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  1. "Let Her White Progeny Offset Her Dark One": The Child and the Racial Politics of Nation Making
  2. Caroline Field Levander
  3. pp. 221-246
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  1. The Specter of Wall Street: "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and the Language of Commodities
  2. Naomi C. Reed
  3. pp. 247-273
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  1. "The Housetop Sea": Cityscape Verse and the Rise of Modern American Poetry
  2. John Timberman Newcomb
  3. pp. 275-306
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  1. Engineering Womanhood: The Politics of Rejuvenation in Gertrude Atherton's Black Oxen
  2. Julie Prebel
  3. pp. 307-337
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  1. Coming Out through History's Hidden Love Letters in Absalom, Absalom!
  2. Norman W. Jones
  3. pp. 339-366
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  1. Howl and Other Poems : Is There Old Left in These New Beats?
  2. Ben Lee
  3. pp. 367-389
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  1. Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth, and: Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-Reliance, and: Emerson (review)
  2. Lance Newman
  3. pp. 391-393
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  1. Critical Fictions: Sentiment and the American Market, 1780-1870, and: Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States (review)
  2. Glenn Hendler
  3. pp. 394-396
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  1. Barbaric Intercourse: Caricature and the Culture of Conduct, 1841-1936 (review)
  2. Shawn Michelle Smith
  3. pp. 396-397
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  1. American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853, and: Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies (review)
  2. Melissa J. Homestead
  3. pp. 398-400
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  1. Material Modernism: The Politics of the Page, and: Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924 (review)
  2. Robert L. Caserio
  3. pp. 400-402
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  1. Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth, and: All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s (review)
  2. Milette Shamir
  3. pp. 402-404
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  1. The Invention of Native American Literature, and: Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts (review)
  2. Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
  3. pp. 405-407
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  1. Boricua Literature: A Literary History of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, and: The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherrie Moraga (review)
  2. Ariana Vigil
  3. pp. 407-409
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  1. The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America, and: Reader of the Purple Sage: Essays on Western Writers and Environmental Literature (review)
  2. Michael Lundblad
  3. pp. 409-411
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  1. Brief Mention
  3. pp. 413-421
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