Articles

Nancy Glazener

Benjamin Franklin and the Limits of Secular Civil Society
American Literature 80(2): 203-231 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-001 [PDF]  

David M. Stewart

Consuming George Thompson
American Literature 80(2): 233-263 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-002 [PDF]  

Dawn Coleman

The Unsentimental Woman Preacher of Uncle Tom's Cabin
American Literature 80(2): 265-292 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-003 [PDF]  

Sean X. Goudie

Toward a Definition of Caribbean American Regionalism: Contesting Anglo-America's Caribbean Designs in Mary Seacole and Sui Sin Far
American Literature 80(2): 293-322 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-004 [PDF]  

Katy Chiles

Within and without Raced Nations: Intratextuality, Martin Delany, and Blake; or the Huts of America
American Literature 80(2): 323-352 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-005 [PDF]  

Cristanne Miller

Distrusting: Marianne Moore on Feeling and War in the 1940s
American Literature 80(2): 353-379 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-006 [PDF]  

Cynthia Tolentino

In the "Training Center of the Skillful Servants of Mankind": Carlos Bulosan's Professional Filipinos in an Age of Benevolent Supremacy
American Literature 80(2): 381-406 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-007 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Jeannine Marie DeLombard

By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority; Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois
By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority. By Holly Brewer. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2005. xi, 390 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $24.95.
Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois. By Caroline F. Levander. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2006. x, 247 pp. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $21.95.
American Literature 80(2): 407-409 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-008 [PDF]  

Melanie R. Benson

Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty; Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner's Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York
Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty. By Barbara Ladd. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2007. viii, 175 pp. $40.00.
Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner's Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York. By Adam Gussow. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press. 2007. xix, pp. $30.00.
American Literature 80(2): 409-411 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-009 [PDF]  

David Tomkins

Hart Crane: After His Lights; Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie; Art and Memory in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop
Hart Crane: After His Lights. By Brian M. Reed. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2006. x, 295 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $35.00.
Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie. By Lytle Shaw. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2006. x, 332 pp. $39.95.
Art and Memory in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop. By Jonathan Ellis. Hampshire, Eng.: Ashgate. 2006. viii, 208 pp. $89.95.
American Literature 80(2): 411-414 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-010 [PDF]  

Thomas W. Devine

Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s; Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture
Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s. By James Gilbert. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. x, 269 pp. $39.00.
Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture By Rachel Devlin. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2005. ix, 257 pp.a Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 80(2): 414-416 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-011 [PDF]  

Michael A. Elliott

Public Native America: Tribal Self-Representation in Museums, Powwows, and Casinos; Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction; Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief; Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
Public Native America: Tribal Self-Representation in Museums, Powwows, and Casinos. By Mary Lawlor. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2006. xii, 234 pp. Cloth, $68.00; paper, $22.95.
Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction. By Annette Trefzer. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. xii, 223 pp. $38.50.
Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief. By David Murray. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. 213 pp. $59.95.
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country. Ed. Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2006. xx, 364 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95.
American Literature 80(2): 416-419 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-012 [PDF]  

Ralph Rodriguez

Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity; With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians; "Shakin' Up" Race and Gender: Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965–1995)
Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity. By Frederick Luis Aldama. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2005. 176 pp. Paper, $19.95.
With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians. By Catrióna Rueda Esquibel. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2006. xvi, 245 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95.
"Shakin' Up" Race and Gender: Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965–1995). By Marta E. Sánchez. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2005. vi, 202 pp. Paper, $19.95.
American Literature 80(2): 419-422 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-013 [PDF]  

Joseph Helminski

Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture; Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature; Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America
Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture. By Carlyle Van Thompson. New York: Peter Lang. 2006. xiii, 231 pp. Paper, $29.95.
Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature. By Gene Andrew Jarrett. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. 223 pp. $47.50.
Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America. By Bambi Haggins. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2007. x, 274 pp. Cloth, $68.00; paper, $23.95.
American Literature 80(2): 422-424 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-014 [PDF]  

Taylor Hagood

Inventing Black Women: African American Women Poets and Self-Representation, 1877–2000; Writing the Roaming Subject: The Biotext in Canadian Literature
Inventing Black Women: African American Women Poets and Self-Representation, 1877–2000. By Ajuan Maria Mance. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press. 2007. x, 202 pp. $36.00.
Writing the Roaming Subject: The Biotext in Canadian Literature. By Joanne Saul. Toronto, Ont.: Univ. of Toronto Press. 2006. viii, 175 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 80(2): 425-426 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-015 [PDF]  

Allen Hibbard

Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature; Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform; Henry James Goes to Paris; Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time
Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature. By Paul Giles. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Univ. Press. 2006. xii, 419 pp. $115.00.
Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform. By Leslie Butler. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. xv, 381 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95.
Henry James Goes to Paris. By Peter Brooks. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2007. 255 pp. $24.95.
Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time. By Wai Chee Dimock. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2006. 264 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 80(2): 427-430 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-016 [PDF]  

Brief Mention

Brief Mention
American Literature 80(2): 431-440 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-80-2-431 [PDF]  

Erratum

Erratum
American Literature 80(2): 441 (2008); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2008-017 [PDF]  

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