Articles

Geoffrey Sanborn

James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the Passing Novel

Jennifer L. Fleissner

The Ordering Power of Disorder: Henry Adams and the Return of the Darwinian Era

John Mac Kilgore

The Cakewalk of Capital in Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition

Michael Devine

“An Art That Won't Behave”: Film and the Seven Arts, 1907-21

Christopher P. Wilson

“He Fell Just Short of Being News”: Gatsby's Tabloid Shadows

Thomas Gordon Perrin

The Old Men and the “Sea of Masscult”: T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and Middlebrow Aesthetics

Review Essay

Reena Sastri

American Poetry Studies in the Twenty-First Century

Book Reviews

Joni Adamson

The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America / The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America / Thoreau the Land Surveyor

/The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America–By Walls Laura Dassow/

/Thoreau the Land Surveyor–By Chura Patrick/

Karen Sánchez-Eppler

Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature / Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature / Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

/Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature–By Gardner Eric/

/Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century–By Foreman P. Gabrielle/

Mark Noble

American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet / American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet / Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries

/American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet–By Whitley Edward/

/Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries–By Vendler Helen/

Kendall Johnson

Henry James's Narrative Technique: Consciousness, Perception, and Cognition / Henry James's Narrative Technique: Consciousness, Perception, and Cognition / The Illustration of the Master: Henry James and the Magazine Revolution

/Henry James's Narrative Technique: Consciousness, Perception, and Cognition–by Boudreau Kristin/

/The Illustration of the Master: Henry James and the Magazine Revolution–by Tucker Amy/

Kevin R. McNamara

Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture / Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture / An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America / Bohemia in America, 1858-1920

/Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture–By Heise Thomas/

/An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America–By Connolly James J/

/Bohemia in America, 1858-1920–By Levin Joanna/

Joshua Miller

World Writing: Poetics, Ethics, Globalization / World Writing: Poetics, Ethics, Globalization / Multilingual America: Language and the Making of American Literature

/World Writing: Poetics, Ethics, Globalization–by Gallagher Mary (Ed.)/

/Multilingual America: Language and the Making of American Literature–By Rosenwald Lawrence Alan/

Maeera Y. Shreiber

Modernist Writings and Religio-Scientific Discourse: H.D., Loy, and Toomer / Modernist Writings and Religio-Scientific Discourse: H.D., Loy, and Toomer / On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry

/Modernist Writings and Religio-Scientific Discourse: H.D., Loy, and Toomer–By Vetter Lara/

/On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry–By Finkelstein Norman/

Vera M. Kutzinski

The Purloined Islands: Caribbean-US Crosscurrents in Literature and Culture, 1880-1959 / The Purloined Islands: Caribbean-US Crosscurrents in Literature and Culture, 1880-1959 / Asylum Speakers: Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse / Elusive Origins: The Enlightenment in the Modern Caribbean Historical Imagination

/The Purloined Islands: Caribbean-US Crosscurrents in Literature and Culture, 1880-1959–By Karem Jeff/.

/Asylum Speakers: Caribbean Refugees and Testimonial Discourse–By Shemak April/

/Elusive Origins: The Enlightenment in the Modern Caribbean Historical Imagination–By Miller Paul B./.

J. Peter Moore

Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life / Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life / Radical Affections: Essays on the Poetics of Outside / Capturing the Beat Moment: Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Presence / Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics: Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s

/Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life–By Izenberg Oren/

/Radical Affections: Essays on the Poetics of Outside–By Nichols Miriam/

/Capturing the Beat Moment: Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Presence–By Mortenson Erik/

/Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics: Stevens, Cummings, Frost, and Williams in the 1930s–By Cohen Milton/

Kimberly Lamm

Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age / Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age / Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in “New American” Poetry / Urban Pastoral: Natural Currents in the New York School / Deep Skin: Elizabeth Bishop and Visual Art

/Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age–By Stein Kevin/

/Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in “New American” Poetry–By Mossin Andrew/

/Urban Pastoral: Natural Currents in the New York School–By Gray Timothy/

/Deep Skin: Elizabeth Bishop and Visual Art–By Samuels Peggy/.

James Dawes

A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction / A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction / Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison

/A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction–By Franklin Ruth/

/Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison–By Schreiber Evelyn Jaffe/

David Yaffe

Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture / Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture / Authors Out Here: Fitzgerald, West, Parker, and Schulberg in Hollywood

/Bring on the Books for Everybody: How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture–By Collins Jim/

/Authors Out Here: Fitzgerald, West, Parker, and Schulberg in Hollywood–By Cerasulo Tom/

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