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Table of Contents

Pleasure Reading

p. 193
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2017.0011
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"I Can Dig It": Kate Beaton's C19 Punch Lines

Sarah Sillin
pp. 194-204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2017.0012
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George Lippard's "Theatre of Hell": Apocalyptic Melodrama and Working-Class Spectatorship in the Quaker City

Michael D'Alessandro
pp. 205-237
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2017.0013
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"Fit to Be Free": From Race to Capacity in Jewett's "Mistress of Sydenham Plantation"

Vesna Kuiken
pp. 239-266
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2017.0014
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Emerson's Memory Loss

Christopher Hanlon
pp. 267-292
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2017.0015
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Big Cats and the Femme Fatale in Yda H. Addis's "A Human Tigress"

Rene H. Treviño
pp. 293-308
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2017.0016
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Debilitating Courtesies: Tracking Rights in Our Nig and Commonwealth v. Aves

Rachel Banner
pp. 309-339
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2017.0017
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Rethinking Regionalism: Sarah Orne Jewett's Mental Landscapes

Stuart Burrows
pp. 341-359
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2017.0018
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A Democracy, If You Can Keep It

Danielle Allen
pp. 368-374
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2017.0020
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Democracy in Las Américas

James E. Sanders
pp. 374-381
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2017.0021
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Democracy's False Choice: The Reform-Revolution Dilemma

Kelvin C. Black
pp. 381-388
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2017.0022
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Democracy and Discussion: Albion Tourgée on Race and the Town Meeting Ideal1

Sandra M. Gustafson
pp. 389-396
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2017.0023
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Democracy and Disgust

Jason Frank
pp. 396-403
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2017.0024
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Farewell

Chris Castiglia, Dana Nelson
pp. 405-406
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2017.0025
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Contributor Biographies

pp. 407-409
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2017.0026
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Introduction

D. Berton Emerson, Gregory Laski
pp. 361-368
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2017.0019
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