Key to Abbreviations

Festschriften, Essay Collections, and Books Discussed in More Than One Chapter

The American Play / Marc Robinson, The American Play: 1787-2000 (Yale)

American Writers in Istanbul / Kim Fortuny, American Writers in Istanbul (Syracuse)

Ashes of the Mind / Martin Griffin, Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865-1900 (Mass.)

Becoming Cajun, Becoming American / Maria Hebert-Leiter, Becoming Cajun, Becoming American: The Acadian in American Literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke (LSU)

Boys at Home / Ken Parille, Boys at Home: Discipline, Masculinity, and "The Boy Problem" in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Tenn.)

Capital Letters / David Dowling, Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market (Iowa)

Creating the John Brown Legend / Janet Kemper Beck, Creating the John Brown Legend: Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Child, and Higginson in Defense of the Raid on Harper's Ferry (McFarland)

Crisscrossing Borders / Reginald Dyck and Cheli Reutter, eds., Crisscrossing Borders in Literature of the American West (Palgrave)

Culinary Aesthetics and Practices / Monika Elbert and Marie Drews, eds., Culinary Aesthetics and Practices in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Palgrave)

Flawed Light / Brett C. Millier, Flawed Light: American Women Poets and Alcohol (Illinois)

Frantic Panoramas / Nancy Bentley, Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920 (Penn.)

Gothic to Multicultural / A. Robert Lee, Gothic to Multicultural: Idioms of Imagining in American Literary Fiction (Rodopi)

Imaginary Friends / James Emmett Ryan, Imaginary Friends: Representing Quakers in American Culture, 1650-1950 (Wisconsin)

In the Way of Nature / Robert Boschman, In the Way of Nature: Ecology and Westward Expansion in the Poetry of Anne Bradstreet, Elizabeth Bishop, and Amy Clampitt (McFarland)

A Jury of Her Peers / Elaine Showalter, A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx (Knopf)

Letters and Cultural Transformations / Theresa Strouth Gaul and Sharon M. Harris, eds., Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860 (Ashgate)

Licentious Gotham / Donna Dennis, Licentious Gotham: Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York (Harvard)

Literature of New York / Sabrina Fuchs-Abrams, ed., Literature of New York (Cambridge Scholars)

Manly Love / Axel Nissen, Manly Love: Romantic Friendship in American Fiction (Chicago)

Misery's Mathematics / Peter Balaam, Misery's Mathematics: Mourning, Compensation, and Reality in Antebellum American Literature (Routledge)

Modern American Grotesque / James Goodwin, Modern American Grotesque: Literature and Photography (Ohio State)

New Directions in American Reception Study / Philip Goldstein et al., eds., New Directions in American Reception Study (Oxford, 2008)

A New Literary History of America / Greil Marcus and Werner Sollers, eds., A New Literary History of America (Harvard)

Passions for Nature / Rochelle Johnson, Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America's Aesthetics of Alienation (Georgia)

Post-National Enquiries / Jopi Nyman, ed., Post-National Enquiries: Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings (Cambridge Scholars)

The Power of Negative Thinking / Benjamin Schreier, The Power of Negative Thinking: Cynicism and the History of Modern American Literature (Virginia)

Print in Motion / Carl F. Kaestle and Janice A. Radway, eds., Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940 (No. Car.)

Prospects for the Study of American Literature / Richard Kopley and Barbara Cantalupo, eds., Prospects for the Study of American Literature II (AMS)

Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture / Stephen Paul Miller and Daniel Morris, eds., Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture (Alabama)

The Scene of Harlem Cabaret / Shane Vogel, The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance (Chicago)

Shades of Green / Ian Frederick Finseth, Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770-1860 (Georgia)

Standards of Value / Michael Germana, Standards of Value: Money, Race, and Literature in America (Iowa)

Uncommon Women / Laura Laffrado, Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing (Ohio State)

Visions of Global America / Daniel T. O'Hara, Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading (Ohio State)

Wielding the Pen / Anne E. Boyd, Wielding the Pen: Writings on Authorship by American Women of the Nineteenth Century (Hopkins)

The Word and Its Witness / Gregory S. Jackson, The Word and Its Witness: The Spiritualization of American Realism (Chicago)

Periodicals, Annuals, and Series

AAR / African American Review

AI / American Imago

AJ / Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Journal

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