the American Detective Story; Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana(o) Identity; True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity
The Origins of the American Detective Story. By LeRoy Lad Panek. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2006. viii, 227 pp. Paper, $35.00.
Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana(o) Identity. By Ralph E. Rodriguez. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2005. xviii, 183 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95.
True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity. By Mark Seltzer. New York: Routledge. 2007. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $26.95.
American Literature 80(1): 187-189 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2007-074 [PDF]  

Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times
Editions
Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times. By Walt Whitman. Ed. Christopher Castiglia and Glenn Hendler. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2007. lvii, 147 pp. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $21.95.
American Literature 80(1): 191 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-191 [PDF]  

The Education of Henry Adams: A Centennial Version
Editions
The Education of Henry Adams: A Centennial Version. Ed. Edward Chalfant and Conrad Edick Wright. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2007. xiv, 500 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 80(1): 191 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-191-a [PDF]  

Field o' My Dreams: The Poetry of Gene Stratton-Porter
Editions
Field o' My Dreams: The Poetry of Gene Stratton-Porter. Ed. Mary DeJong Obuchowski. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2007. ix, 245 pp. $32.95.
American Literature 80(1): 192 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-192 [PDF]  

Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe: European Perceptions and Appropriations of Native American Cultures from Pocahontas to the Present
General
Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe: European Perceptions and Appropriations of Native American Cultures from Pocahontas to the Present. By Dagmar Wernitznig. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2007. viii, 143 pp. Cloth, $52.00; paper, $26.00.
American Literature 80(1): 192 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-192-a [PDF]  

Native American Life-History Narratives: Colonial and Postcolonial Navajo Ethnography
General
Native American Life-History Narratives: Colonial and Postcolonial Navajo Ethnography. By Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press. 2007. xxx, 257 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 80(1): 192 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-192-b [PDF]  

River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain
General
River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain. By Thomas Ruys Smith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2007. x, 232 pp. $38.00.
American Literature 80(1): 193 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-193 [PDF]  

Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Vol. 2: The Public Years
General
Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Vol. 2: The Public Years. By Charles Capper. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2007. xxi, 649 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 80(1): 193 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-193-a [PDF]  

Emerson's Nonlinear Nature
General
Emerson's Nonlinear Nature. By Christopher J. Windolph. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2007. ix, 200 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 80(1): 193 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-193-b [PDF]  

Margaret Junkin Preston, Poet of the Confederacy: A Literary Life
General
Margaret Junkin Preston, Poet of the Confederacy: A Literary Life. By Stacey Jean Klein. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press. 2007. xvi, 137 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 80(1): 193-194 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-193-c [PDF]  

America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of "Magnalia Christi Americana
General
America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of "Magnalia Christi Americana." By Dorothy Z. Baker. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2007. viii, 161 pp. Cloth, $37.95; compact disc, $9.95.
American Literature 80(1): 194 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-194 [PDF]  

Madness and the Loss of Identity in Nineteenth Century Fiction
General
Madness and the Loss of Identity in Nineteenth Century Fiction. By Judy Cornes. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2008. vii, 216 pp. Paper, $39.95.
American Literature 80(1): 194 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-194-a [PDF]  

Decadence in the Late Novels of Henry James
General
Decadence in the Late Novels of Henry James. By Anna Kventsel. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. x, 232 pp. $69.95.
American Literature 80(1): 194 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-194-b [PDF]  

Josefina Niggli, Mexican American Writer: A Critical Biography
General
Josefina Niggli, Mexican American Writer: A Critical Biography. By Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press. 2007. x, 317 pp. Paper, $24.95.
American Literature 80(1): 194-195 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-194-c [PDF]  

The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature
General
The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature. By Robert W. Trogdon. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2007. ix, 307 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 80(1): 195 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-195 [PDF]  

William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words
General
William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words. By Richard Godden. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2007. x, 251 pp. $39.50.
American Literature 80(1): 195 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-195-a [PDF]  

William Faulkner
General
William Faulkner. By Carolyn Porter. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2007. vii, 199 pp. $21.00.
American Literature 80(1): 195 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-195-b [PDF]  

Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination
General
Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination. By Nancy M. Grace. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. ix, 261 pp. $69.95.
American Literature 80(1): 195-196 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-195-c [PDF]  

Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the "Outsider" and Loujon Press
General
Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the "Outsider" and Loujon Press. By Jeff Weddle. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2007. xiii, 220 pp. $28.00.
American Literature 80(1): 196 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-196 [PDF]  

Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics
General
Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics. By Tony Trigilio. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2007. xx, 256 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 80(1): 196 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-196-a [PDF]  

Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction
General
Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction. By Gary Westfahl. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2007. ix, 273 pp. Paper, $35.00.
American Literature 80(1): 196 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-196-b [PDF]  

Religious Idiom and the African American Novel, 1952–1998
General
Religious Idiom and the African American Novel, 1952–1998. By Tuire Valkeakari. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2007. ix, 261 pp. $59.95.
American Literature 80(1): 197 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-197 [PDF]  

Postmodern Humanism in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Reconciling the Void
General
Postmodern Humanism in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Reconciling the Void. By Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. xxv, 198 pp. $65.00.
American Literature 80(1): 197 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-197-a [PDF]  

Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today
General
Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today. By Anita Gandolfo. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2007. xii, 192 pp. $44.95.
American Literature 80(1): 197 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-197-b [PDF]  

Rumors of War and Infernal Machines: Technomilitary Agenda-Setting in American and British Speculative Fiction
General
Rumors of War and Infernal Machines: Technomilitary Agenda-Setting in American and British Speculative Fiction. By Charles E. Gannon. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2005. 311 pp. Cloth, $82.50; paper, $26.95.
American Literature 80(1): 197-198 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-197-c [PDF]  

The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550–1624
Collections
The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550–1624. Ed. Peter C. Mancall. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. vi, 596 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $27.50.
American Literature 80(1): 198 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-198 [PDF]  

Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Collections
Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Ed. Susan Gillman and Alys Eve Weinbaum. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2007. 432 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00.
American Literature 80(1): 198 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-198-a [PDF]  

Anglo-American Modernity and the Mediterranean
Collections
Anglo-American Modernity and the Mediterranean. Ed. Caroline Patey, Giovanni Cianci, and Francesca Cuojati. Milano: Cisalpino. 399 pp. Paper, no price available.
American Literature 80(1): 198 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-198-b [PDF]  

Back to Peace: Reconciliation and Retribution in the Postwar Period
Collections
Back to Peace: Reconciliation and Retribution in the Postwar Period. Ed. Aránzazu Usandizaga and Andrew Monnickendam. Notre Dame, Ind.: Notre Dame Univ. Press. 2007. vii, 312 pp. Paper, $35.00.
American Literature 80(1): 199 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-199 [PDF]  

Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts
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Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts. Ed. David S. Goldstein and Audrey B. Thacker. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press. 2007. xxviii, 320 pp. $50.00.
American Literature 80(1): 199 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-199-a [PDF]  

Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen
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Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen. Ed. R. Barton Palmer. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2007. xiii, 262 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $29.99.
American Literature 80(1): 199 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-199-b [PDF]  

Twentieth-Century American Fiction on Screen
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Twentieth-Century American Fiction on Screen. Ed. R. Barton Palmer. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2007. xii, 257 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $29.99.
American Literature 80(1): 200 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-200 [PDF]  

All Roads Lead to the American City
Collections
All Roads Lead to the American City. Ed. Peter Swirski. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press. 2007. 154 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 80(1): 200 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-200-a [PDF]  

American Literature 80(1): 201 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-1-201 [PDF]  

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