In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor's Note: "Language Problems" (with thanks to Kirsten Silva Gruesz)

Marion Rust
pp. 577-581
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909699
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Invention

On Rip Van Winkle

David Capps
pp. 583-589
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909700
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Articles

Notes on Black Ekphrasis

James Edward Ford III
pp. 591-618
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909701
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Olaudah Equiano and Freedom of the Scenes: Embodied Performances in Equiano's Interesting Narrative

Chinaza Amaeze Okoli
pp. 619-639
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909702
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Stopping by Woods in Mashpee Territory: Belonging in William Apess's Indian Nullification

Lloyd Alimboyao Sy
pp. 641-666
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909703
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Symposium

Jicotencal (1826): The Author Revealed!

Introduction: A Key Text for the Early Americas

Carmen E. Lamas
pp. 667-674
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909704
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Cayetano Lanuza, Jicotencal's Author

María Helena Barrera-Agarwal
pp. 675-684
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909705
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Lanuza, Mendía y Compañía and the Unfinished Work of Spanish-Language Bibliography in the United States

Kirsten Silva Gruesz
pp. 685-702
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909706
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Still Anonymous: Jicotencal and the Authority of Labor

Rodrigo Lazo
pp. 703-717
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909707
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Review Essay

Religious Freedom and Unfreedom in Early America, or, A Prehistory of Dobbs

Dawn Coleman
pp. 719-743
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909708
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Book Reviews

The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards ed. by Douglas A. Sweeney and Jan Stievermann (review)

Brad Bannon
pp. 745-749
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909709
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The Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature ed. by Bryce Traister (review)

Ralph Bauer
pp. 749-754
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909710
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Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas by Kirsten Silva Gruesz (review)

Kristina Bross
pp. 754-758
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909711
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Philadelphia Stories: People and Their Places in Early America by C. Dallett Hemphill (review)

Robynne Rogers Healey
pp. 759-764
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909712
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Indigenuity: Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literatures by Caroline Wigginton (review)

Frank Kelderman
pp. 764-768
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909713
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The Textual Effects of David Walker's Appeal: Print-Based Activism against Slavery, Racism, and Discrimination, 1829–1851 by Marcy J. Dinius (review)

Sofia Meadows-Muriel, Britt Rusert
pp. 768-772
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909714
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The Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism by Leigh Eric Schmidt (review)

David Mislin
pp. 773-776
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909715
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Feeling Godly: Religious Affections and Christian Contact in Early North America ed. by Caroline Wigginton and Abram van Engen (review)

Catherine O'Donnell
pp. 776-779
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909716
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Poor Richard's Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women behind the Founding Father by Nancy Rubin Stuart (review)

Ormond Seavey
pp. 779-784
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909717
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Letters from Filadelfia: Early Latino Literature and the Trans-American Elite by Rodrigo Lazo (review)

Matthew E. Suazo
pp. 785-790
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909718
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The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 by Scott McDermott (review)

Mark Valeri
pp. 790-794
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909719
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Resources for Early American Studies

Who's Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race ed. by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran (review)

Mary Mcalpin
pp. 795-798
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909720
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Julia and the Illuminated Baron ed. by Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood Richard S. Pressman (review)

Gretchen Murphy
pp. 798-800
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909721
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Notes on Contributors

pp. 801-804
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/eal.2023.a909722
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