In this Issue

Table of Contents

Pleasure Reading

p. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0022
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Pleasure Reading

The Pleasures of Irreverent Reading

Rachael Nichols
pp. 2-11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0002
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Why I Heart David Walker

Tara Bynum
pp. 11-17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0006
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Essays

Contract, Adoption, and Sibling Incest: The Problem of Democratic Community in James Fenimore Cooper’s Wyandotté

Gretchen Murphy
pp. 19-39
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0010
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Sounding Conscience: Walden’s Global Bottoms

Avram Alpert
pp. 41-63
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0014
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Paul Laurence Dunbar’s The Sport of the Gods and the Modern Discourse of Black Criminality

Thomas Alan Dichter
pp. 65-98
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0017
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“A Human Longing for Redress”: Contrabands and the Language of Debt in Louisa May Alcott’s Civil War Literature

Rebeccah Bechtold
pp. 99-123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0020
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Forum: The End of End of the Canon?

Introduction: A Survey of Survey Courses

Maurice S. Lee
pp. 125-130
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0000
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“But Is It Literary?”: Generalist Racisms, Disciplinary Insularity, and the Limits of Too-Big-to-Fail Thinking

Mark Rifkin
pp. 130-135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0004
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The Canon and the Survey: An Anthologist’s Perspective

Robert S. Levine
pp. 135-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0008
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Uncanon

David Kazanjian
pp. 140-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0012
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Plus ça change: A Response to Maurice Lee

Kenneth W. Warren
pp. 146-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0016
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The Canonical Apple Cart: Reloaded

Cecilia Konchar Farr
pp. 150-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0019
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The Canon: Revised, Repurposed, Unfrozen

Stephanie P. Browner
pp. 155-160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0023
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Interpreting the Survey

Theo Davis
pp. 160-164
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0003
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Mere Formalities; or, How Canonicity Speaks Its Love

Nan Z. Da
pp. 165-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0007
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Canonesis

Joseph Dimuro
pp. 170-174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0011
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Afterword: Five Thoughts

Maurice S. Lee
pp. 174-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0015
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Forum: Civil War Sufferings

Feeling the Pain: Coming to Terms with Suffering in America’s Civil War

Frances M. Clarke
pp. 181-189
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0018
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Children and the Meanings of Suffering in the Civil War Era

Catherine A. Jones
pp. 189-198
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0021
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#BlackLivesMatter: Toward an Algorithm of Black Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Jim Downs
pp. 198-206
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0001
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Jubal A. Early: Model Civil War Sufferer

Kathryn Shively Meier
pp. 206-214
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0005
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The Sacrosanct Statistics of the Civil War

Nicholas Marshall
pp. 214-221
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0009
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Contributor Biographies

pp. 223-226
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0013
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