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Volume 81, Issue 2

June 2009

ISSN 0002-9831

EISSN 1527-2117

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Probably Poe

Maurice S. Lee

Whitman's Atom and the Crisis of Materiality in the Early Leaves of Grass

Mark Noble

Reading Democratically: Pedagogies of Difference and Practices of Listening in The House of Mirth and Passing

Nick Bromell

CUT!... Flannery O'Connor's Apotemnophiliac Allegories

David H. Evans

Marking Time in Native America: Haiku, Elegy, Survival

Karen Jackson Ford

Ghosts of Essentialism: Racial Memory as Epistemological Claim

John J. Su

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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

Philip Gould

Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature; The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Eden Osucha

Kate Field: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century American Journalist; Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science: An Astronomer among the American Romantics

Melissa J. Homestead

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

Jason Stacy

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

Michael Nowlin

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.”

Susan Belasco

American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840–1945; Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870–1930

Michael Robertson

The Emergence of Mexican America: Recovering Stories of Mexican Peoplehood in U.S. Culture; The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary

Marissa López

Feeling Modern: The Eccentricities of Public Life; Intimacies; The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

Peter Coviello

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

Theo Hummer

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

John Ernest

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

Susan Rosenbaum

The Spaces of Violence; The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature

Mark Fulk

Beyond Literary Chinatown; The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene

Christine So

Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction; Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land

Michelle Balaev

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