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Volume 92, Issue 2

1 June 2020

ISSN 0002-9831

EISSN 1527-2117

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Essays

Writing with Pencils in the Antebellum United States: Language, Instrument, Gesture

Blake Bronson-Bartlett

Postcritical Howells: American Realism and Liberal Guilt

Henry B. Wonham

Readerly Revisions: Letters to the Editor in the Crisis

William Reed Quinn

Rehearsing for Reconstruction: The Archipelagic Afterlives of the Port Royal Experiment

Todd Carmody

Lost Archives, Lost Lands: Rereading New Mexico’s Imagined Environments

Carlos Alonso Nugent

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Rights in a Time of Crisis

Edward Sugden

Comics Grow Up

Gerry Canavan

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

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

A History of the African American Novel
African American Writing: A Literary Approach

Christopher Brown

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

Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
Precious Perversions: Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon

Michael P. Bibler

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

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

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

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

Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture
American Guides: The Federal Writers’ Project and the Casting of American Culture

Joel Pfister

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

The Practices of Hope: Literary Criticism in Disenchanted Times
Nightmare Envy and Other Stories: American Culture and European Reconstruction

Simon Stow

Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America
History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s

John Gennari

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

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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Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization

Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans
Building Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning
The Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition

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