Resources for
American Literary
Study

Articles
George Monteiro, “Herman Melville: Fugitive References (1845–1922)”
Gary Scharnhorst, “Julian Hawthorne’s Contributions to the Pasadena Star-News, 1923–35”
David Roessel, “Three Early Stories by Mike Gold in the New York Call”
Jeffrey Gray, “Postcards and Sunsets: Elizabeth Bishop’s Revisions and the Problem of Excess”
Bryant Mangum, “Altering the Dresses: The Two Versions of Irwin Shaw’s ‘The Girls in Their Summer Dresses’”
Michael Hemmingson, “Raymond Carver’s Rare, Limited, and Special Editions and Broadsides: A Critical Checklist”
Olivia Carr Edenfield, “An Interview with Andre Dubus”
Gary Scharnhorst, “The ‘Lorio’ Letters to the St. Louis Daily Reveille: On Mark Twain, Minstrelsy, Mesmerism, and McDowell’s Cave”

Reviews
David Hall, Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England, reviewed by Jim Egan; Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation, reviewed by Jeffrey H. Richards; Marion Rust, Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson’s Early American Women, reviewed by Anne Baker; Gilbert H. Muller, William Cullen Bryant: Author of America, reviewed by Carl Ostrowski; Shoji Goto, The Philosophy of Emerson and Thoreau: Orientals Meet Occidentals, reviewed by Randall Conrad; Megan Marshall, The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism, reviewed by Julie E. Hall and Katherine Rodier; John Ward Ostrom, Burton K. Pollin, and Jeffrey A. Savoye, eds, The Collected Letters of Edgar Allan Poe, 3rd ed., 2 vols, reviewed by Richard Fusco; Abigail Mellen and Allaire Brisbane Stallsmith, eds., The European Travel Diaries of Albert Brisbane 1830–1832: Discovering Fourierism for America, reviewed by Michael Mattek; Joel Myerson, ed., Fuller in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates, reviewed by Judith Strong Albert; Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, reviewed by Faith Berrett; Daniel Shealy, ed., Little Women Abroad: The Alcott Sisters’ Letters from Europe, 1870–1871, reviewed by Anne K. Phillips; Gary Scharnhorst, Kate Field: The Many Lives of a Nineteenth-Century American Journalist , reviewed by Denise D. Knight; Keith Newlin, Hamlin Garland: A Life, reviewed by Jeffrey Swenson; Shawn St. Jean, ed., “The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition, reviewed by Jennifer S. Tuttle; David Porter, On the Divide: The Many Lives of Willa Cather, reviewed by J. Gabriel Scala Brenda Wineapple, Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein , reviewed by Timothy W. Galow; Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Jack London’s Racial Lives: A Critical Biography, reviewed by Jonah Raskin; Cynthia Davis and Verner D. Mitchell, eds., Western Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance: The Life and Writings of Anita Scott Coleman, reviewed by Laurie Champion; Reuel K. Wilson, To the Life of the Silver Harbor: Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy on Cape Cod, reviewed by James A. Jaap; Mark P. Ott, A Sea of Change: Ernest Hemingway and the Gulf Stream, a Contextual Biography, reviewed by Kirk Curnutt; Matthew J. Bruccoli and Aldo P. Magi, eds., Thomas Wolfe, the Magical Campus: University of North Carolina Writings 1917–1920, reviewed by Shawn Holliday; Rick Wartzman, Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath,” reviewed by Luchen Li Hugh Davis, The Making of James Agee, reviewed by Jeffrey Folks; Margaret Bradham Thornton, ed., Notebooks: Tennessee Williams, reviewed by Allean Hale; Blake Bailey, Cheever: A Life , reviewed by Robert Morace; Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison: A Biography, reviewed by Bernard W. Bell; David Stephen Calonne, ed., Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944–1990, by Charles Bukowski, with an introduction by David Stephen Calonne, reviewed by Gerald Locklin; Brad Gooch, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor, reviewed by John Sykes

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