Key to Abbreviations

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

Acts of Narrative / Carol Jacobs and Henry Sussman, eds., Acts of Narrative (Stanford)

Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd / Mary Esteve, The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature (Cambridge)

All Poets Welcome / Daniel Kane, All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene (Calif.)

America and the Mediterranean / Massimo Bacigalupo and Pierangelo Castagneto, eds., America and the Mediterranean (Torino: Otto)

American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard / Robert McClure Smith and Ellen M. Weinauer, eds., American Culture, Canons, and the Case of Elizabeth Stoddard (Alabama)

American Lazarus / Joanna Brooks, American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures (Oxford)

American Writers Classics / Jay Parini, ed., American Writers Classics, vol. 1 (Gale)

America's God / Mark A. Noll, America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford)

Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction / Diane Long Hoeveler and Tamar Heller, eds., Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and American Traditions (MLA)

Authority and Reform / Mark G. Vásquez, Authority and Freedom: Religious and Educational Discourses in Nineteenth Century New England Literature (Tennessee)

Beneath the Second Sun / Adam Sweeting, Beneath the Second Son: A Cultural History of Indian Summer (New Hampshire)

Black, White, and in Color / Hortense J. Spillers, Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture (Chicago)

Blood Talk / Susan Gillman, Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult (Chicago)

Civil Wars / Susan Goodman, Civil Wars: American Novelists and Manners, 1880-1940 (Hopkins)

Critical Fictions / Joseph Fichtelberg, Critical Fictions: Sentiment and the American Market, 1780-1870 (Georgia)

Crossing Cultures / Judith Oster, Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and Jewish American Literature (Missouri)

Cruising Modernism / Michael Trask, Cruising Modernism: Class and Sexuality in American Literature and Social Thought (Cornell)

Doubled Plots / Susan Strehle and Mary Patricia Carden, eds., Doubled Plots: Romance and History (Miss.)

Faulkner in the Twenty-First Century / Robert W. Hamblin and Ann J. Abadie, eds., Faulkner in the Twenty-First Century: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2000 (Alabama)

Fitzgerald in the Twenty-First Century / Jackson R. Bryer, Ruth Prigozy, and Milton R. Stern, eds., F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Twenty First Century (Alabama)

Gothic Passages / Justin D. Edwards, Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic (Iowa)

Hearts of Darkness / Bertram Wyatt Brown, Hearts of Darkness: The Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition (LSU)

Henry James and Queer Modernity / Eric Haralson, Henry James and Queer Modernity (Cambridge)

In a Time of Disorder / Jeffrey J. Folks, In a Time of Disorder: Form and Meaning in Southern Fiction from Poe to O'Connor (Peter Lang)

Incest / Elizabeth Barnes, ed., Incest and the Literary Imagination (Florida)

Invention of Native American Literature / Robert Dale Parker, The Invention of Native American Literature (Cornell)

Male Sexuality Under Surveillance / Graham Thompson, Male Sexuality Under Surveillance: The Office in American Literature (Iowa)

Messy Beginnings / Malini Johar Schueller and Edward Watts, eds., Messy Beginnings: Postcolonality and Early American Studies (Rutgers)

Mortal Remains / Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein, eds. Mortal Remains: Death in Early America (Penn.)

Mulattas and Mestizas / Suzanne Bost, Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000 (Georgia)

Nature Boys / Mike Perkovich, Nature Boys: Camp Discourse in American Literature from Whitman to Wharton (Peter Lang)

New England as Poetic Landscape / Astrid Galbraith, New England as Poetic Landscape (Peter Lang)

Paternalism Incorporated / David Leverenz, Paternalism Incorporated: Fables of American Fatherhood, 1865-1940 (Cornell)

Poetics of National and Racial Identity / John Kerkering, The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge)

Poets in the Public Sphere / Paula Bernat Bennett, Poets in the Public [End Page -xi] Sphere: The Emancipatory Project of American Women's Poetry 1800-1900 (Princeton)

Practical Ecocriticism / Glen A. Love, Practical Ecocriticism: Literature, Biology, and the Environment (Virginia)

Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature / Michele Birnbaum, Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930 (Cambridge)

Realism and Its Discontents / Danuta Fjellestad and Elizabeth Kella, eds., Realism and Its Discontents (Karlskrona, Sweden: Blekinge Institute of Technology)

Reconstituting the American Renaissance / Jay Grossman, Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation (Duke)

Recovering the New / Edward...