Articles

Jeffrey Insko

The Logic of Left Alone: The Pioneers and the Conditions of U.S. Privacy
American Literature 81(4): 659-685 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-042 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hsuan L. Hsu

Vagrancy and Comparative Racialization in Huckleberry Finn and "Three Vagabonds of Trinidad"
American Literature 81(4): 687-717 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-043 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nicholas Gaskill

Red Cars with Red Lights and Red Drivers: Color, Crane, and Qualia
American Literature 81(4): 719-745 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-044 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Michael Lundblad

Epistemology of the Jungle: Progressive-Era Sexuality and the Nature of the Beast
American Literature 81(4): 747-773 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-045 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lena M. Hill

The Visual Art of Invisible Man: Ellison's Portrait of Blackness
American Literature 81(4): 775-803 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-046 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kaplan Page Harris

New Narrative and the Making of Language Poetry
American Literature 81(4): 805-832 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-047 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Joanna Brooks

The Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England; Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789–1814; The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830; Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies
The Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England. By Teresa A. Toulouse. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. 225 pp. $49.95.
Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789–1814. By Karen A. Weyler. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2005. x, 269 pp. Cloth, $41.00; paper, $21.00.
The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830. By Martha Tom-have Blauvelt. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2007. xi, 275 pp. $39.50.
Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies. Ed. Mary C. Carruth. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2006. xxii, 328 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $32.95.
American Literature 81(4): 833-836 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-048 [PDF]  

David M. Stewart

The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770–1870; The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America; Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation: American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876–1893
The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770–1870. By Trish Loughran. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2007. xxv, 537 pp. Cloth, $46.50; paper, $24.50.
The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America. By Leon Jackson. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2007. x, 331 pp. $60.00.
Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation: American Literature and Culture in the Gilded Age, 1876–1893. By Ben Railton. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. xii, 312 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 81(4): 836-838 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-049 [PDF]  

Joycelyn Moody

Hell without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative; Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African American Episcopal Church, 1865–1900; Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City
Hell without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative. By Yolanda Pierce. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2005. xii, 151 pp. $59.95.
Around the Family Altar: Domesticity in the African American Episcopal Church, 1865–1900. By Julius H. Bailey. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2005. xii, 151 pp. $59.95.
Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City. By Craig D. Townsend. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2005. xii, 242 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 81(4): 839-841 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-050 [PDF]  

Sean McCann

In the Company of Books: Literature and Its "Classes" in Nineteenth-Century America; Tolerable Entertainment: Herman Melville and Professionalism in Antebellum New York; Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875–1910
In the Company of Books: Literature and Its "Classes" in Nineteenth-Century America. By Sarah Wadsworth. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2006. viii, 278 pp. Paper, $24.95.
Tolerable Entertainment: Herman Melville and Professionalism in Antebellum New York. By John Evelev. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2006. xii, 232 pp. $34.95.
Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875–1910. By Claudia Stokes. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2006. xi, 241 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 81(4): 842-844 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-051 [PDF]  

Steven Belletto

Civic Myths: A Law-and-Literature Approach to Citizenship; A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government; Identity and the Failure of America: From Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror
Civic Myths: A Law-and-Literature Approach to Citizenship. By Brook Thomas. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. xiii, 298 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $21.95.
A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government. By Sean McCann. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2008. xiv, 248 pp. $35.00.
Identity and the Failure of America: From Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror. By John Michael. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2008. viii, 301 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50.
American Literature 81(4): 844-847 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-052 [PDF]  

Barbara Eckstein

Henry James: Women and Realism; Henry James and the Visual
Henry James: Women and Realism. By Victoria Coulson. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2007. ix, 240 pp. $95.00.
Henry James and the Visual. By Kendall Johnson. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2007. xv, 246 pp. $95.00.
American Literature 81(4): 847-849 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-053 [PDF]  

Stephanie A. Smith

One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870; Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis; The Novel and the Obscene: Sexual Subjects in American Modernism
One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870. By Karen Woods Weierman. x, 214 pp. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2005. $34.95.
Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis. By David R. Shumway. xi, 269 pp. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2003. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $22.00.
The Novel and the Obscene: Sexual Subjects in American Modernism. By Florence Dore. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2005. xii, 167 pp. $50.00.
American Literature 81(4): 849-851 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-054 [PDF]  

Daniel Chaskes

Ethnic Modernism; Modernism, Race, and Manifestos; Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development
Ethnic Modernism. By Werner Sollors. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 324 pp. Paper, $18.95.
Modernism, Race, and Manifestos. By Laura Winkiel. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2008. x, 242 pp. $99.00.
Apostles of Modernity: American Writers in the Age of Development. By Guy Reynolds. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2008. 268 pp. $50.00.
American Literature 81(4): 852-854 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-055 [PDF]  

Jed Rasula

Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film; Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present
Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film. By Susan McCabe. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. x, 284 pp. Cloth, $92.00; paper, $39.99.
Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present. By Lesley Wheeler. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2008. x, 235 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 81(4): 854-856 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-056 [PDF]  

Colbey Emmerson Reid

Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity; Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920–1950
Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity. By Kevin Bell. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2007. x, 252 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50.
Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920–1950. Ed. Claire A. Culleton and Karen Leick. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2008. vii, 269 pp. $74.95.
American Literature 81(4): 856-858 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-057 [PDF]  

Brad Evans

Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness; The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880–1940
Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness. By Matt Wray. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2006. 213 pp. Paper, $21.95.
The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880–1940. By Julian B. Carter. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2007. ix, 219 pp. Paper, $21.95.
American Literature 81(4): 859-861 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-058 [PDF]  

John Lowe

William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition; Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition
William Faulkner, William James, and the American Pragmatic Tradition. By David H. Evans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2008. ix, 289 pp. $40.00.
Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition. By Noel Polk. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2008. xii, 207 pp. $50.00.
American Literature 81(4): 861-863 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-059 [PDF]  

Lauren Coats

American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500–1900; Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000; Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space; Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas
American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500–1900. Ed. Martin Brückner and Hsuan L. Hsu. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press. 2007. 367 pp. $65.00.
Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000. By Eric Bulson. New York: Routledge. 2007. xi, 176 pp. $95.00.
Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space. Ed. Susan Kollin. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2007. xix, 267 pp. Cloth, $35.00; paper, $19.95.
Second Arrivals: Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas. By Sarah Phillips Casteel. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2007. x, 244 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $22.50.
American Literature 81(4): 863-866 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-060 [PDF]  

Martin Joseph Ponce

Queering Cold War Poetry: Ethics of Vulnerability in Cuba and the United States; Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions
Queering Cold War Poetry: Ethics of Vulnerability in Cuba and the United States. By Eric Keenaghan. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2009. x, 196 pp. $39.95.
Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions. By Michael D. Snediker. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2009. xi, 273 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00.
American Literature 81(4): 867-869 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-061 [PDF]  

Stephen Knadler

King's Dream; American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture
King's Dream. By Eric J. Sundquist. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2009. viii, 295 pp. $26.00.
American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture. By George Shulman. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2008. xii, 315 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00.
American Literature 81(4): 869-871 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-062 [PDF]  

Jane F. Thrailkill

Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture; Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo
Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture. By Lisa Woolfork. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2009. xi, 233 pp. $40.00.
Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo. By Robert Chodat. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2008. xi, 254 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 81(4): 871-873 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-063 [PDF]  

Michael A. Chaney

The Diasporan Self: Unbreaking the Circle in Western Black Novels; Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus
The Diasporan Self: Unbreaking the Circle in Western Black Novels. By J. Lee Greene. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2008. 257 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.50.
Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus. By Margo Natalie Crawford. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 200 pp. Cloth $55.95; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 81(4): 874-876 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-064 [PDF]  

James Applewhite

The West Side of Any Mountain: Place, Space, and Ecopoetry
The West Side of Any Mountain: Place, Space, and Ecopoetry. By J. Scott Bryson. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2005. 156 pp. $28.00.
American Literature 81(4): 876-877 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-065 [PDF]  

Anne Charles

The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice; Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias
The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice. By Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2006. x, 196 pp. Paper, $29.95.
Worlds Apart? Dualism and Transgression in Contemporary Female Dystopias. By Dunja M. Mohr. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2005. xi, 312 pp. Paper, $39.95.
American Literature 81(4): 877-879 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2009-066 [PDF]  

Other
American Literature 81(4): 881-890 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-81-4-881 [PDF]  

Other
American Literature 81(4): 891-893 (2009); DOI:10.1215/00029831-81-4-891 [PDF]  

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