1. Introduction-Britt Rusert and Priscilla Wald

2. "Freedom with a Vengeance": Choosing Kin in Antislavery Literature and Law-Edlie Wong

3. Salvaging Legal Personhood: Melville's Benito Cereno-Jeannine Marie DeLombard

4. Interracial Sexual Abuse and Legal Subjectivity in Antebellum Law and Literature-Andrea Stone

5. Fugitive Obscura: Runaway Slave Portraiture and Early Photographic Technology-Sarah Blackwood

6. Free Soil and the Abolitionist Forests of Frederick Douglass's "The Heroic Slave"-Lance Newman

7. "Be Cautious of the Word `Rebel'": Race, Revolution, and Transnational History in Martin Delany's Blake; or, The Huts of America-Andy Doolen

8. Nation, Ocean, Hemisphere, and Planet: New Geographies of American Literary Studies-Gretchen Murphy

Book Reviews

9. Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America; Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy; Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History; Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History-Jordan Alexander Stein

10. Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century; One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic; A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America-Paul Grimstad

11. The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American Animated Short Films, 1907–1954; What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America; Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel-Frederick Luis Aldama

12. Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World; Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945–1960-Philip Beidler

13. Breaking the Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism; Our Living Manhood: Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology; Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta-Candice M. Jenkins

14. National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature; Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America; Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism; Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity-Heather Love

Permission to Photocopy (coursepacks)

If you are requesting permission to photocopy material for classroom use, please contact the Copyright Clearance Center at copyright.com;

If the Copyright Clearance Center cannot grant permission, you may request permission from our Copyrights & Permissions Manager (use Contact Information listed below).

Permission to Reprint

If you are requesting permission to reprint DUP material (journal or book selection) in another book or in any other format, contact our Copyrights & Permissions Manager (use Contact Information listed below).

Images/Art

Many images/art used in material copyrighted by Duke University Press are controlled, not by the Press, but by the owner of the image. Please check the credit line adjacent to the illustration, as well as the front and back matter of the book for a list of credits. You must obtain permission directly from the owner of the image. Occasionally, Duke University Press controls the rights to maps or other drawings. Please direct permission requests for these images to permissions@dukeupress.edu.
For book covers to accompany reviews, please contact the publicity department.

Subsidiary Rights/Foreign Translations

If you're interested in a Duke University Press book for subsidiary rights/translations, please contact permissions@dukeupress.edu. Include the book title/author, rights sought, and estimated print run.

Disability Requests

Instructions for requesting an electronic text on behalf of a student with disabilities are available here.

Rights & Permissions Contact Information

Email: permissions@dukeupress.edu

Email contact for coursepacks: asstpermissions@dukeupress.edu

Fax: 919-688-4574

Mail:
Duke University Press
Rights and Permissions
905 W. Main Street
Suite 18B
Durham, NC 27701

For all requests please include:

1. Author's name. If book has an editor that is different from the article author, include editor's name also.

2. Title of the journal article or book chapter and title of journal or title of book

3. Page numbers (if excerpting, provide specifics)

For coursepacks, please also note: The number of copies requested, the school and professor requesting

For reprints and subsidiary rights, please also note: Your volume title, publication date, publisher, print run, page count, rights sought