Articles

Ed White

The Pequot Conspirator
American Literature 81(3): 439-467 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-022 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jordan Alexander Stein

Mary Rowlandson's Hunger and the Historiography of Sexuality
American Literature 81(3): 469-495 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-023 [Abstract] [PDF]  

William Huntting Howell

Spirits of Emulation: Readers, Samplers, and the Republican Girl, 1787–1810
American Literature 81(3): 497-526 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-024 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jake Mattox

The Mayor of San Juan del Norte? Nicaragua, Martin Delany, and the "Cotton" Americans
American Literature 81(3): 527-554 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-025 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stephanie LeMenager

"Geographical Morality": Place and the Problem of Patriotism in John W. De Forest's Civil War Realism
American Literature 81(3): 555-582 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-026 [Abstract] [PDF]  

John Alba Cutler

Disappeared Men: Chicana/o Authenticity and the American War in Viet Nam
American Literature 81(3): 583-611 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-027 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Christopher C. Freeburg

Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640–1940; The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640–1940. By Laura Doyle. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2008. xii, 578 pp. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $27.95.
The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade. By Christopher L. Miller. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2008. xvi, 571 pp. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $27.95.
American Literature 81(3): 613-615 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-028 [PDF]  

Betsy Klimasmith

Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature; Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry
Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature. By Ivy Schweitzer. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2006. xi, 276 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry. By Andrew Epstein. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2006. xvi, 359 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 81(3): 615-617 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-029 [PDF]  

Edlie Wong

Dark Victorians; Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World; The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture; The Great War and the Culture of the New Negro
Dark Victorians. By Vanessa D. Dickerson. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2008. vii, 163 pp. $35.00.
Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World. By Fionnghuala Sweeney. Liverpool, Eng.: Liverpool Univ. Press. 2007. 210 pp. $65.00.
The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture. By George Boulukos. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 280 pp. $95.00.
The Great War and the Culture of the New Negro. By Mark Whalan. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2008. xxii, 303 pp. $65.00.
American Literature 81(3): 618-621 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-030 [PDF]  

Franny Nudelman

Passive Constitutions, or, 7 1/2 Times Bartleby; Impersonality: Seven Essays
Passive Constitutions, or, 7 1/2 Times Bartleby. By Branka Arsi. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2007. 210 pp. $60.00.
Impersonality: Seven Essays. By Sharon Cameron. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2007. xx, 260 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $25.00.
American Literature 81(3): 621-623 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-031 [PDF]  

Hugh Egan

Melville: The Making of the Poet; Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation
Melville: The Making of the Poet. By Hershel Parker. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press. 2008. x, 238 pp. $32.95.
Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation. Ed. Robert S. Levine and Samuel Otter. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2008. vii, 475 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 81(3): 623-625 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-032 [PDF]  

Colbey Emmerson Reid

Interventions into Modernist Cultures: Poetry from beyond the Empty Screen; Race, Nationalism, and the State in British and American Modernism; Pop Modernism: Noise and the Reinvention of the Everyday
Interventions into Modernist Cultures: Poetry from beyond the Empty Screen. By Amie Elizabeth Parry. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2007. x, 188 pp. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95.
Race, Nationalism, and the State in British and American Modernism. By Patricia E. Chu. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2006. xi, 196 pp. $101.00.
Pop Modernism: Noise and the Reinvention of the Everyday. By Juan A. Suárez. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2007. x, 321 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $25.00.
American Literature 81(3): 626-628 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-033 [PDF]  

Keith Byerman

The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore; The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction
The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore. By Patrick B. Mullen. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2008. xii, 210 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00.
The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction. By Eric J. Sundquist. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2006. xiii, 151 pp. Paper, $19.95.
American Literature 81(3): 628-630 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-034 [PDF]  

James R. Giles

Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition; Black Heart: The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters
Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition. By Lorenzo Thomas. Ed. Aldon Lynn Nielsen. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2008. 224 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.95.
Black Heart: The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters. By Phillip M. Richards. New York: Peter Lang. 2006. xxxii, 252 pp. Paper, $32.95.
American Literature 81(3): 630-632 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-035 [PDF]  

Myriam J. A. Chancy

Race, American Literature, and Transnational Modernisms; Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature; Cuban Currency: The Dollar and "Special Period" Fiction
Race, American Literature, and Transnational Modernisms. By Anita Patterson. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2008. vi, 241 pp. $90.00.
Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature. By Leah Reade Rosenberg. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. x, 260 pp. $74.95.
Cuban Currency: The Dollar and "Special Period" Fiction. By Esther Whitfield. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2008. 217 pp. Paper, $22.50.
American Literature 81(3): 633-635 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-036 [PDF]  

Allison Schachter

Discovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish American Culture during the Holocaust; Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity
Discovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish American Culture during the Holocaust. By Anita Norich. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2007. xiii, 215 pp. $45.00.
Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity. By Jonathan Freedman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2007. xi, 388 pp. $34.50.
American Literature 81(3): 635-637 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-037 [PDF]  

Gene Andrew Jarrett

The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II; Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates
The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II. Ed. David A. Hollinger. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2006. vi, 421 pp. $45.00.
Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates. Ed. Mary Jo Bona and Irma Maini. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2006. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $74.50; paper, $26.95.
American Literature 81(3): 637-639 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-038 [PDF]  

Jonathan Arac

The Rites of Identity: The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison
The Rites of Identity: The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison. By Beth Eddy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2003. xi, 204 pp. $55.00.
American Literature 81(3): 639-641 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-039 [PDF]  

Virginia Kennedy

Listening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape; The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast
Listening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape. By Lee Schweninger. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2008. ii, 242 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95.
The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast. By Lisa Brooks. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2008. xlvi, 346 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50.
American Literature 81(3): 641-643 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-040 [PDF]  

Patrick Jagoda

Postmodern American Literature and Its Other; Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database; From the Civil War to the Apocalypse: Postmodern History and American Fiction
Postmodern American Literature and Its Other. By W. Lawrence Hogue. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2008. xvi, 212 pp. $45.00.
Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database. By Alan Liu. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xii, 392 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $25.00.
From the Civil War to the Apocalypse: Postmodern History and American Fiction. By Timothy Parrish. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2008. x, 308 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $28.95.
American Literature 81(3): 643-646 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-041 [PDF]  

Other
American Literature 81(3): 647-655 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-81-3-647 [PDF]  

Other
American Literature 81(3): 657-658 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-81-3-657 [PDF]  

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