In this Issue

Table of Contents

Pleasure Reading

p. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0010
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Seeing the Rebel: Or, How to Do Things with Dictionaries in Nineteenth-Century America

Tim Cassedy
pp. 2-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0013
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Most Pleasurable Reading We’re Not Doing: Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

Ivy Schweitzer
pp. 13-24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0016
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“Bartleby,” Empson, and Pastoral Pleasures

Jonathan Elmer
pp. 24-33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0000
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Lost Books and a History of Reading Them

Stephanie Foote
pp. 33-41
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0003
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Life during War time

Michael A. Elliott
pp. 41-52
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0006
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Essays

“Her Little Maid Mandy”: The Abolitionist Slave Owner and the Rhetoric of Affection in the Life and Early Fiction of E. D. E. N. Southworth

Paul Christian Jones
pp. 53-82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0009
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Simultaneity- across- Borders: Richard Henry Dana Jr., Alexander von Humboldt, Edgar Allan Poe

Edward Sugden
pp. 83-106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0012
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Knowing as Neighboring: Approaching Thoreau’s Kalendar

Kristen Case
pp. 107-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0015
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Forum Indigeneity's Difference: Methodology and the Structures of Sovereignty

Introduction

Jodi A. Byrd
pp. 131-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0018
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Sovereignty’s Challenge to Native American (and United States) History

Frederick E. Hoxie
pp. 137-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0002
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Counter-sovereignty

Manu Vimalassery
pp. 142-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0005
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Colonialism, Constituent Power, and Popular Sovereignty

Alyosha Goldstein
pp. 148-153
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0008
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Forum Evidence and the Archive

Introduction: The Aesthetics of Archival Evidence

Carrie Hyde, Joseph Rezek
pp. 155-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0011
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Falsifiability, Confirmation Bias, and Textual Promiscuity

Maurice S. Lee
pp. 162-171
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0014
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Against Accumulation

Brian Connolly
pp. 172-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0017
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Accounting for Textual Remains

Rodrigo Lazo
pp. 179-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0001
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Where the Evidence Is: Or, Willie Sutton Visits the Library

Paul Erickson
pp. 186-194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0004
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Contributor Biographies

pp. 195-198
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2014.0007
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