... for materializing words: pen, ink, and paper. Just as wampum is more than a cultural artifact, alphabetic script is not simply a record of facts. Both are documentary media and forms of literacy—one printed, one beaded and strung.4 Each emerges out of distinct cultural and textual contexts...

...- siderations His strategy for sidestepping this theoretical trap is to scrutinize intensely the letters and reviews written by Poe and his colleagues. Not un- like Poe’s fastidious detective Dupin, Whalen combs the historical record...

...,” committed to skeptical distance. Beyond its critical interven- tions, the book has immense value for the multimodal classroom. As archives such as PennSound continue to make audio recordings a central part of liter- ary discussion, Allison provides an exceptional model for close listening. However...

... critically reexamine the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and female citizen formation. Undergirding Wright’s and Sentilles’s studies of nineteenth-century girlhood is a shared emphasis on the kinds of stories that can emerge between the literary and nonliterary, between historical record and...