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- Survival Politics and Sacrificial Transmediation: Liu Xiaobo and Signature Event Context
- Reckoning with the Rogue: Calculation, Narration, and the Incomplete Scene of Accountability in J. M. Lee's The Boy from Paradise
- Relayed Revolutionary Sentiment: Chinese Appropriation of Russian Nihilism in Popular Literature
- Peripheral Modernisms and Parody of the Bildungsroman: A Comparative Case Study on Italo Svevo and A. H. Tanpinar
- Nora Helmer and Thora Helmer: Henrik Ibsen at Play with the Vaudeville
- The Destruction of the Voice
- Unsettling Sound Studies
- Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives ed. by Eleanor Ty (review)
- Graphic Public Health: A Comics Anthology and Road Map by Meredith Li-Vollmer (review)
- The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada by Sonja Boon, Laurie McNeill, Julie Rak, and Candida Rifkind (review)
- Disability as Intersectional Identity: Some Reflections on Indian Disabled Life Narratives
- The Me in the Poster: Mirrors, Photographs, and “Crip Double Consciousness” in Connie Panzarino’s Memoir
- Dream House as Queer Testimony: Ephemera as Evidence in Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House
- Brother Outsider: Memoir and the Strategies of the Awkward Black
- Recovering Memories of Holocaust Displacement and Survival in Contemporary (Auto)biographical Comics: On the Collaborative Volume But I Live
- Collective Biography and Micro-periodization: A Data-Rich Analysis of Recent Lives in the Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1901)
- Memoir, Utopia, and Belonging in the Postcolony: Akash Kapur’s Better to Have Gone
- As Told by Herself: Women’s Childhood Autobiography, 1845–1969 by Lorna Martens (review)
- Authorizing Early Modern European Women: From Biography to Biofiction ed. by James Fitzmaurice, Naomi J. Miller, and Sara Jayne Steen (review)
- Women’s Life Writing in Post-Communist Romania: Reclaiming Privacy and Agency by Simona Mitroiu (review)
- Feminists Reclaim Mentorship: An Anthology by Nancy K. Miller and Tahneer Oksman, editors (review)
- Memoirs of Race, Color, and Belonging by Nicole Stamant (review)
- Black Travel Writing: Contemporary Narratives of Travel to Africa by African American and Black British Authors by Isabel Kalous (review)
- Building that Bright Future: Soviet Karelia in the Life Writing of Finnish North Americans by Samira Saramo
- In Sickness and in Health: Surviving Marriage in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ Gates Pentalogy
- Victorian Poets and the Later Realism of Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
- A World Made Flesh: Ecologies of Health in Rebecca Harding Davis’ Life in the Iron Mills
- Helen Hunt Jackson, Indigeneity, and the Borders of Regionalism in Western American Literature
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman on the Suffrage Movement: A Recovered Document
- Emily Dickinson’s GPS
- Mark Twain, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Head Readers: Literature, Humor, and Faddish Phrenology by Stanley Finger (review)
- For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told by Charles Warren Stoddard, and: A Marsh Island by Sarah Orne Jewett (review)
- Brief Reviews
- California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal by Monique McDade (review)
- American Energy Cinema ed. by Robert Lifset, Raechel Lutz, and Sarah Stanford-McIntyre (review)
- The Films of Wallace Fox ed. by Gary D. Rhodes and Joanna Hearne (review)
- We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration by Frank Abe and Tamiko Nimura (review)
- Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West by Bryce Andrews (review)
- Red Dead Redemption: History, Myth, and Violence in the Video Game West ed. by John Wills and Esther Wright (review)
- "A Convenient Hallway for Men to Pass Through": Chicana Adolescence and the San Diego City Space in Patricia Santana's Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility
- Post Nature Ecology in Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 and Nightland
- The Garden Palimpsest: Space, Time, and the Anthropocene in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes
- Transnationalism and Imperialism: Endurance of the Global Western Film ed. by Hervé Mayer and David Roche (review)
- Western Journeys by Teow Lim Goh (review)
- Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and Just Transition by Matthew S. Henry (review)
- The Most Beautiful Place on Earth: Wallace Stegner in California by Matthew D. Stewart (review)
- Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre by Michael K. Johnson (review)
- Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos by Myrriah Gómez (review)
- Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems by Dionne Brand (review)
- Marvel (the Word) by Ellen Lytle, and: Day True by Roberta Gould (review)
- When the World Walks toward You by Myra Shapiro (review)
- The Country Where Everyone's Name Is Fear: Selected Poems by Boris and Ludmila Khersonsky (review)
- An Alphabet by Henry Weinfield (review)
- Zeina Azzam's "Hedge against Hardship": A Conversation with the Poet Laureate of Alexandria, Virginia
- On Contemporary Theory: An Interview with Jeffrey R. Di Leo
- Glitch Poetics by Nathan Allen Jones (review)
- That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy by Lou Perez (review)
- Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art by Darsie Alexander and Sam Sackeroff (review)
- Surrealist Muse by Anne Whitehouse, and: Escaping Lee Miller by Anne Whitehouse, and: Frida by Anne Whitehouse (review)
- Scenes: MadHat Press: An Interview with Marc Vincenz
- Elegy for Elegy
- Intellectual Civility and Engaged Pluralism: Remembering the Singular Accomplishments of Richard Jacob Bernstein (1932–2022)
- The Last Dictionary
- The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theories since the 1950s: "A Plot to Make Us Look Foolish" by Katharina Thalmann (review)
- It's the Algorithm, Stupid!
- Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 by Clare Birchall and Peter Knight (review)
- A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy by Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum (review)
- Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region by Scott Radnitz (review)
- Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe: Tropes and Trends ed. by Anastasiya Astapova et al. (review)
- Conspiracy Theories and Latin American History: Lurking in the Shadows by Luis Roniger and Leonardo Senkman (review)
- Perennial Conspiracy Theory: Reflections on the History of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" by Michael Hagemeister (review)
- Contemporary Conspiracy Culture: Truth and Knowledge in an Era of Epistemic Instability by Jaron Harambam (review)
- The Heartbreak of Desire
- An Old Poem That Tells You How to Have Beautiful Children
- Prize for the Fire: A Novel by Rilla Askew (review)
- Forgotten Night by Rebecca Goodman, and: Lilith Walks by Susan M. Schultz (review)
- Porgy & Bess by Miles Davis by George Gershwin by Dubose Heyward by Jeffrey DeShell (review)
- Water Memory: A Novel by Tom Strelich (review)
- The Nomad in Situ, or, the Man of the Crowd in the Time of COVID
- Speaking in Translation, or Speaking in Tongues
- Transscalar Critique: Climate, Blackness, Crisis by Henry Ivry (review)
- Un-American Dreams: Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Disimagined Community, and Bad Hope in the American Century by J. Jesse Ramírez (review)
- The Eye that is Language: A Transatlantic View of Eudora Welty by Danièle Pitavy-Souques (review)
- Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature by Jolene Hubbs (review)
- The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr by Jack Parlett (review)
- Song Noir: Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles by Alex Harvey (review)
- Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America by Denise Gigante (review)
- Art, Theory, Revolution: The Turn to Generality in Contemporary Literature by Mitchum Huehls (review)
- Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession by Christen Mucher (review)
- Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre by Marcia Noe (review)
- Freedom Beyond Confinement: Travel and the Imagination in African American Cultural History and Letters by Michael Ra-Shon Hall (review)
- Will the US Survive the Frog? Time and History in the Pandemic and Decline
- The Styles of Style
- Sand, Water, Salt: Managing the Elements in Literature of the American West, 1880-1925 by Jada Ach (review)
- Ain't I An Anthropologist: Beyond the Literary Icon by Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall (review)
- Chinese Whispers: Toward a Transpacific Poetics by Yunte Huang (review)
- The American Pipe Dream: Performance of Drug Addiction, 1890 – 1940 by Max Shulman (review)
- Sound Recording Technology & American Literature: From the Phonograph to the Remix by Jessica E. Teague (review)
- Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis by Sara Marcus (review)
- From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect by Greta Olson (review)
- Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism by Cynthia J. Davis (review)
- Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Lara Langer Cohen (review)
- Trusts, Trust, and Trust: Hernan Diaz's Liberal Pedagogy
- Remaking Early American Literary Studies (Again)
- Eliot's Statements
- "Foul Abolition Calumny": Reframing Racial Violence in William Wells Brown's Clotel & the Antebellum Press
- Commemorative Impulses in the "Heart of America": Kansas City, the Great War, and Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy
- Harlem, USSR: Black Modernism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1937
- Un/published: Presence and Absence in Contemporary Erasure Poetry
- Up From the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times by Aaron Sachs (review)
- The Work of Literature in the Age of the Refugee
- Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Participation: Democracy, Rights and Modernist Authorship, 1909-1933 by Isabelle Parkinson (review)
- Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology ed. by Marlene L. Daut, Grégory Pierrot, and Marion C. Rohrleitner (review)
- Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgée ed. by Sandra M. Gustafson and Robert Levine (review)
- Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State by Kathryn Walkiewicz (review)
- Engaging Italy. American Women's Utopian Visions and Transnational Networks by Etta Madden (review)
- Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege ed. by Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien (review)
- Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black & Latinx Literatures by Jose O. Fernandez (review)
- The American Weird: Concept and Medium ed. by Julius Greve and Florian Zappe (review)
- Black Utopia: Speculative Life and the Music of Other Worlds by Jayna Brown (review)
- Introduction: America the Beautiful? Regionalism and Indigeneity
- Ella Higginson, Pacific Northwest Indigeneity, and National Identity
- Telling the Story of the "Stranger People": Archaeological Imaginaries and Indigenous Encounters in Mary Noailles Murfree's Regionalist Fiction
- Vegetal Variability: Gender, Regionalism, and the Spontaneous Movement of Plants
- Playing at Empire: Sexuality, Artistry, and Indian Play as Technologies of Colonization in The Song of the Lark
- A Nation of Suburbans: Standardizing American Life, Language, and Literature
- Consuming Empire in U.S. Fiction, 1865–1930 by Heather Diane Wayne (review)
- Literature in Transition, 1876–1910 ed. by Lindsay V. Reckson (review)
- Walt Whitman and the Making of Jewish American Poetry by Dara Barnat (review)
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Transcendentalism
- Hawthorne
- Melville
- Whitman and Dickinson
- Mark Twain
- Henry James
- Wharton and Cather
- Pound and Eliot
- Faulkner
- Fitzgerald and Hemingway
- Literature to 1800
- Early-19th-Century Literature
- Late-19th-Century Literature
- Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s
- Fiction: The 1930s to the 1960s
- Fiction: The 1960s to the 1980s
- Fiction: The 1980s to the Present
- Poetry: 1900 to the 1950s
- Poetry: The 1950s to the Present
- Drama
- International Scholarship: i Central European Contributions, 2019–2020
- International Scholarship: ii French Contributions
- International Scholarship: iii Italian Contributions
- International Scholarship: iv Japanese Contributions, 2019-2020
- International Scholarship: v Nordic Contributions
- General Reference Works
- Foreword
- Federalist Criticism and the Fate of Genius
- Comparative Literary Studies of the Americas
- The Cultural Logic of Euthanasia: "Sad Fancyings" in Herman Melville's "Bartleby"
- Turning from the National to the Multilingual
- "Prismatic and Profitable": Commerce and the Corporate Person in James's "The Jolly Corner"
- "The Public Heart": Urban Life and the Politics of Sympathy in Lydia Maria Child's Letters from New York
- "A Plea for Color": Nella Larsen's Iconography of the Mulatta
- Banking on Emotion: Financial Panic and the Logic of Male Submission in the Jacksonian Gothic
- Anniversaries and "Whispering Ambitions": American Literature at 75
- Literary Rebels: A History of Creative Writers in Anglo-American Universities by Lise Jaillant (review)
- Creative Lives: Interviews with Contemporary South Asian Diaspora Writers ed. by Chandani Lokugé and Chris Ringrose (review)
- Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora by Claudia Yaghoobi (review)
- Erratum
- Saprophytic: Decomposition and Tropical Environmental Time in Caribbean Literature
- "Odd but recognizable": Indigenous Epistemologies and Indo-Creole Belonging in Cyril Dabydeen's Dark Swirl
- Power, Painting, and Poetry: Mixed-Race Ekphrasis in Natasha Trethewey's Thrall
- Dancing Bodies in Zadie Smith's Swing Time
- Camptown Dwelling: Environment and Survival in Memories of My Ghost Brother
- Text and Image in Women's Life Writing: Picturing the Female Self ed. by Valérie Baisnée-Keay et al. (review)
- The Photographer as Autobiographer by Arnaud Schmitt (review)
- The Human Rights Graphic Novel: Drawing it Just Right by Pramod K. Nayar (review)
- New Forms of Self-Narration: Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights by Ana Belén Martínez García (review)
- Transnational Perspectives on Artists' Lives ed. by Marleen Rensen and Christopher Wiley (review)
- False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction by Julie Rak (review)
- Global Biographies: Lived History as Method ed. by Laura Almagor, Haakon A. Ikonomou, and Gunvor Simonsen (review)
- Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene ed. by Ina Batzke, Lea Espinoza Garrido, and Linda M. Hess (review)
- Autobiography, Memory and Nationhood in Anglophone Africa by David Ekanem Udoinwang and James Tar Tsaaior (review)
- Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories by Adetayo Alabi (review)
- Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing by Jocelyn Fenton Stitt (review)
- Minor Salvage: The Korean War and Korean American Life Writings by Stephen Hong Sohn (review)
- Negotiating Racial Politics in the Family: Transnational Histories Touched by National Socialism and Apartheid by Barbara Henkes (review)
- Dead Men Telling Tales: Napoleonic War Veterans and the Military Memoir Industry, 1808–1914 by Matilda Greig (review)
- Material Ambitions: Self-Help and Victorian Literature by Rebecca Richardson (review)
- Speculative Biography: Experiments, Opportunities and Provocations ed. by Donna Lee Brien and Kiera Lindsey (review)
- Our Hearts Are Restless: The Art of Spiritual Memoir by Richard Lischer (review)
- Magical Habits by Monica Huerta (review)
- The Art of Identification: Forensics, Surveillance, Identity ed. by Rex Ferguson, Melissa M. Littlefield, and James Purdon (review)
- Editors' Note
- Exvangelical (De)conversion Narratives and the Religious Politics of Spiritual Autobiography
- Psychoanalytic Readings of the Soul: The Birth of Psychography and the New Strategies of Psycholiterary Portraiture
- "With Its Shadows Dominating the Brightness": Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother and the Subjects of AIDS History
- Between Genre and Medium: Hilda Tablet, Henry Reed's Fictional Metabiography for Radio
- "Beyond the Front, Specificity Is Abandoned": Illustrating Backgrounds in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
- Testimonial Imperative, Collective Autobiography, and Individual Stories of #MeToo on Twitter
- Biobibliographical Studies of Georgian Writers
- Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction ed. by Julia Novak and Caitríona Ní Dhúill (review)
- Gender, Commerce, and the Restoration Book Trade: Mapping the Bookscape of Hannah Wolley's The Ladies Directory (1661)
- Subscription Publishing and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Indian Print Culture
- Ni Kinidi/Making Book: Textual Mobility in 1830s Cape Palmas, West Africa
- "Adapted to the Soldier's Pocket": Military Discipline, Religious Publishing, and the Power of Print Format during the US Civil War
- Margins of Error: Edmund Blunden Annotates Good-bye to All That
- The British Book Society and the American Book-of-the-Month Club, 1929–1949: Joint Choices and Transatlantic Connections
- "As accurate as memory": The Making of Basil H. Johnston's Indian School Days
- "Distributed 'Blackishness'": The Uses of Black American Poets among Candidates of the 2020 US Democratic Primaries
- Entre majorations ambiguës et minorations créatrices : la traduction des épopées orales d’Afrique et d’Asie en langues occidentales
- Lire les littératures anciennes (grecque et chinoise) comme des littératures mineures
- Introduction
- Flemish Literature and World Literature
- Acting Like a White Woman: Cynthia Jele’s Black South African Chick Lit Novel Happiness Is a Four-Letter Word (2010) as New Weltliteratur
- From Major to Minor: Swedish Working-Class Fiction in the UK and the US
- Double Consciousness Squared: James Baldwin and the Minorities of World Literature
- A Journey into Mapuche Memory: Self-Translation and Postmemory as a Strategy of World Literature in Liliana Ancalao’s Rokiñ (2020)
- L’entrée sur la scène internationale d’un écrivain tamoul : édition, traduction et réception des œuvres de Shobasakthi
- Introduction: Communist World Poetics
- Indigenous Internationalism and the Art of Recognition: A Soviet Trace on a Global Stage
- Romanticism, Internationalism, and the National Poet: Genealogies of Second-World Surrogacy
- Cold War Kreutzer: Tolstoy's Posthumous Political Career from Venice to Palestine
- Forms of Translation, Translation of Forms: From Gorky's Mother to Mahasweta Devi's Mother of 1084
- The Brazilian Eisenstein (1961–1981)
- Raising Malcolm's Ghost: Black Radicalism, Third Word Internationalism, and Counterintelligence in Lauren Wilkinson's American Spy