Articles

David Grant

Self-Abasement and Republican Insecurity: Paul Fane in Its Political Context
American Literature 80(3): 443-469 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-018 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Molly Robey

Sacred Geographies: Religion and Race in Women's Holy Land Writings
American Literature 80(3): 471-500 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-019 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Wendy W. Walters

"Object into Subject": Michelle Cliff, John Ruskin, and the Terrors of Visual Art
American Literature 80(3): 501-526 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-020 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Susan Zieger

Impostors of Freedom: Southern White Manhood, Hypodermic Morphine, and E. P. Roe's Without a Home
American Literature 80(3): 527-554 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-021 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Betsy Klimasmith

Salvaging History: Modern Philosophies of Memory and Time in The Age of Innocence
American Literature 80(3): 555-581 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-022 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Marjorie Pryse

Signifyin(g) on Reparation in Toni Morrison's Jazz
American Literature 80(3): 583-609 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-023 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Joanna Brooks

Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer; Speak Like Singing: Classics of Native American Literature
Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer. By Michael A. Elliott. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2007. vii, 336 pp. $25.00.
Speak Like Singing: Classics of Native American Literature. By Kenneth Lincoln. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press. 2007. xv, 367 pp. $26.95.
American Literature 80(3): 611-613 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-024 [PDF]  

Harold K. Bush, Jr.

Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity; Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle
Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity. By David Haven Blake. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2006. xv, 251 pp. $35.00.
Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle. By Andrew Lawson. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2006. xxiv, 157 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 80(3): 613-615 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-025 [PDF]  

Patricia Kennedy Bostian

America the Middlebrow: Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars; Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America
America the Middlebrow: Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars. By Jaime Harker. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2007. viii, 208 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $24.95.
Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America. By Deborah Clarke. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2007. xii, 226 pp. Cloth, $49.00; paper, $25.00.
American Literature 80(3): 615-617 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-026 [PDF]  

Brian M. Reed

John Ashbery and You: His Later Books; Beyond Maximus: The Construction of Public Voice in Black Mountain Poetry; A Vocabulary of Thinking: Gertrude Stein and Contemporary North American Women's Innovative Writing; Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions
John Ashbery and You: His Later Books. By John Emil Vincent. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2007. xii, 192 pp. $32.95.
Beyond Maximus: The Construction of Public Voice in Black Mountain Poetry. By Anne Day Dewey. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2007. xv, 286 pp. $60.00.
A Vocabulary of Thinking: Gertrude Stein and Contemporary North American Women's Innovative Writing. By Deborah M. Mix. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2007. 248 pp. $39.95.
Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions. By Maggie Nelson. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2007. xxvii, 288 pp. $42.50.
American Literature 80(3): 617-620 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-027 [PDF]  

Annette Trefzer

The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction; Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing; Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936–1961; Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy
The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction. By Martyn Bone. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2005. xvi, 275 pp. $49.95.
Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing. By Katherine Henninger. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. xix, 232 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95.
Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936–1961. By Gary Richards. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2005. 256 pp. $44.95.
Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy. By Gary M. Ciuba. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2007. x, 287 pp. $47.50.
American Literature 80(3): 621-624 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-028 [PDF]  

Robert McRuer

Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature; Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities; Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature. Ed. H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, and Heidi M. Rose. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2006. xxviii, 264 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $29.95.
Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities. By Susannah B. Mintz. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. x, 251 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $21.95.
Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Christopher Krentz. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. xiii, 263 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 80(3): 624-626 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-029 [PDF]  

David M. Stewart

Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States; The Temple and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman; From Broadway to Cleveland: A History of the Hanna Theatre
Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States. Ed. Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2007. x, 368 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $28.95.
The Temple and the Forum: The American Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, and Whitman. By Les Harrison. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. xxv, 272 pp. $42.50.
From Broadway to Cleveland: A History of the Hanna Theatre. By John Vacha. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2007. xi, 196 pp. Paper, $24.95.
American Literature 80(3): 627-629 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-030 [PDF]  

Abigail Salerno

The Evolution of Film: Rethinking Film Studies; Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations
The Evolution of Film: Rethinking Film Studies. By Janet Harbord. Cambridge: Polity Press. 2007. ix, 198 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.95.
Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations. By Jonathan Auerbach. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2007. xii, 200 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 80(3): 629-631 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-031 [PDF]  

Brigitte Bailey

Domesticating Foreign Struggles: The Italian Risorgimento and Antebellum American Identity; Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869–1922; Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art-Romance Tradition
Domesticating Foreign Struggles: The Italian Risorgimento and Antebellum American Identity. By Paola Gemme. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2005. ix, 204 pp. $39.95.
Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869–1922. By Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. xii, 209 pp. $26.00.
Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art-Romance Tradition. By Jonah Siegel. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2005. xv, 285 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $26.95.
American Literature 80(3): 631-634 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-032 [PDF]  

Kent A. Ono

Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination; Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century; American Science Fiction TV: Star Trek, Stargate, and Beyond
Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination. By Robert Markley. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. 456 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95.
Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century. By Martin Willis. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2006. viii, 273 pp. Paper, $29.00.
American Science Fiction TV: Star Trek, Stargate, and Beyond. By Jan Johnson-Smith. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press. 2005. vii, 320 pp. Paper, $24.95.
American Literature 80(3): 634-637 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-033 [PDF]  

Brief Mentions
American Literature 80(3): 639-644 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-3-639 [PDF]  

Announcements
American Literature 80(3): 645 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-3-645 [PDF]  

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