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

American Georgics / Timothy Sweet, American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature (Penn.)
American Women of Letters / Nina Baym, American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences: Styles of Aliation (Rutgers)
Beyond the Color Line / Kate A. Baldwin, Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters Between Black and Red, 1922-1963 (Duke)
Border Modernism / Christopher Schedler, Border Modernism: Intercultural Readings in American Literary Modernism (Routledge)
Constructing the Black Masculine / Maurice O. Wallace, Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men's Literature and Culture, 1775-1995 (Duke)
Disability Studies / Sharon L. Snyder et al., eds., Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (MLA)
Faulkner and Postmodernism / John N. Duvall and Ann J. Abadie, eds., Faulkner and Postmodernism: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1999 (Miss.)
The Figure of Consciousness / Jill M. Kress, The Figure of Consciousness: William James, Henry James, and Edith Wharton (Routledge)
Fleshing Out America / Carolyn Sorisio, Fleshing Out America: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Body in American Literature, 1833-1879 (Georgia)
The Greening of Literary Scholarship / Steven Rosendale, ed., The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment (Iowa)
The Idea and the Thing in Modernist American Poetry / Cristina Giorcelli, ed., The Idea and the Thing in Modernist American Poetry (Palermo: ILA Palma, 2001)
The Image of the Outsider / Will Wright and Steven Kaplan, eds., The Image of the Outsider in Literature, Media, and Society (Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social [End Page ix] Imagery, Univ. of Southern Colorado)
Influencing America's Tastes / Stephanie Lewis Thompson, Influencing America's Tastes: Realism in the Works of Wharton, Cather and Hurst (Florida)
Literature and Racial Ambiguity / Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks, eds., Literature and Racial Ambiguity (Rodopi)
Marriage, Violence, and the Nation / William R. Handley, Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West (Cambridge)
No More Separate Spheres / Cathy N. Davidson and Jessamyn Hatcher, eds., No More Separate Spheres!: A Next Wave American Studies Reader (Duke)
The Poetics of Enclosure / Lesley Wheeler, The Poetics of Enclosure: American Women Poets from Dickinson to Dove (Tennessee)
Poetry in the Museums of Modernism / Catherine E. Paul, Poetry in the Museums of Modernism: Yeats, Pound, Moore, Stein (Michigan)
Postmodernity and Cross-Culturalism / Yoshinobu Hakutani, ed., Postmodernity and Cross-Culturalism (Fairleigh Dickinson)
Professing Rhetoric / Frederick J. Antczak and Cinda Coggins, eds., Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers from the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference (Erlbaum)
Reading Rape / Sabine Sielke, Reading Rape: The Rhetoric of Sexual Violence in American Literature and Culture, 1790-1990 (Princeton)
Roman Holidays / Robert K. Martin and Leland S. Person, eds., Roman Holidays: American Writers and Artists in Nineteenth-Century Italy (Iowa)
Romantic Cyborgs / Klaus Benesch, Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance (Mass.)
Seers and Judges / Christine Dunn Henderson, ed., Seers and Judges: American Literature as Political Philosophy (Lexington Books)
Songs of the Reconstructing South / Suzanne Disheroon-Green and Lisa Abney, eds., Songs of the Reconstructing South: Building Literary Louisiana, 1865-1945 (Greenwood)
Special Relationships / Janet Beer and Bridget Bennett, eds., Special Relationships: Anglo-American Antagonisms and Anities, 1854-1936 (Manchester)
Such News of the Land / Thomas S. Edwards and Elizabeth A. De Wolfe, eds., Such News of the Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers (New England, 2001)
Sympathy in American Literature / Kristin Boudreau, Sympathy in American Literature: American Sentiments from Jefferson to the Jameses (Florida)
Traces of Gold / Nicolas S. Witschi, Traces of Gold: California's Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature (Alabama)
Tradition and the Poetics of Self / Barbara Garlick, ed., Tradition and the Poetics of Self in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry (Rodopi)
Truth Stranger Than Fiction / Augusta [End Page x] Rohrbach, Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary Marketplace (Palgrave)
Virtual Americas / Paul Giles, Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary (Duke)
The Word Rides Again / J. David Stevens, The Word Rides Again: Re-reading the Frontier in American Fiction (Ohio)
Working the Garden / William Conlogue, Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture (No. Car., 2001)
Writing Together, Writing Apart / Linda K. Karell, Writing Together, Writing Apart: Collaboration in...

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