In this Issue
Through essays, position papers, and commentaries, along with reviews, interviews, and previously unpublished diaries, letters, and stories, American Literary History surveys the contested field of US culture four times a year. No other scholarly publication offers such a wide-ranging and provocative discussion of critical challenges. American Literary History has become the premier forum for a rich and varied criticism shaping the ways we have come to think about America and setting the agenda of American cultural studies.
published by
Oxford University Pressviewing issue
Volume 37, Number 2, Summer 2025Table of Contents

-
View I Cannot Write My Life: Islam and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America by Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst (review)
-
Download I Cannot Write My Life: Islam and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America by Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst (review)
- Save I Cannot Write My Life: Islam and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America by Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst (review)

-
View How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Dana Luciano (review)
-
Download How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Dana Luciano (review)
- Save How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Dana Luciano (review)

-
View Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Zachary Tavlin (review)
-
Download Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Zachary Tavlin (review)
- Save Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Zachary Tavlin (review)

-
View Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind by Ayad Rahmani (review)
-
Download Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind by Ayad Rahmani (review)
- Save Frank Lloyd Wright and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Transforming the American Mind by Ayad Rahmani (review)

-
View Circulating Jim Crow: The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity by Adam McKible (review)
-
Download Circulating Jim Crow: The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity by Adam McKible (review)
- Save Circulating Jim Crow: The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity by Adam McKible (review)

-
View Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom by Alexandra Edwards (review)
-
Download Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom by Alexandra Edwards (review)
- Save Before Fanfiction: Recovering the Literary History of American Media Fandom by Alexandra Edwards (review)

-
View Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power by Greg Barnhisel (review)
-
Download Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power by Greg Barnhisel (review)
- Save Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power by Greg Barnhisel (review)

-
View Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier (review)
-
Download Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier (review)
- Save Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier (review)

-
View Borderland Brutalities: Violence and Resistance along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture by Laura Elena Belmonte (review)
-
Download Borderland Brutalities: Violence and Resistance along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture by Laura Elena Belmonte (review)
- Save Borderland Brutalities: Violence and Resistance along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture by Laura Elena Belmonte (review)

-
View Happy Days: Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America by Benjamin L. Alpers (review)
-
Download Happy Days: Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America by Benjamin L. Alpers (review)
- Save Happy Days: Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America by Benjamin L. Alpers (review)

-
View Second Lives: Black-Market Melodramas and the Reinvention of Television by Michael Szalay (review)
-
Download Second Lives: Black-Market Melodramas and the Reinvention of Television by Michael Szalay (review)
- Save Second Lives: Black-Market Melodramas and the Reinvention of Television by Michael Szalay (review)

-
View Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production by Linh Thủy Nguyễn (review)
-
Download Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production by Linh Thủy Nguyễn (review)
- Save Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production by Linh Thủy Nguyễn (review)
Previous Issue
ISSN | 1468-4365 |
---|---|
Print ISSN | 0896-7148 |
Launched on MUSE | 2025-07-01 |
Open Access | No |
Copyright
Copyright © Oxford University Press and the Authors