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Volume 32

Resources for
American Literary
Study


Edited by
Jackson R. Bryer (jbryer@umd.edu) and
Richard Kopley (rxk3@psu.edu)
Associate Editor: Gib Prettyman
Book Review Editor: MaryEllen Higgins (mxh68@psu.edu)

ISSN 0048-7384
Set ISBN-10: 0-404-64625-5
Set ISBN-13: 978-0-404-64625-7


Founded in 1971, Resources for American Literary Study soon became a favored venue for archival scholarship and bibliographical analysis in American literature. Recent issues have featured unpublished letters from F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, Bret Harte, Edith Wharton, Alice James, Willa Cather, and Nathanael West; analyses of manuscripts by Thoreau, Hemingway, Eugene O’Neill; checklists of letters by John Cheever; a “Prospects” section with expert recommendations for the future study of authors ranging from Poe to Malamud. Book reviews are also prominent feature in every volume. RALS became a clothbound annual with volume 27 and is published by AMS Press. Everything else that has made the journal a force in literary study for the past thirty years is in place.

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Available

Volume 32

June 2009
ISBN-10: 0-404-64632-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-404-64632-5
Cloth $187.50

CONTENTS
Editors’ Note
Kevin J. Hayes, “Remembering Leo: A Tribute to J. A. Leo Lemay (1935–2008)”

Prospects 16
Robert DeMott with Brian Railsback, Prospects for the Study of John Steinbeck

Articles
Carol DeBoer-Langworthy, “‘Not a Bourgeois Project’: Neith Boyce’s The Story of an American Family
Jessie Bray, “‘ Not a pure idealist ’: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, and the Civil War”
Michael Anesko and N. Christine Brookes, “Ancestral Footsteps: Montégut on Monte-Beni”
Keith Newlin, “Unwitting Provocateur: Mary Wilkins Freeman and the American Academy of Arts and Letters”
Pamela R. Matthews, “Reimagining The Sheltered Life: Catherine Turney Adapts Ellen Glasgow”
Nicholas Moschovakis and David Roessel, “Jungle, or Walter Finds the Pearl: A Previously Unpublished One-Act Play by Tennessee Williams”
Gretchen Comba, “William Maxwell: A Checklist of the Primary Sources”
Review-Essays
Valerie M. Smith, “American Tapestry”
Robert A. Hill, “George S. Schuyler: Anti-Black No More”

Reviews
Scott E. Casper et al., eds., A History of the Book in America, Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840–1880, reviewed by David M. Stewart; Thomas Philbrick and Marianne Philbrick, eds., Afloat and Ashore, or The Adventures of Miles Wallingford, 2 vols., by James Fenimore Cooper, reviewed by Luis A. Iglesias; Wayne Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years, reviewed by Jeffrey Walker; Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson, The Emerson Brothers: A Fraternal Biography in Letters, reviewed by Linck Johnson; Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau’s Concord, reviewed by Leslie Eckel; Douglas Robillard, ed., John Marr and Other Sailors with Some Sea-Pieces, by Herman Melville, reviewed by Hester Blum; Daniel Shealy, ed., Alcott in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates, reviewed by Christine Doyle; Hermione Lee, Edith Wharton, reviewed by Carol J. Singley; Stephen W. Hines, ed., Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks, reviewed by Anita Clair Fellman; Donald Pizer, ed., Theodore Dreiser: A Picture and a Criticism of Life—New Letters, reviewed by Jerome Loving; Cynthia Hogue and Julie Vandivere, eds., The Sword Went Out to Sea: (Synthesis of a Dream), by Delia Alton, by H.D., reviewed by Lara Vetter; Robert W. Lewis and Robert E. Fleming, eds., Under Kilimanjaro, by Ernest Hemingway, reviewed by Timothy L. Barnard; Hilary K. Justice, The Bones of the Others: The Hemingway Text from the Lost Manuscripts to the Posthumous Novels, reviewed by Ellen Andrews Knodt; Anne Wright and Saundra Rose Maley, with Jonathan Blunk, eds., A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright, 2 vols., reviewed by Merrill Leffler; Tony Trigilio, Allen Ginsberg’s Buddhist Poetics, reviewed by Patricia Hillen


Index


Available

Volume 31

December 2007
ISBN-10: 0-404-64631-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-404-64631-8
Cloth $187.50

CONTENTS
Editors’ Note

Prospects 15
Gary Scharnhorst, Prospects for the Study of Bret Harte

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


Index to volume 31 by Heather McHale

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