Articles

Jeffrey H. Richards

Sati in Philadelphia: The Widow(s) of Malabar
American Literature 80(4): 647-675 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-034 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mark Rifkin

Documenting Tradition: Territoriality and Textuality in Black Hawk's Narrative
American Literature 80(4): 677-705 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-035 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Elizabeth Dill

That Damned Mob of Scribbling Siblings: The American Romance as Anti-novel in The Power of Sympathy and Pierre
American Literature 80(4): 707-738 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-036 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Bonnie Carr O'Neill

"The Best of Me Is There": Emerson as Lecturer and Celebrity
American Literature 80(4): 739-767 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-037 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jodi Melamed

The Killing Joke of Sympathy: Chester Himes's End of a Primitive Sounds the Limits of Midcentury Racial Liberalism
American Literature 80(4): 769-797 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-038 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anne Raine

Science, Nature Work, and the Kinaesthetic Body in Cather and Stein
American Literature 80(4): 799-830 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-039 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Peter West

The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England; Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive Era
The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England. By Matthew P. Brown. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. xiv, 265 pp. $65.00.
Danger on the Doorstep: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive Era. By Justin Nordstrom. Notre Dame, Ind.: Notre Dame Univ. Press, 2006. x, 296 pp. Paper, $30.00.
American Literature 80(4): 831-833 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-040 [PDF]  

Peter Carafiol

Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature; The Transcendentalists
Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Bridget Bennett. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. x, 247 pp. $69.95.
The Transcendentalists. By Barbara L. Packer. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2007. 304 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $22.95.
American Literature 80(4): 833-835 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-041 [PDF]  

Hugh Egan

The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives; Women and Children First: Nineteenth-Century Sea Narratives and American Identity; "Whole Oceans Away": Melville and the Pacific
The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives. By Hester Blum. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2008. xi, 271 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.95.
Women and Children First: Nineteenth-Century Sea Narratives and American Identity. By Robin Miskolcze. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2008. xxii, 220 pp. $45.00.
"Whole Oceans Away": Melville and the Pacific. Ed. Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2007. xxi, 350 pp. $65.00.
American Literature 80(4): 836-838 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-042 [PDF]  

Britt Rusert

Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776–1858; American Architects and Their Books, 1840–1915
Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776–1858. By Duncan Faherty. Hanover, N.H.: Univ. Press of New England. 2007. xi, 246 pp. $50.00.
American Architects and Their Books, 1840–1915. Ed. Kenneth Hafertepe and James F. O'Gorman. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2007. xxvi, 303 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 80(4): 838-840 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-043 [PDF]  

John David Miles

Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race and Reform; E Pluribus Unum: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Constitutional Paradox
Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race and Reform. By Lucy Maddox. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2005. 205 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $19.95.
E Pluribus Unum: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Constitutional Paradox. By W. C. Harris. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2005. x, 314 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 80(4): 841-843 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-044 [PDF]  

Michael Lundblad

Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice; "Good Observers of Nature": American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820–1885
Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice. Ed. Annie Merrill Ingram, Ian Marshall, Daniel J. Philippon, and Adam W. Sweeting. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2007. ix, 278 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95.
"Good Observers of Nature": American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820–1885. By Tina Gianquitto. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2007. xii, 216 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 80(4): 843-845 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-045 [PDF]  

Courtney R. Baker

Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century; Telling Narratives: Secrets in African American Literature; Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama
Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century. By Sara Blair. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2007. xxi, 353 pp. $35.00.
Telling Narratives: Secrets in African American Literature. By Leslie W. Lewis. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2007. viii, 217 pp. $40.00.
Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama. By Lisa M. Anderson. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2008. viii, 142 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 80(4): 845-847 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-046 [PDF]  

Patrick Jagoda

Reading Network Fiction; This Book Contains Graphic Language: Comics as Literature
Reading Network Fiction. By David Ciccoricco. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. x, 244 pp. $39.95.
This Book Contains Graphic Language: Comics as Literature. By Rocco Versaci. New York: Continuum. 2007. ix, 237 pp. Cloth, $102.00; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 80(4): 848-850 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-047 [PDF]  

Call for Papers: Rudolph Fisher, Luminary of the Harlem Renaissance
American Literature 80(4): 851-852 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-4-851 [PDF]  

Call for Papers: Emily Dickinson's Reading
American Literature 80(4): 852 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-4-852 [PDF]  

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