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Essays

  1. Some Glittering Nondescript Vertebrate: The Provocative Style of Realism in Howells’ A Hazard of New Fortunes
  2. Michelle Kohler
  3. pp. 189-209
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  1. The Sacrificial Enterprise: Negotiating Mutilation in W. D. Howells’ A Hazard of New Fortunes
  2. Joseph Darda
  3. pp. 210-229
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  1. Beyond “Bitter”: Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition
  2. Sydney Bufkin
  3. pp. 230-250
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  1. Rebecca Harding Davis and the Troubled Conclusion
  2. Emily Dolan
  3. pp. 251-267
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Note

  1. Mark Twain’s First Report of the 1865 San Francisco Earthquake: A Recovered Document
  2. Gary Scharnhorst
  3. pp. 268-270
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Reviews

  1. The Cambridge History of the American Novel ed. by Leonard Cassuto, Clare Virginia Eby, and Benjamin Riess (review)
  2. Jeanne Campbell Reesman
  3. pp. 271-273
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  1. Mark Twain and Male Friendship: The Twichell, Howells, and Rogers Friendships by Peter Messent, and: The Jester and the Sages: Mark Twain in Conversation with Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx by Forrest G. Robinson, Gabriel Noah Brahm, Jr., and Catherine Carlstroem (review)
  2. Lawrence Howe
  3. pp. 273-276
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  1. Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy: A Documentary Volume ed. by Donald Pizer (review)
  2. Jerome Loving
  3. pp. 276-278
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  1. Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 by Nina Baym (review)
  2. Cindy Murillo
  3. pp. 278-279
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  1. The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion by John Cullen Gruesser (review)
  2. Susan K. Harris
  3. pp. 279-280
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  1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851–1911 by Barbara Hochman (review)
  2. Debra J. Rosenthal
  3. pp. 281-282
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