1. Preface: A ‘‘Hive of Subtlety’’: Aesthetics and the End(s) of Cultural Studies–Christopher Castiglia and Russ Castronovo

2. Fictional Feeling: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and the American Gothic–James Dawes

3. Romantic Electricity, or the Materiality of Aesthetics–Paul Gilmore

4. Sentimental Aesthetics–Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

5. Aesthetics at the Limits of the Nation: Kant, Pound, and the Saturday Review–Wai Chee Dimock

6. Mourning the Promised Land: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Automortography and the National Civil Rights Museum–Thomas H. Kane

7. Camp Messianism, or, the Hopes of Poetry in Late-Late Capitalism–Christopher Nealon

Book Reviews

8. Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650–1800 by Ruth H. Bloch–Joanne van der Woude

9. Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature by Paul Downes–Joanne van der Woude

10. The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women’s Literature in America, 1820–1860 by Linda M. Grasso–Monique Allewaert

11. The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II by James Dawes–Monique Allewaert

12. Caribbean Autobiography: Cultural Identity and Self-Representation by Sandra Pouchet Paquet–Crystal S. Anderson

13. Scarring the Black Body: Race and Representation in African American Literature by Carol E. Henderson–Crystal S. Anderson

14. Voices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creation by Sterling Lecater Bland Jr.–Crystal S. Anderson

15. Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation by Jay Grossman–Vivian R. Pollak

16. Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority by Mark Maslan–Vivian R. Pollak

17. Civil Wars: American Novelists and Manners, 1880–1940 by Susan Goodman–Alex Feerst

18. Social Reform, Taste, and the Construction of Virtue in American Literature, 1870–1910 by Janice H. Koistinen-Harris–Alex Feerst

19. War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism by John Seelye–Eric Solomon

20. The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture by Amy Kaplan–Eric Solomon

21. West of Emerson: The Design of Manifest Destiny by Kris Fresonke–Melody Graulich

22. Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West by William R. Handley–Melody Graulich

23. Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945–1961 by Christina Klein–Seung Hye Suh

24. Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism by Mari Yoshihara–Seung Hye Suh

25. A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature by Bill Brown–Marta L. Werner

26. Surface and Depth: The Quest for Legibility in American Culture by Michael T. Gilmore–Marta L. Werner

27. Sexual Violence and American Manhood by T. Walter Herbert–Jeffory A. Clymer

28. Male Sexuality under Surveillance: The Office in American Literature by Graham Thompson–Jeffory A. Clymer

29. Rewriting: Postmodern Narrative and Cultural Critique in the Age of Cloning by Christian Moraru–Victoria Ramirez

30. Radiant Textuality: Literature after the World Wide Web by Jerome McGann– Victoria Ramirez

31. Brief Mention

32. Annoucements

M. Allewaert

Crystal S. Anderson

Jeffory A. Clymer

James Dawes

Elizabeth Dill

Wai Chee Dimock

Alex Feerst

Paul Gilmore

Melody Graulich

Thomas H. Kane

Christopher Nealon

Vivian R. Pollak

Victoria Ramirez

Eric Solomon

Seung Hye Suh

Joanne van der Woude

Marta L. Werner

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