1. Preface: Unnatural Formations–Michael Moon

2. Affect-Genealogy: Feeling and Affiliation in Willa Cather–Christopher Nealon

3. "Single White Female": The Sexual Politics of Spinsterhood in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Oldtown Folks–Kathryn R. Kent

4. The Boston Marriage as the Future of the Nation: Queerly Regional Sexuality in Diana Victrix–Kate McCullough

5. Getting into it with James: Substitution and Erotic Reversal in The Awkward Age–Michael Trask

6. Passing Through the Closet in Pauline E. Hopkins's Contending Forces–Siobhan Somerville

7.Obscene Modernism: Eros Noir and the Profane Illumination of Djuna Barnes–Dianne Chisholm

Book Reviews

8. Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst by Christopher Castiglia–Logan

9. Voicing America: Language, Literary Form, and the Origins of the United States by Christopher Looby–Lawrence Buell

10. Purloined Letters: Originality and Repetition in American Literature by Joseph N. Riddel, Mark Bauerlein–John Bryant

11. Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books 1621-1922 by Gillian Avery–Bonnie Gaarden

12. Disciplines of Virtue: Girls' Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by Lynne Vallone–Barbara Ryan

13. The Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American Myth by Martin Barker; Roger Sabin–Jeffory A. Clymer

14. Making of the Hawthorne Subject by Alison Easton–Jonathan Elmer

15. Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science by Laura Dassow Walls–John Limon

16. Satirical Apocalypse: An Anatomy of Melville's "The Confidence-Man" By Jonathan A. Cook–Sharon L. Dean

17. Melville's Muse: Literary Creation and the Forms of Philosophical Fiction by John Paul Wenke–Elizabeth Renker

18. The Weaver-God, He Weaves: Melville and the Poetics of the Novel by Christopher Sten–Beverly A. Hume

19. Emily Dickinson, Daughter of Prophecy by Beth Maclay Doriani–Joanna Yin

20. Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature: Brown, Wilson, Jacobs, Delany, Douglass, and Harper by John Ernest–Gregg D. Crane

21. Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom by Russ Castronovo–Jared Gardner

22. The Apocalypse in African-American Fiction by Maxine Lavon Montgomery–Kristin Boudreau

23. Male Authors, Female Subjects: The Woman Within/Beyond the Borders of Henry Adams, Henry James, and Others by Duco van Oostrum–Mylène Dressler

24. The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Sexual Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926 by Bert Bender–Bernice L. Hausman

25. Dream Revisionaries: Gender and Genre in Women's Utopian Fiction 1870-1920 by Darby Lewes–Carol Farley Kessler

26. Gender and the Gothic in the Fiction of Edith Wharton by Kathy A. Fedorko–Mary V. Marchand

27. The End of the Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton and the First World War by Alan Price–Helen Killoran

28. Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration by Joseph R. Urgo–Robert Thacker

29. A Certain Slant of Light: Regionalism and the Form of Southern and Midwestern Fiction by David Marion Holman–Reginald Dyck

30. Women Editing Modernism: "Little" Magazines and Literary History by Jayne E. Marek–Frances Kerr

31. The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes and the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States by Michael Kammen–Jane Creighton

32. Hemingway: The Postwar Years and the Posthumous Novels by Rose Marie Burwell–Thomas K. Meier

33. Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner by Noel Polk–R. Urgo

34. The People's Writer: Erskine Caldwell and the South by Wayne Mixon–Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.

35. The Fiction of Paule Marshall: Reconstructions of History, Culture, and Gender by Dorothy Hamer Denniston–Beverly Lanier Skinner

36. Toni Morrison's Fiction by Jan Furman–Charlene Taylor Evans

37. The Web of Friendship: Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens by Robin G. Schulze–Alan Michael Parker

38. Derek Walcott's Poetry: American Mimicry by Rei Terada–Gregson Davis

39. The Viet Nam War/The American War: Images and Representations in Euro-American and Vietnamese Exile Narratives by Renny Christopher–Gordon O. Taylor

40. Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative by Fred L. Gardaphé–Frank Shuffelton

41. Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History by Cynthia J. Davis, Kathryn West–Sheryl L. Meyering

42. Brief Mention

43. Announcements

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