In this Issue

Table of Contents

Brief Mention

pp. 445-458
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Articles

Preface: Violence, the Body and "The South"

Houston A. Baker, Dana D. Nelson
pp. 231-244
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"Eye-Witness to the Cruelty": Southern Violence and Northern Testimony in Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative

Jeannine DeLombard
pp. 245-275
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The "Mysteries and Miseries" of North Carolina: New York City, Urban Gothic Fiction, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Jennifer Rae Greeson
pp. 271-309
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Charles Chesnutt and the Epistemology of Racial Violence

Bryan Wagner
pp. 311-337
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The Body against Itself in Faulkner's Phenomenology of Race

Laura Doyle
pp. 339-364
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Sidney Poitier's Civil Rights: Rewriting the Mystique of White Womanhood in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and In the Heat of the Night

Andrea Levine
pp. 365-386
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Refugees of the South: Central Americans in the U.S. Latino Imaginary

Ana Patricia Rodríguez
pp. 387-412
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Book Reviews

Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845 (review)

Fritz Fleischmann
pp. 413-414
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Sharing Secrets: Nineteenth-Century Women's Relations in the Short Story (review)

Mimi Gladstein
pp. 414-415
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The Portable Theater: American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Stage (review)

Jeffrey H. Richards
pp. 415-416
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Emily Dickinson: Monarch of Perception (review)

Joan Burbick
pp. 416-417
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Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe (review)

Edwin J. Barton
p. 18
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Mark Twain, A Literary Life (review)

Paul Baender
p. 419
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Neutral Ground: New Traditionalism and the American Romance Controversy (review)

Susan Belasco
pp. 420-421
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Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition (review)

Melissa Solomon
pp. 421-422
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Notations of the Wild: Ecology in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens (review)

J. Scott Bryson
pp. 422-423
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Patterns for America: Modernism and the Concept of Culture (review)

Jared Gardner
pp. 423-424
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The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery (review)

James Applewhite
pp. 424-425
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Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction (review)

John Whalen-Bridge
pp. 425-426
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Creating the Modern Man: American Magazines and Consumer Culture, 1900-1950 (review)

Andrew Hoborek
pp. 426-427
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Barry Hannah: Postmodern Romantic (review)

John Lowe
pp. 427-428
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West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Frontiers (review)

Blake Allmendinger
pp. 429-430
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Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West (review)

John Hellmann
pp. 430-431
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Frames of Southern Mind: Reflections on the Stoic, Bi-Racial, and Existential South (review)

Matthew Guinn
pp. 431-432
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Inventing Southern Literature (review)

Veronica Makowsky
pp. 432-433
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The Irish Voice in America: 250 Years of Irish-American Fiction (review)

Enda Duffy
pp. 433-434
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Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space (review)

Barbara Ryan
pp. 434-435
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Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition (review)

Jan Cohn
pp. 435-436
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Autobiographical Inscriptions: Form, Personhood, and the American Woman Writer of Color (review)

Lynn Z. Bloom
pp. 437-438
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Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America (review)

Christopher A. McAuley
pp. 438-439
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Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (review)

Robert Reid-Pharr
pp. 439-440
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The Line's Eye: Poetic Experience, American Sight (review)

Gary Kerley
pp. 440-441
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Coyote Kills John Wayne: Postmodernism and Contemporary Fictions of the Transcultural Frontier (review)

Jeanne Campbell Reesman
pp. 441-442
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Black Hunger: Food and the Politics of U.S. Identity (review)

Riché Richardson
pp. 442-443
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