Resources for
American Literary
Study

Articles
Todd H. Richardson, “Emerson Iconography and the Free Religious Index”
Emron Esplin, “From Poetic Genius to Master of Short Fiction: Edgar Allan Poe’s Reception and Influence in Spanish America from the Beginnings through the Boom”
Michael Anesko and N. Christine Brookes, “Monsieur de l’Aubépine: The French Face of Nathaniel Hawthorne”
Sterling F. Delano and Joel Myerson, “Letters from Brook Farm: A Comprehensive Checklist of Surviving Correspondence”
Sharon L. Dean, “Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Letters to Dr. William Wilberforce Baldwin”
Grace Farrell, “Lillie Devereux Blake and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Collaboration”
Robert M. Dowling, “‘The Screenews of War’: A Newly Published Short Story by Eugene O’Neill”
Francis J. Bosha, “The John Cheever Journals at Harvard University’s Houghton Library”

Review-Essays
Andrew Jewell, “Clotel, Typee, and the Promise of Digital Scholarship”
William Pannapacker, “The Walt Whitman Archive: The Body of Work Electric”
Karen Ruth Kornweibel, “Race and the Anxieties of Authorship: Two of Charles W. Chesnutt’s ‘White-Life’ Novels”
Roger Forseth,“You Can Go Home Again. Sinclair Lewis: Biography and Short Fiction”

Reviews
Emily Sampson, With Her Own Eyes: The Story of Julia Smith, Her Life, and Her Bible, reviewed by Deshae E. Lott; Millicent Bell, ed., Hawthorne and the Real Bicentennial Essays, reviewed by Peter West; Cecile Anne de Rocher, ed., Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne: A Life in Letters, reviewed by Nina Baym; Henrik Otterberg, Hound, Bay Horse, and Turtle Dove: Obscurity and Authority in Thoreau’s “Walden,” reviewed by Ian Marshall; Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, ed. Robert S. Levine, reviewed by Aaron Shackelford; David S. Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights, reviewed by Carolyn L. Karcher; Robert S. Levine, ed., Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader, reviewed by John Ernest; Donald Hoffmann, Mark Twain in Paradise: His Voyages to Bermuda, reviewed by Joseph B. McCullough.; Simon J. Bronner, ed., Lafcadio Hearn’s America: Ethnographic Sketches and Editorials, reviewed by Nathaniel Cadle; Paul Sorrentino, ed., Stephen Crane Remembered, reviewed by John Clendenning; Theodore Dreiser, A Traveler at Forty, ed. Renate von Bardeleben, reviewed by Jerome Loving; Claudia Stokes, Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875–1910, reviewed by Joel Myerson; Jennifer Cognard-Black and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, eds., Kindred Hands: Letters on Writing by British and American Women Authors, 1865–1935, reviewed by Roxanne Harde; Walter B. Rideout, Sherwood Anderson: A Writer in America, 2 vols., reviewed by James L. W. West III; Albert J. DeFazio III, ed., Dear Papa, Dear Hotch: The Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner, reviewed by Rose Marie Burwell; Carol DeBoer-Langworthy, ed., The Modern World of Neith Boyce: Autobiography and Diaries, reviewed by Judith E. Barlow; J. Donald Blount, ed., The Contemplated Spouse: The Letters of Wallace Stevens to Elsie, reviewed by Glen MacLeod; Darlene Harbour Unrue, Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist, reviewed by Christine Hait; George Hutchinson, In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line, reviewed by Daryl Dance; James A. Perkins, ed., The Cass Mastern Material: The Core of Robert Penn Warren’s “All the King’s Men,” reviewed by Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. ; Stephen J. May, Michener: A Writer’s Journey, reviewed by Samuel Bellman; Albert J. Devlin and Nancy M. Tischler, eds., The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams: Volume II, 1946–1957, reviewed by Ralph F. Voss; Stephen Burt, ed., with Hannah Brooks-Motl, Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden, reviewed by Richard Cross; Robert D. Habich, ed., Lives out of Letters: Essays on American Literary Biography and Documentation, in Honor of Robert H. Hudspeth, reviewed by Paul Sorrentino; Maureen E. Reed, A Woman’s Place: Women Writing New Mexico, reviewed by Elizabeth Archuleta