1. Preface: No More Separate Spheres!–Cathy N. Davidson

2. Circling the Spheres: A Dialogue–Lawrence Buell

3. "My Sister! My Sister!": The Rhetoric of Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie–Judith Fetterley

4. Sex, Class, and "Category Crisis": Reading Jewett's Transitivity–Marjorie Pryse

5. Contradictory Impulses: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Resistance Theory, and the Politics of Chicano/a Studies–José F. Aranda Jr.

6. Manifest Domesticity–Amy Kaplan

7. Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres–You-me Park, Gayle Wald

8. Poor Eliza–Lauren Berlant

Book Reviews

9. Metaphors of Dispossession: American Beginnings and the Translation of Empire, 1492-1637 by Gesa Mackenthun–Mary C. Fuller

10. Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation by Teresa A. Goddu–Jonathan Elmer

11. The Peculiarity of Literature: An Allegorical Approach to Poe's Fiction by Jeffrey DeShell–Carol H. Smith

12. What Thoreau Said: "Walden" and the Unsayable by William C. Johnson Jr.–Leonard M. Scigaj

13. The Tutor'd Mind: Indian Missionary Writers in Antebellum America by Bernd C. Peyer–Scott Andrews

14. Home Fronts: Domesticity and Its Critics in the Antebellum United States by Lora Romero–Gustavus Stadler

15. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Saidiya V. Hartman; The Slumbering Volcano: American Slave Ship Revolts and the Production of Rebellious Masculinity by Maggie Montesinos Sale–Russ Castronovo

16. Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity by Robert S. Levine–Shelley Fisher Fishkin

17. Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives by Jennifer Fleischner–Ellen Weinauer

18. Literature and Humanitarian Reform in the Civil War Era by Gregory Eiselein–Ezra Greenspan

19. Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910 by Nancy Glazener–Philip Joseph

20. "Huckleberry Finn" As Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time by Jonathan Arac–Everett Emerson

21. The Prefaces of Henry James: Framing the Modern Reader by John H. Pearson–Joyce A. Rowe

22. The Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief by Mark Bauerlein–David Jarraway

23. Fashioning the Female Subject: The Intertextual Networking of Dickinson, Moore, and Rich by Sabine Sielke–Gertrude Reif Hughes

24. Dislocating the Color Line: Identity, Hybridity, and Singularity in African-American Literature by Samira Kawash–John Ernest

25. An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature by King-Kok Cheung–Greta Ai-Yu Niu

26. Brief Mention

27. Announcements

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