Articles

Maurice S. Lee

Probably Poe
American Literature 81(2): 225-252 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-001 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mark Noble

Whitman's Atom and the Crisis of Materiality in the Early Leaves of Grass
American Literature 81(2): 253-279 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-002 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nick Bromell

Reading Democratically: Pedagogies of Difference and Practices of Listening in The House of Mirth and Passing
American Literature 81(2): 281-303 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-003 [Abstract] [PDF]  

David H. Evans

CUT!... Flannery O'Connor's Apotemnophiliac Allegories
American Literature 81(2): 305-331 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-004 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Karen Jackson Ford

Marking Time in Native America: Haiku, Elegy, Survival
American Literature 81(2): 333-359 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-005 [Abstract] [PDF]  

John J. Su

Ghosts of Essentialism: Racial Memory as Epistemological Claim
American Literature 81(2): 361-386 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-006 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Philip Gould

Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship; Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women; The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-System
Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship. By Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2008. viii, 239 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95.
Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women. By Marion Rust. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2008. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95.
The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-System. By Stephen Shapiro. University Park, Pa.: Penn State Univ. Press. 2008. $55.00.
American Literature 81(2): 387-390 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-007 [PDF]  

Eden Osucha

Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature; The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature. By Peter Coviello. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. xii, 230 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00.
The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Stacey Margolis. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. xiii, 236 pp. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95.
American Literature 81(2): 390-392 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-008 [PDF]  

Melissa J. Homestead

Kate Field: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century American Journalist; Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer among the American Romantics
Kate Field: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century American Journalist. By Gary Scharnhorst. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press. 2008. xiv, 306 pp. $27.95.
Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer among the American Romantics. By Renée Bergland. Boston: Beacon Press. 2008. xviii, 300 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 81(2): 392-394 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-009 [PDF]  

Jason Stacy

American Transcendentalism: A History; Mediating American Autobiography: Photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman; William Cullen Bryant: Author of America; Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples
American Transcendentalism: A History. By Philip F. Gura. New York: Hill and Wang. 2007. xv, 385 pp. Cloth; $27.50; paper, $15.00.
Mediating American Autobiography: Photography in Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, and Whitman. By Sean Ross Meehan. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2008. xi, 264 pp. $39.95.
William Cullen Bryant: Author of America. By Gilbert H. Muller. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2008. ix, 410 pp. $30.00.
Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples. By Michael Robertson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2008. xiii, 368 pp. $27.95.
American Literature 81(2): 394-397 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-010 [PDF]  

Michael Nowlin

The Laughter of the Oppressed: Ethical and Theological Resistance in Wiesel, Morrison, and Endo; Race, Theft, and Ethics: Property Matters in African American Literature; Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading
The Laughter of the Oppressed: Ethical and Theological Resistance in Wiesel, Morrison, and Endo. By Jacqueline Bussie. New York: T and T Clark. 2007. viii, 212 pp. Cloth, $110.00; paper, $24.95.
Race, Theft, and Ethics: Property Matters in African American Literature. By Lovalerie King. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2007. x, 187 pp. Cloth, $110.00; paper, $35.00.
Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading. By Richard Deming. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2007. viii, 182 pp. $50.00.
American Literature 81(2): 397-400 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-011 [PDF]  

Susan Belasco

From Bondage to Belonging: The Worcester Slave Narratives; Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative; Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery Since "Gone with the Wind."
From Bondage to Belonging: The Worcester Slave Narratives. Ed. B. Eugene McCarthy and Thomas L. Doughton. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2007. liii, 325 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $22.95.
Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative. By Michael A. Chaney. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. 2008. xi, 254 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $19.95.
Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery Since "Gone with the Wind." By Tim A. Ryan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2008. ix, 260 pp. $37.50.
American Literature 81(2): 400-402 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-012 [PDF]  

Michael Robertson

American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840–1945; Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870–1930
American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840–1945. By Gavin Jones. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2008. xvi, 228 pp. $35.00.
Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870–1930. Ed. Tim Prchal and Tony Trigilio. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2008. xxi, 379 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $26.95.
American Literature 81(2): 403-404 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-013 [PDF]  

Marissa López

The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture; The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary
The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture. By John-Michael Rivera. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2006. vii, 211 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $20.00.
The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary. By Ramón Saldívar. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2006. x, 525 pp. Paper, $24.95.
American Literature 81(2): 405-407 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-014 [PDF]  

Peter Coviello

Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life; Intimacies; The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life. By Justus Nieland. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2008. x, 312 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $25.00.
Intimacies. By Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. viii, 125 pp. $20.00.
The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture. By Lauren Berlant. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2008. xiv, 353 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95.
American Literature 81(2): 407-409 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-015 [PDF]  

Theo Hummer

A Freedom Bought with Blood: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II; Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941
A Freedom Bought with Blood: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II. By Jennifer C. James. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. 324 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.50.
Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941. By Philip Metres. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2007. xii, 281 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 81(2): 410-411 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-016 [PDF]  

John Ernest

I Don't Hate the South: Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South; Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era
I Don't Hate the South: Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South. By Houston A. Baker Jr. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Univ. Press. 2007. xvii, 198 pp. Cloth, $125.00; paper, $25.00.
Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. By Houston A. Baker Jr. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2008. xxi, 242 pp. $24.95.
American Literature 81(2): 412-413 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-017 [PDF]  

Susan Rosenbaum

Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem; Don't Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing after the New York School
Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem. By Robert M. Dowling. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2007. ix, 200 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $20.00.
Don't Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing after the New York School. Ed. Daniel Kane. Champaign, Ill.: Dalkey Archive. 2006. xix, 399 pp. Paper, $34.95.
American Literature 81(2): 414-416 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-018 [PDF]  

Mark Fulk

The Spaces of Violence; The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature
The Spaces of Violence. By James R. Giles. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2006. xv, 209 pp. $42.50.
The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature. By Sharon Stockton. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2006. vii, 235 pp. $44.95.
American Literature 81(2): 416-418 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-019 [PDF]  

Christine So

Beyond Literary Chinatown; The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene
Beyond Literary Chinatown. By Jeffrey F. L. Partridge. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press. 2007. xvii, 246 pp. Paper, $24.95.
The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene. By Celine Parreñas Shimizu. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2007. xii, 339 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95.
American Literature 81(2): 418-420 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-020 [PDF]  

Michelle Balaev

Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction; Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land
Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction. By William Flesch. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2007. x, 252 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $18.95.
Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land. By Rinda West. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2007. xii, 264 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.50.
American Literature 81(2): 420-422 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-021 [PDF]  

Other
American Literature 81(2): 423-435 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-81-2-423 [PDF]  

Other
American Literature 81(2): 437 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-81-2-437 [PDF]  

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