In this Issue

Table of Contents

Brief Mention

pp. 835-843
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Articles

Judging Jurisdictions: Geography and Race in Slave Law and Literature of the 1830s

Christine Macdonald
pp. 625-656
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Louisa May Alcott's Queer Geniuses

Gustavus Stadler
pp. 657-677
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Killing Them Softly: Childbed Fever and the Novel

Jane F. Thrailkill
pp. 679-707
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Talking Horrors: James, Euphemism, and the Specter of Wilde

Neill Matheson
pp. 709-750
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Lifting Bellies, Filling Petunias, and Making Meanings through the Trans-Poetic

Susan L. Holbrook
pp. 751-771
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"Strange Prophecies Anew": Rethinking the Politics of Matter and Spirit in Ginsberg's Kaddish

Tony Trigilio
pp. 773-795
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Book Reviews

By Nature and by Custom Cursed: Transatlantic Civil Discourse and New England Cultural Production, 1620-1660 (review)

De Prospo, R. C., 1949-
pp. 797-798
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The Self and the Sacred: Conversion and Autobiography in Early American Protestantism (review)

David G. Miller
pp. 798-799
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The Insistence of the Indian: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (review)

Henry B. Wonham
pp. 799-800
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A Documentary History of the African Theatre (review)

Jon Woodson
pp. 800-801
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The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820-90 (review)

Arnold Krupat
pp. 801-802
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Mark Twain and the Novel: The Double-Cross of Authority (review)

Richard S. Lowry
pp. 802-803
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Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture (review)

Lindon Barrett
pp. 804-805
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Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination (review)

David Anthony
pp. 805-806
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Improvised Europeans: American Literary Expatriates and the Siege of London (review)

Andrew Joseph Scheiber
pp. 806-807
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Gertrude Stein's "The Making of Americans": Repetition and the Emergence of Modernism (review)

Michael Kaufmann
pp. 807-808
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Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History (review)

Jeff Webb
pp. 808-809
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The First Black Actors on the Great White Way (review)

La Vinia Delois Jennings
pp. 809-810
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James Agee and the Legend of Himself (review)

Barry Maine
p. 811
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The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America (review)

Wendy Martin
p. 812
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Hints and Guesses: William Gaddis's Fiction of Longing (review)

John M. Krafft
pp. 813-814
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Circles of Sorrow, Lines of Struggle: The Novels of Toni Morrison (review)

Catherine Rainwater
pp. 814-815
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Cultural Haunting: Ghosts and Ethnicity in Recent American Literature (review)

Steven Weisenburger
pp. 815-816
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Unlimited Embrace: A Canon of Gay Fiction, 1945-1995 (review)

Gregory Tomso
pp. 816-817
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The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry (review)

Jared Gardner
pp. 817-818
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American Indian Literature and the Southwest: Contexts and Dispositions (review)

Linda Woodson
pp. 818-819
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Race Men (review)

William M. Morgan
pp. 820-821
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Deep Talk: Reading African-American Literary Names (review)

Charles Scruggs
pp. 821-822
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Whiteness Visible: The Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature and Culture (review)

Mason Boyd Stokes
pp. 822-823
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Secret Journeys: The Trope of Women's Travel in American Literature (review)

Catherine Golden
pp. 823-824
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Unsettled Subjects: Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique (review)

Maurizia Boscagli
pp. 824-825
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Shattered Subjects: Trauma and Testimony in Women's Life-Writing (review)

Esther F. Lanigan
p. 826
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Interpreting the Self: Two Hundred Years of American Autobiography (review)

James Olney
pp. 827-828
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Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life-Writing (review)

Rosemarie Garland Thomson
pp. 828-829
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Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America (review)

Christopher Castiglia
pp. 829-830
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The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940 (review)

Carla Willard
pp. 830-831
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American Declarations: Rebellion and Repentance in American Cultural History (review)

Robert S. Levine
pp. 831-832
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Mysterious Music: Rhythm and Free Verse (review)

Gay Sibley
pp. 832-833
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