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Volume 3

Literature in the Early American Republic

Annual Studies on Cooper and His Contemporaries

Editors
Matthew Wynn Sivils, Iowa State University
Jeffrey Walker, Oklahoma State University

Advisory Editor
Lance Schachterle, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
ISSN 1938-5773
Set ISBN-10: 0-404-63910-0
Set ISBN-13: 978-0-404-63910-5

LEAR Honored with CELJ Award for Best New Journal

Read the full announcement.
The only scholarly journal devoted solely to the study of the literary culture of the fledgling United States, Literature in the Early American Republic (LEAR) is a peer-reviewed scholarly annual that promotes discussion of all facets of the literature that arose during the period roughly spanning from the adoption of the Constitution in 1789 to the death of James Fenimore Cooper in 1851.

With the growing scholarly interest in America’s early national literatures, LEAR aspires to become a forum for the examination of a host of issues and figures related to the development of the literary culture of the young Republic. Studies devoted to works by minority figures and other historically underappreciated writers, as well as articles dealing with the works and influence of James Fenimore Cooper, are central to its mission. Rooted in the published work of the period—including political texts, natural history, biography, autobiography, drama, poetry, fiction, travel writing, and other cultural documents of the age—LEAR will also address (or establish critical editions of) unpublished archival manuscripts of cultural or literary relevance.

With articles written in a scholarly but accessible style, LEAR will appeal to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, scholars, and anyone interested in the literature that emerged from America’s early national era.
Statement of Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice
Literature in the Early American Republic is committed to maintaining the highest ethical standards. Before an article is accepted for publication, its author must sign a publication agreement affirming that the article contains no instances of plagiarism or copyright infringement.
Click here for submission guidelines and a list of the journal’s editorial board.

Announcing
Volume 4

2012 (NYP)
ISBN-10: 0-404-63914-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-404-63914-3
Cloth
Price $125.00

CONTENTS
Preface

R. D. Madison, “Sedgwick’s Memorials: Hope Leslie and Colonial Historiography”
Richard S. Pressman, “Margaretta as Federalist Fantasy”
Christopher N. Phillips, “Fragmenting the Bard: Sarah Wentworth Morton’s Intertextual Epic”
James J. Schaefer, “Fame, Freedom, and Familiarity: The Early Americanization of Major General Charles Lee, 1773–1776”
Teresa Coronado, “The Performance of Class in Davy Crockett’s A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee”
Theresa Strouth Gaul, “Ann Paine’s 1820 Travel Narrative: Comments on Slavery and Observations of the Cherokee”
Philip J. Kowalski, “Catching Little Pearl: Hawthorne’s Hybridized Daughters”
Anna Scannavini, “Cooper in Venice; Or, the ‘Telling’ Italian Subtext of The Bravo”
Lance Schachterle, “Cooper and the American Revolutionary War Novel, 1784–1825”
Notes on Contributors
Index

Available
Volume 3

April 2011
ISBN-10: 0-404-63913-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-404-63913-6
Cloth
Price $125.00

CONTENTS

Preface
Wayne Franklin, “Writing America from Abroad: Cooper’s Recollected Sources in The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish”
Robert Battistini, “‘Not to Forsake . . . but to Restore’: Usable Pasts and Generic Play in Brown’s Historical Sketches”
Kacy Dowd Tillman, “The Epistolary Salon: Eighteenth-Century Letter-Writing as a Vehicle for Female Political Engagement”
Kirstie Blair, “Accents Disconsolate: Longfellow’s Evangeline and Antebellum Politics”
Michael J. Drexler, “Those ‘Old Colonial Establishments’ and the New Negro: The Problem of Slavery in the Career of William Dunlap”
Emily García, “Novel Diplomacies: Henry Marie Brackenridge’s Voyage to South America (1819) and Inter-American Revolutionary Literature”
Luis A. Iglesias, “Pirates, Patriots, and the Mexican War: Jack Tier and Cooper’s Argument with the Nation”
Rowland Hughes, “Whiggery in the Wilderness: The Politics of Indian-hating in Robert Montgomery Bird’s Nick of the Woods (1837)”
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Allan M. Axelrad, “Introduction: 2008 MLA Cooper Edition Session”
James A. Sappenfield, “A Conservative Reconsiders the Rationale of Copy-Text”
Karen Lentz Madison and R. D. Madison, “The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish: Noting Cooper’s Narragansett Novel”
Stephen Carl Arch, “All Afloat, No Ashore: Cooper’s Composition of Homeward Bound”
Notes on Contributors
Index

Volumes Available to Order

Volume ISBN-13 Pub. Date Price
1 978-0-404-63911-2 05/2009 $125.00
2 978-0-404-63912-9 04/2010 $125.00
3 978-0-404-63913-6 04/2011 $125.00