Articles

Britt Rusert and Priscilla Wald

Introduction
American Literature 81(1): 1-6 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-048 [PDF]  

Edlie Wong

"Freedom with a Vengeance": Choosing Kin in Antislavery Literature and Law
American Literature 81(1): 7-34 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-049 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jeannine Marie DeLombard

Salvaging Legal Personhood: Melville's Benito Cereno
American Literature 81(1): 35-64 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-050 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andrea Stone

Interracial Sexual Abuse and Legal Subjectivity in Antebellum Law and Literature
American Literature 81(1): 65-92 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-051 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sarah Blackwood

Fugitive Obscura: Runaway Slave Portraiture and Early Photographic Technology
American Literature 81(1): 93-125 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-052 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lance Newman

Free Soil and the Abolitionist Forests of Frederick Douglass's "The Heroic Slave"
American Literature 81(1): 127-152 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-053 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andy Doolen

"Be Cautious of the Word `Rebel'": Race, Revolution, and Transnational History in Martin Delany's Blake; or, The Huts of America
American Literature 81(1): 153-179 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-054 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Review Essay

Gretchen Murphy

Nation, Ocean, Hemisphere, and Planet: New Geographies of American Literary Studies
American Literature 81(1): 181-191 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-055 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Jordan Alexander Stein

Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America; Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy; Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History; Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History
Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America. Ed. Thomas A. Foster. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2007. ix, 405 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00.
Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy. By Michael S. Sherry. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. vii, 292 pp. $29.95.
Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History. By Heather Love. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2007. 196 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $16.95.
Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History. By Scott Herring. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2007. xv, 278 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $25.00.
American Literature 81(1): 193-196 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-056 [PDF]  

Paul Grimstad

Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century; One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic; A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America
Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century. By Theo Davis. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2007. vi, 203 pp. $85.00.
One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic. By Martha Banta. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2007. xxx, 306 pp. $38.00.
A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America. By Thomas M. Allen. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 200. xii, 275 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.95.
American Literature 81(1): 196-198 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-057 [PDF]  

Frederick Luis Aldama

The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American Animated Short Films, 1907–1954; What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America; Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel
The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American Animated Short Films, 1907–1954. By Christopher P. Lehman. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2007. 152 pp. $29.95.
What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America. By Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar González. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 200. 234 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.95.
Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel. By Chip Rhodes. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2008. 190 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 81(1): 199-200 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-058 [PDF]  

Philip Beidler

Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World; Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945–1960
Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World. By Bonnie Costello. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2008. xvii, 205 pp. $29.95.
Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945–1960. By Alan Filreis. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2008. xxiii, 422 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 81(1): 201-203 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-059 [PDF]  

Candice M. Jenkins

Breaking the Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism; Our Living Manhood: Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology; Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta
Breaking the Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism. By David Ikard. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2007. xiv, 191 pp. $35.00.
Our Living Manhood: Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology. By Rolland Murray. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. 148 pp. $39.95.
Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta. By Riché Richardson. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2007. xi, 296 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $22.95.
American Literature 81(1): 203-205 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-060 [PDF]  

Heather Love

National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature; Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America; Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism; Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity
National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature. By Mitchell Breitwieser. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2007. ix, 322 pp. $60.00.
Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America. By Dana Luciano. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2007. xii, 345 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00.
Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism. By Seth Moglen. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2007. xviii, 324 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95.
Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity. By Christopher Peterson. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2007. x, 188 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50.
American Literature 81(1): 206-209 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-061 [PDF]  

Brief Mention

Brief Mention
American Literature 81(1): 211-222 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-81-1-211 [PDF]  

In Memoriam: Carol Rigsby
American Literature 81(1): 223 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-81-1-223 [PDF]  

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