1. Preface: Erasing the Commas: RaceGenderClassSexualityRegion–Margo Crawford

2. Charles Fuller’s Southern Specter and the Geography of Black Masculinity–Riché Richardson

3. ‘‘It Spoke Itself’’: Women’s Genius and Eccentric Politics–Victoria Olwell

4. Tender Revisions: Harryette Mullen’s Trimmings and S*PeRM**K*T–Deborah Mix

5. Nameless Outrages: Narrative Authority, Rape Rhetoric, and the Dakota Conflict of 1862–Janet Dean

6. Emancipating the Lettered Slave: Sentiment and Slavery in Augusta Evans’s St. Elmo–Elizabeth Trubey

7. Black Hairdresser and Social Critic: Eliza Potter and the Labors of Femininity–Xiomara Santamarina

Book Reviews

8. Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776–1898 by

Elizabeth D. Samet–Russ Castronovo

9. The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America by David Kazanjian–

Russ Castronovo

10. Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827–1863 by Maureen Konkle–Eric Gary Anderson

11. The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman: The Journalism, Volume II: 1846–1848 ed. Herbert Bergman, Douglas Noverr, and Edward Recchia–Jason Stacy

12. Making Girls into Women: American Women’s Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity by Kathryn R. Kent–Richard S. Lowry

13. From Girl to Woman: American Women’s Coming-of-Age Narratives by Christy Rishoi–Richard S. Lowry

14. Dangerous Intimacy: The Untold Story of Mark Twain’s Final Years by Karen Lystra–Victor Strandberg

15. Henry James and Queer Modernity by Eric Haralson–John Dudley

16. Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity by Leland S. Person–John Dudley

17. Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult by Susan K. Gillman–Jeffrey W. Miller

18. Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro by Barbara Foley–Jeffrey W. Miller

19. Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South by Tara McPherson–Jeffrey W. Miller

20. Would Poetry Disappear? American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity by John Timberman Newcomb–David Bergman

21. Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada by Amelia Jones–David Bergman

22. Faulkner and the Politics of Reading by Karl F. Zender–Jason Gary Horn

23. Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner’s ‘‘Go Down, Moses’’ by Thadious M. Davis– Jason Gary Horn

24. On the Lam: Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover’s America by William Beverly–D. Quentin Miller

25. Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century by John Houchin–D. Quentin Miller

26. A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater by David Savran–Peter Hays

27. Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity by Shannon Jackson–

Peter Hays

28. From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749–1826 by Thomas Hallock–Barbara Ryan

29. Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place by Rick Van Noy–Barbara Ryan

30. Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship by Nathaniel Lewis–Blake Allmendinger

31. In the Work of Their Hands Is Their Prayer: Cultural Narrative and Redemption on the American Frontiers, 1830–1930 by Joel Daehnke–Blake Allmendinger

32. Toward a Native American Critical Theory by Elvira Pulitano–Scott Andrews

33. Gambling and Survival in Native North America by Paul Pasquaretta–Scott Andrews

34. Things edited by Bill Brown–Susan Fraiman

35. A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships between Women by Suzanne Juhasz–Susan Fraiman

36. Brief Mention

37. Announcements

Blake Allmendinger

Eric Gary Anderson

Scott Andrews

David Bergman

Russ Castronovo

Margo Crawford

Janet Dean

John Dudley

Susan Fraiman

Peter L. Hays

Jason Gary Horn

Richard S. Lowry

D. Quentin Miller

Jeffrey W. Miller

Deborah Mix

Victoria Olwell

Riché Richardson

Barbara Ryan

Xiomara Santamarina

Jason Stacy

Victor Strandberg

Elizabeth Trubey

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