1. Preface: New Melville

2. Melville Climbs the Canon—Paul Lauter

3. Lovers of Human Flesh: Homosexuality and Cannibalism in Melville's Novels—Caleb Crain

4. The Eden of Saddle Meadows: Landscape and Ideology in Pierre—Samuel Otter

5. Melville's Handsome Sailor: The Anxiety of Innocence—Nancy Ruttenburg

6. The Moby-Dick White Elephant—Julian Markels

7. Herman Melville, Wife Beating, and the Written Page—Elizabeth Renker

Book Reviews

8. Sinful Self, Saintly Self: The Puritan Experience of Poetry by Jeffrey A. Hammond–Jane Donahue Eberwein

9. Female Piety in Puritan New England: The Emergence of Religious Humanism by Amanda Porterfield–Fritz Fleischmann

10. The New England Milton: Literary Reception and Cultural Authority in the Early Republic by K. P Van Anglen –David M by Robinson

11. Reappraising Benjamin Franklin: A Bicentennial Perspective by J. A. Leo Lemay–Daniel E by Williams

12. William Byrd II and his Lost History: Engravings of the Americas by Margaret Beck Pritchard, Virginia Lascara Sites–Kevin J by Hayes

13. Forms of Uncertainty: Essays in Historical Criticism by David Levin–Mason Lowance Jr.

14. A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America by Frank Shuffelton–Barbara C. Ewell

15. A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public by Ronald J. Zboray–David Paul Nord

16. Narrating Discovery: The Romantic Explorer in American Literature, 1790-1855 by Bruce Greenfield–William L. Hedges

17. Lost in the Customhouse: Authorship in the American Renaissance by Jerome Loving–Barton Levi St. Armand

18. The Private Melville by Philip Young–R. Bruce Bickley Jr.

19. Faith in a Seed: "The Dispersion of Seeds" and Other Late Natural History Writings by Henry D by Thoreau, Bradley P by Dean–Ronald Wesley Hoag

20. Jones Very: The Complete Poems by Helen R by Deese–George Monteiro

21. Walt Whitman and the Citizen's Eye by James Dougherty–Jerome Loving

22. The Language(s) of Poetry: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins by James Olney–Joan Burbick

23. The Pluralistic Philosophy of Stephen Crane by

Patrick K. Dooley, John J by McDermott –William B by Dillingham

24. Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America by Richard H. Brodhead–Nina Baym

25. Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response by James L. Machor –Timothy H. Scherman

26. By the Law of Nature: Form and Value in Nineteenth-Century America by Howard Horwitz , American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition by

Russell B. Goodman–Eric Cheyfitz

27. To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature by Eric J. Sundquist–William L by Andrews

28. White Collar Fictions: Class and Social Representation in American Literature, 1885-1925 by Christopher P. Wilson–Amy M. Thomas

29. Writing their Nations: The Tradition of Nineteenth-Century American Jewish Women Writers by Diane Lichtenstein–Miriyam Glazer

30. Doing Literary Business: American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century by Susan Coultrap-McQuinn, Edith Wharton's Women: Friends and Rivals by

Susan Goodman–Carol J. Singley

31. The Sexual Education of Edith Wharton by Gloria C. Erlich–Bruce Michelson

32. The Trial of Curiosity: Henry James, William James, and the Challenge of Modernity by Ross Posnock–Edwin J. Barton

33. American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism, 1885-1917 by

Robert Crunden–Stephen Enniss

34. Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism by Jerome McGann–Marianne DeKoven

35. Malcolm Cowley: The Formative Years by Hans Bak–Tim Poland

36. The Veiled Mirror and the Woman Poet: H. D., Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Glück by Elizabeth Dodd; The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord by Betsy Erkkila–Katharine Rodier

37. H.D.'s Freudian Poetics: Psychoanalysis in Translation by Dianne Chisholm–Adalaide Morris

38. William Carlos Williams and the Diagnostics of Culture by Brian A. Bremen–Christopher Clausen

39. Denise Levertov: The Poetry of Engagement by Audrey T. Rodgers–Stephanie A. Tingley

40. The Trivial Sublime: Theology and American Poetics by

Linda Munk–Leonard Cassuto

41. Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture by Dana Gioia–Lance Dean

42. After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America by Vernon Shetley–Willard Spiegelman

43. The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry by Maria Damon–Walter Kalaidjian

44. The Fictive World of Conrad Aiken: A Celebration of Consciousness by Catharine F. Seigel–Edward Butscher

45. Protest and Possibility in the Writing of Tillie Olsen by Mara Faulkner–Marilyn Yalom

46. Cynthia Ozick's Fiction: Tradition and Invention by Elaine M. Kauvar–Victor Strandberg

47. Multicultural Autobiography: American Lives by James Robert Payne–Lynn Z. Bloom

48. Ethnic Passages: Literary Immigrants in Twentieth-Century America by Thomas J. Ferraro–Jules Chametzky

49. Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel by Louis Owens–Jan Furman

50. Indi'n Humor: Bicultural Play in Native America by Kenneth Lincoln–Craig S. Womack

51. Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s by

W. T. Lhamon Jr.–John Rohrkemper

52. Constructing Postmodernism by Brian McHale–Kathryn Hume

53. Brief Mention

54. Announcements

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