Key to Abbreviations

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

African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition / Tracey L. Walters, African American Literature and the Classicist Tradition: Black Women Writers from Wheatley to Morrison (Palgrave)

American Elegy / Max Cavitch, American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman (Minnesota)

American Literary Geographies / Martin Brückner and Hsuan L. Hsu, eds., American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production 1500–1900 (Delaware)

American Literary Regionalism / Philip Joseph, American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age (LSU)

American Narratives / Molly Crumpton Winter, American Narratives: Multiethnic Writing in the Age of Realism (LSU)

American Talmud / Ezra Cappell, American Talmud: The Cultural Work of Jewish American Fiction (SUNY)

America's Gothic Fiction / Dorothy Z. Baker, America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana (Ohio State)

At the Brink of Infinity / James E. von der Heydt, At the Brink of Infinity: Poetic Humility in Boundless American Space (Iowa)

Back to Peace / Usandizaga Aránzazu and Andrew Monnickendam, eds., Back to Peace: Reconciliation and Retribution in the Postwar Period (Notre Dame)

Calvinist Humor / Michael Dunne, Calvinist Humor in American Literature (LSU)

Cambridge Companion to Harlem Renaissance / George Hutchinson, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance (Cambridge)

Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry / Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry (Cambridge)

Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel / Morag Shiach, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel (Cambridge)

Civic Myths / Brook Thomas, Civic Myths: A Law-and-Literature Approach to Citizenship (No. Car.)

Commerce in Color / James C. Davis, Commerce in Color: Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893–1933 (Michigan)

Complicating Constructions / David S. Goldstein and Audrey B. Thacker, eds., Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts (Washington)

Days of Large Things / Michael Tavel Clarke, These Days of Large Things: The Culture of Size in America, 1865–1930 (Michigan)

Deans and Truants / Gene Andrew Jarrett, Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature (Penn.)

Desire, Violence, and Divinity / Gary M. Ciuba, Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy (LSU)

Entertaining the Nation / Tice L. Miller, Entertaining the Nation: American Drama in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (So. Ill.)

Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the 19th Century / Theo Davis, Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge)

Freak Shows in the Modern American Imagination / Thomas Fahy, Freak Shows in the Modern American Imagination: Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote (Palgrave)

Freedom Bought with Blood / Jennifer C. James, A Freedom Bought with Blood: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II (No. Car.)

Gay Men in Modern Southern Literature / William Mark Poteet, Gay Men in Modern Southern Literature: Ritual, Initiation, and the Construct of Masculinity (Peter Lang)

"Good Observers of Nature" / Tina Gianquitto, "Good Observers of Nature": American Women and the Scientific Study of the Natural World, 1820–1885 (Georgia)

Harlem Crossroads / Sara Blair, Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century (Princeton)

Henry James, Women and Realism / Victoria Coulson, Henry James, Women and Realism (Cambridge)

Impersonality / Sharon Cameron, Impersonality: Seven Essays (Chicago)

Importance of Feeling English / Leonard Tennenhouse, The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750–1850 (Princeton)

Institutions of Reading / Thomas Augst and Kenneth Carpenter, eds., Institutions of Reading: The Social Life of Libraries in the United States (Mass.)

Interrogating America Through Theatre and Performance / William W. Demastes and Iris Smith Fischer, eds., Interrogating America Through Theatre and Performance (Palgrave)

Interrogating Interstices / Andrew Hock Soon Ng, Interrogating Interstices: Gothic Aesthetics in Postcolonial Asian and Asian American Literature (Peter Lang)

Inventing Black Women / Ajuan Maria Mance, Inventing Black Women: African American Women Poets and Self-Representation, 1877–2000 (Tenn.)

Joel Barlow's "Columbiad" / Steven Blakemore, Joel Barlow's "Columbiad": A Bicentennial Reading (Tenn.)

Just Below South / Jessica Adams, Michael P. Bibler, and Cécile Accilien, eds., Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the U.S. South (Virginia)

Liberty! / David S. Shields and Mariselle Meléndez, eds...