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Volume 92, Issue 2
June 1, 2020
American Literature Cover Image for Volume 92, Issue 2
ISSN 0002-9831
EISSN 1527-2117
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Writing with Pencils in the Antebellum United States: Language, Instrument, Gesture
Blake Bronson-Bartlett
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Postcritical Howells: American Realism and Liberal Guilt
Henry B. Wonham
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Readerly Revisions: Letters to the Editor in the Crisis
William Reed Quinn
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Rehearsing for Reconstruction: The Archipelagic Afterlives of the Port Royal Experiment
Todd Carmody
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Lost Archives, Lost Lands: Rereading New Mexico’s Imagined Environments
Carlos Alonso Nugent
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Books

Review Essays
Rights in a Time of Crisis
Edward Sugden
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Comics Grow Up
Gerry Canavan
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Reviews
American Niceness: A Cultural History
Mania for Freedom: American Literatures of Enthusiasm from the Revolution to the Civil War
The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century
Cynthia J. Davis
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The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture: Muslim Sources from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination
Sacraments of Memory: Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature
The Pragmatist Turn: Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature
Kenyon Gradert
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A History of the African American Novel
African American Writing: A Literary Approach
Christopher Brown
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Sensational Internationalism: The Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth Century
American Imperialism’s Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism
William J. Maxwell
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Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
Precious Perversions: Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon
Michael P. Bibler
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The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous
Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Narratology beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life
Christopher Breu
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The New Middle Kingdom: China and the Early American Romance of Free Trade
East-West Exchange and Late Modernism: Williams, Moore, Pound
Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America
Ryanson Alessandro Ku
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Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895–1941
Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature
Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative
Rebecca Evans
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Deafening Modernism: Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature
Blasphemous Modernism: The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh
Transatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America
Susan Rosenbaum
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Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture
American Guides: The Federal Writers’ Project and the Casting of American Culture
Joel Pfister
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The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats
Women Writers of the Beat Era: Autobiography and Intertextuality
World Beats: Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature
Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory
Christopher Gair
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The Practices of Hope: Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times
Nightmare Envy and Other Stories: American Culture and European Reconstruction
Simon Stow
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Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America
History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s
John Gennari
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Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation
Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins
Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say about Their Lives
Lisa Diedrich
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Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll
The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll
“Do You Have A Band?”: Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City
Matthew D. Sutton
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Brief Mention

Brief Mention
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Announcements

Announcements
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