^#smrgDERGİ American Literature - Number: 2 Vol: 74 June 2002

Contents

Susan Scheckel: Home On The Train: Race And Mobility In The Life And Adventures Of Nat Love

Jana Argersinger: Family Embraces: The Unholy Kiss And Authorial Relations In The Wide, Wide World

Pamela Lougheed: “Then Began He To Rant And Threaten”: Indian Malice And Individual Liberty In Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative

C. Leiren Mower: Bodies In Labor: Sole Proprietorship And The Labor Of Conduct The Coquette

Gillian Silverman: Textual Sentimentalism: Incest And Authorship In Pierre

Jeanne Elders DeWaard: “Indelicate Exposure”: Sentiment And Law In Fall River: An Authenic Narrative

Book Reviews

Laura Henigman: Colonial Transformations: The Cultural Production Of The New Atlantic World, 1580 - 1640 By Rebecca Ann Bach

Laura Henigman: The Story Of A: The Alphabetization Of America From “The New England Primer” To “The Scarlet Letter” By Patricia Crain

Laura Henigman: The Story Of A: The Alphabetization Of America From “The England Primer” To “The Scarlet Letter” By Patricia Crain

Laura Henigman: The Consent Of The Governed: The Lockean Legacy In Early American Culture By Gillian Brown

Julie Prebel: Return Passages: Great American Travel Writing, 1780 - 1910 By Larzer Ziff

Julie Prebel: Crossing Boundaries: Postmodern Travel Literature By Alison Russell

Barbara Ryan: American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, And Literature In The New Nation By Caleb Crain

Barbara Ryan: Not In Sisterhood: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, And The Politics Of Female Authorship By Deborah Lindsay Williams

Thomas Johnson: James Whitcomb Riley: A Life By Elizabeth J. Van Allen

John Clendenning: Stephen Crane's Blue Badge Of Courage By George Monteiro

John Clendening: The Material Unconscious: American Anusement, Stephen Crane, And The Economies Of Play By Bill Brown

Cindy Weinstein: Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, And Nineteenth - Century American Literature By Lori Merish

Peter Kvidera: Immigrant Minds, American Identities: Making The United States Home, 1870 - 1930 By Orm Overland

Laura Doyle: The Eye's Mind: Literary Modernism And Visual Culture By Karen Jacobs

Adam Hotek: Authentic Blackness: The Folk In The New Negro Renaissance By J. Martin Favor

Michael Thurston: Gunshoe America: Hard - Boiled Crime Fiction And The Rise And Fall Of New Deal Liberalism By Sean McCann

Michael Thurston: Gunshoe America: Hard - Boiled Crime Fiction And The Rise And Fall Of New Deal Liberalism By Sean McCann

Michael Thurston: New Deal Modernism: American Literature And The Invention Of The Welfare State By Michael Szalay

Terence Martin: Queer Burroghts By Jamie Russell

Stephen Knadler: Literatures Of Memory: History, Time And Space In Postwar Writing By Peter Middleton And Tim Woods

Josephine Lee: Asian - American: Historical Crossings Of A Racial Frontier By David Palumbo - Liu

Josephine Lee: The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism And Asian American Identity By Sheng - mei Ma

Anitia Plath Helle: Career Moves: Olson, Creely, Zukofsky, Berrigan, And The American Avant - Garde By Libbie Rifkin

Anita Plath Helle: Leaving Lines Of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy Of Language Writing By Ann Vickery

Anita Plath Helle: The Language Of Inquiry By Lyn Hejinian

Cornelius Browne: American Literary Environmentalism By David Mazel

Adam Sweeting: Writing For An Endangered World: Literature, Culture, And Environment In The U. S. And Beyond By Lawrence Buell

Melissa Solomon - Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts And The Politics Of The Paraliterary By Samuel R. Delany

Theodore A. Coe - Trash Culture: Popular Culture And The Great Tradition By Richard Keller Simon

Nina Baym - Beautiful Work: A Meditation On Pain By Sharon Cameron

Nina Baym: Dreaming By The Book By Elaine Scarry

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