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Volume 79, Issue 4
December 1, 2007
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ISSN 0002-9831
EISSN 1527-2117
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Democratic Representations: Puffery and the Antebellum Print Explosion
Lara Langer Cohen
View articletitled, Democratic Representations: Puffery and the Antebellum Print Explosion
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Sensationalizing Patriotism: Sutton Griggs and the Sentimental Nationalism of Citizen Tom
Stephen Knadler
View articletitled, Sensationalizing Patriotism: Sutton Griggs and the Sentimental Nationalism of Citizen Tom
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Little Brothers of the Rich: Queer Families in the Gilded Age
Stephanie Foote
View articletitled, Little Brothers of the Rich: Queer Families in the Gilded Age
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Edith Wharton's Alchemy of Publicity
Lorna Brittan
View articletitled, Edith Wharton's Alchemy of Publicity
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The (Extended) South of Black Folk: Intraregional and Transnational Migrant Labor in Jonah's Gourd Vine and Their Eyes Were Watching God
Martyn Bone
View articletitled, The (Extended) South of Black Folk: Intraregional and Transnational Migrant Labor in <em>Jonah's Gourd Vine</em> and <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God</em>
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Frank O'Hara Nude with Boots: Queer Ekphrasis and the Statuesque Poet
Brian Glavey
View articletitled, Frank O'Hara Nude with Boots: Queer Ekphrasis and the Statuesque Poet
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Review Essay

Poetry Criticism after the Narrative Turn
Tony Tost
View articletitled, Poetry Criticism after the Narrative Turn
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Book Reviews

Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America; Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America
Lance Newman
View articletitled, Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America; Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America
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The Kentucky Tragedy: A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America; The Spectacle of Death: Populist Literary Responses to American Capital Cases; Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American Literature, 1852-1867
Dawn Keetley
View articletitled, The Kentucky Tragedy: A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America; The Spectacle of Death: Populist Literary Responses to American Capital Cases; Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American Literature, 1852-1867
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The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence; Love, Wages, Slavery: The Literature of Servitude in the United States
Jeannine Marie DeLombard
View articletitled, The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence; Love, Wages, Slavery: The Literature of Servitude in the United States
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Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South; American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869
Jennifer Greeson
View articletitled, Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South; American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869
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Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle; Poe, Fuller, and the Mesmeric Arts: Transition States in the American Renaissance
Hugh Egan
View articletitled, Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle; Poe, Fuller, and the Mesmeric Arts: Transition States in the American Renaissance
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The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity; Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism: Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement; Performance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts
Sean Metzger
View articletitled, The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity; Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism: Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement; Performance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts
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Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction; The March of Spare Time: The Problem and Promise of Leisure in the Great Depression; The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work
Claudia Stokes
View articletitled, Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction; The March of Spare Time: The Problem and Promise of Leisure in the Great Depression; The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work
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Lynching in the West, 1850-1935; A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature
Koritha Mitchell
View articletitled, Lynching in the West, 1850-1935; A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature
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At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing; Demonic Grounds: Black Women and The Cartographies of Struggle
Cynthia Young
View articletitled, At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing; Demonic Grounds: Black Women and The Cartographies of Struggle
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The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor; Incorporations: Race, Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital
Jodi Melamed
View articletitled, The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor; Incorporations: Race, Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital
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Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction; Re-Forming the Past: History, the Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative
Mary Paniccia Carden
View articletitled, Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction; Re-Forming the Past: History, the Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative
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Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880-1930; The Female Investigator in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
Sari Edelstein
View articletitled, Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880-1930; The Female Investigator in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
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American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America; Model-Minority Imperialism
Josephine Nock-Hee Park
View articletitled, American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America; Model-Minority Imperialism
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The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas; Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form
Allen Hibbard
View articletitled, The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas; Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form
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Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s; Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity; Mocking the Age: The Later Novels of Philip Roth
Sarah Eden Schiff
View articletitled, Telling the Little Secrets: American Jewish Writing since the 1980s; Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity; Mocking the Age: The Later Novels of Philip Roth
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The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland; Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern Writing; How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia
Philip Joseph
View articletitled, The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland; Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern Writing; How They Shine: Melungeon Characters in the Fiction of Appalachia
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Straight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of Heterosexuality in Literature; Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” (Series Q); Queer Gothic
Mark Fulk
View articletitled, Straight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of Heterosexuality in Literature; Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” (Series Q); Queer Gothic
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Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics; Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing; Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature
Joel Dinerstein
View articletitled, Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics; Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing; Swinging the Vernacular: Jazz and African American Modernist Literature
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Brief Mention

Brief Mention
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Announcement

Announcement
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Erratum

Erratum
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