The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Melissa J. Homestead, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Modern Language Review The essays are uniformly high in quality,

<br>Russ Castronovo is is Dorothy Draheim Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Beautiful Democracy: Aesthetics and Anarchy in a Global Era (University of Chicago Press, 2007); Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Duke UP, 2001), and Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom (University of California Press, 1996).<br>

INTRODUCTION: SHIFTS, ZIGZAGS, IMPACTS ; RUSS CASTRONOVO ; SHIFTS ; 1. PAUL GILES, "ANTIPODEAN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY: WASHINGTON IRVING'S "GLOBULAR" NARRATIVES" ; 2. JOHN ERNEST, "THE ART OF CHAOS: COMMUNITY AND AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERARY TRADITIONS" ; 3. JORDAN STEIN, "ARE 'AMERICAN NOVELS' NOVELS?: MARDI AND THE PROBLEM OF BORING BOOKS" ; 4. ELLEN SAMUELS, READING RACE THROUGH DISABILITY: SLAVERY AND AGENCY IN MARK TWAIN'S PUDD'NHEAD WILSON AND "THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS" ; 5. JESSE ALEMAN, "THE INVENTION OF MEXICAN AMERICA" ; 6. NANCY BENTLEY, "CREOLE KINSHIP: PRIVACY AND THE NOVEL IN THE NEW WORLD" ; 7. SHELLEY STREEBY, "LOOKING AT STATE VIOLENCE: LUCY PARSONS, JOSE MARTI, AND HAYMARKET" ; 8. ANNA BRICKHOUSE, "TRANSATLANTIC VS. HEMISPHERIC: TONI MORRISON'S LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY" ; ZIGZAGS ; 9. ROBERT S. LEVINE, "TEMPORALITY, RACE, AND EMPIRE IN COOPER'S THE DEERSLAYER: THE BEGINNING OF THE END" ; 10. JEFFREY STEELE, "THE VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE CITY: ANTEBELLUM WRITERS AND URBAN SPACE" ; 11. COLLEEN GLENNEY BOGGS, "ANIMALS AND THE FORMATION OF LIBERAL SUBJECTIVITY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE" ; 12. SHIRLEY SAMUELS, "ARCHIVES OF PUBLISHING AND GENDER: HISTORICAL CODES IN LITERARY ANALYSIS" ; 13. GREGORY S. JACKSON, "THE NOVEL AS BOARD GAME: HOMILETIC IDENTIFICATION AND FORMS OF INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE" ; 14. MAURICE S. LEE, "SKEPTICISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY" ; 15. JARED HICKMAN, "ON THE REDUNDANCY OF "TRANSNATIONAL AMERICAN STUDIES" ; IMPACTS ; 16. TRAVIS FOSTER, "HOW TO READ: REGIONALISM AND THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL" ; 17. ELISA TAMARKIN, "LITERATURE AND THE NEWS" ; 18. PAUL GILMORE, "READING MINDS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY" ; 19. ELIZABETH DUQUETTE, "MAKING AN EXAMPLE: AMERICAN LITERATURE AS PHILOSOPHY" ; 20. JAMES DAWES, "ABOLITION AND ACTIVISM: THE PRESENT USES OF LITERARY CRITICISM" ; 21. SUSAN GILLMAN, "WHOSE PROTEST NOVEL? RAMONA, THE UNCLE TOM'S CABIN OF THE INDIAN" ; 22. STEPHANIE LEMENAGER, "NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE WITHOUT NATURE? RETHINKING ENVIRONMENTAL CRITICISM" ; 23. RUSS CASTRONOVO AND DANA D. NELSON, "ACTION, ACTION, ACTION": NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE FOR TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CITIZENSHIP?" ; INDEX