In this Issue

Table of Contents

Pleasure Reading

p. 227
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0024
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Words of War

Jillian Spivey Caddell
pp. 228-237
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0025
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Reading Melville Reading Character

Mark Noble
pp. 237-247
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0026
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Individual, Institution, and Society: Religion and Political Economy in Harriet Beecher Stowe

David Weimer
pp. 249-276
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0027
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Drawing the Short Straw: Casting Lots and Cannibal Democracy in Antebellum Maritime Literature

Jacob Rama Berman
pp. 277-303
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0028
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Hawthorne’s English Material: The Civil War in Our Old Home

Anita Durkin
pp. 305-330
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0029
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Boardinghouse Fiction and the American Family in the Boarding-House of the Seven Gables

Erin Sweeney
pp. 331-357
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0030
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What’s Mine: Involuntary Expressions, Modern Personality, and the Right to Privacy

Monica Huerta
pp. 359-389
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0031
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Joaquín’s Head: Theatrical Punishment, Public Address, and Novelistic Politics in the United States–Mexico Borderlands

Timothy Donahue
pp. 391-417
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0032
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Yearning to Breathe Free: Emma Lazarus’s Queer Innovations

Zachary Turpin
pp. 419-424
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0033
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Poems by Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus
pp. 425-453
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0035
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Contributor Biographies

pp. 455-456
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2016.0034
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