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ABSTRACTS
- 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
- In Sickness and in Health: Surviving Marriage in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ Gates Pentalogy
- Urdu, Persian, and (Even) English: Triangulating Postcolonial Literary History with The Making Of Persianate Modernity
- From the Persianate World to Multiple Worlds of The Persianate
- Persianate Dialectics
- The Conundrum of Similarity: Tsubouchi Shōyō and H. M. Posnett on the Meaning of Cross-Textual Resemblance
- Wen, Literature, and Belles Lettres: Reconfiguring Chinese Literature in Nineteenth-Century English Sinology
- Reframing Authorship in Abiayala: Marisol Ceh Moo’s Novelistic Production and Authorial Construction
- Jay Wright’s Errant Texts and the Idea of World Literature
- Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery by Auritro Majumder (review)
- The Savage Detectives Reread by David Kurnick (review)
- States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century by Adhira Mangalagiri (review)
- Decolonisations of Literature: Critical Practice in Africa and Brazil After 1945 by Stefan Helgesson (review)
- Comparative Approaches to Persianate Modernity: Forum on Alexander Jabbari’s The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History Between Iran and India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)
- How Modern is the Persianate? Aesthetics and Politics of a Scholarly Category
- Literary Modernism and Literary Modernity in the Middle East
- On Sexuality and Persianate Modernity
- Undocumented Futures: Afrofeminist Conviviality in Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street
- "England was simply a world": George Lamming's The Emigrants as Cultural Decolonization
- Dalit Writing in English: A Dalitification of the History of Indian Writing
- "Lacking Members of Play": Sexual/Textual Politics in J. M. Coetzee's Foe
- Whiteness and the Animal Question: Revisiting Coetzee's Postapartheid South Africa
- (Im)Possibilities of Development: Women and the Paradox of Growth in the Malaysian Novel
- Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race by Ian Smith, and: Shakespeare's White Others by David Sterling Brown (review)
- Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall (review)
- Misreading the Air: Narrative Ambivalence and the Burden of Representation in Dinaw Mengestu's How to Read the Air
- Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre by Michael K. Johnson (review)
- 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
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Foreword
- 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
- Banking on Emotion: Financial Panic and the Logic of Male Submission in the Jacksonian Gothic
- Anniversaries and "Whispering Ambitions": American Literature at 75
- 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
- "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
- 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
- Editor’s Note
- 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
- 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
- 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
- #SAD! Doonesbury in the Time of Trump by Garry Trudeau (review)
- Introduction: The Extremes of Satire
- My Aunt's Abortion by Jane Rosenberg LaForge (review)
- "It's Poetry Because I Say So!": A Conversation with Salome Agbaroji, 2023 National Youth Poet Laureate
- Cry Back My Sea: 48 Poems in 6 Waves by Mark C. Marino (review)
- A Country of Strangers: New and Selected Poems by D. Nurkse (review)
- Lalia by Adam Cornford (review)
- In the Zero of Sky by Tamra Plotnick (review)
- Blue If Only I Could Tell You by Richard Tillinghast (review)
- Blood Secrets: Glimpses into the Hidden Lives of the Conversos by Anita Rodriguez, Joan Ryan, and Andrea Watson (review)
- The Economy of Translation
- Cognitive Mapping Today
- Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks, 1941–1995 ed. by Anna von Planta (review)
- The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins ed. by Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold (review)
- Up the River and into the Words
- Everything I Never Wanted to Know by Christine Hume (review)
- Scenes: Punctum Books: An Interview with Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei and Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy
- On Paradox: The Claims of Theory by Elizabeth S. Anker (review)
- The Collected Poems of Michael Boylan by Michael Boylan (review)
- Writing the Present
- The Question of Jargon
- The Pitch Clock and the Memoir
- A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Marlon Bundo and Jill Twiss, and: Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse by John Lithgow (review)
- Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring by Bassem Youssef (review)
- Bitch Planet, Volume 1: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick, and: Bitch Planet, Volume 2: President Bitch by Kelly Sue DeConnick (review)
- Obi's Nightmare by Chino and Tenso Tenso (review)
- Trump Was a Joke: How Satire Made Sense of a President Who Didn't by Sophia A. McClennen (review)
- Satire as the Comic Public Sphere: Postmodern "Truthiness" and Civic Engagement by James E. Caron (review)
- Faerie Queene Reads Best Fast
- Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States by Dannagal Goldthwaite Young (review)
- Always Crashing in the Same Car: A Novel after David Bowie by Lance Olsen (review)
- Safe Colors: A Novel in Short Fictions by Thaddeus Rutkowski (review)
- Nobody's Pilgrims by Sergio Troncoso (review)
- Admit This to No One by Leslie Pietrzyk (review)
- Hallucinate This! An Authoritized Autobotography of ChatGPT by Mark C. Marino (review)
- You Made Me Love You: Selected Stories, 1981–2018 by John Edgar Wideman (review)
- Rural Asian American Wests: Racial Distance, Cross-Racial Encounter, and Settler Solidarity in the Fiction of Hisaye Yamamoto, Jung Yun, and Linda Sue Park
- A Little Bit of Land by Jessica Gigot (review)
- Knowing Animals, Knowing Land: Interspecies Affectivity and Environment in The Call of the Wild
- Hammer of the Dogs by Jarret Keene (review)
- Outlawed by Anna North (review)
- The Wrong Reader's Guide to Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses by Peter Josyph (review)
- Frontier Fake News: Nevada's Sagebrush Humorists and Hoaxsters by Richard Moreno (review)
- Black Rodeo: A History of the African American Western by Mia Mask (review)
- Indigenous Homelands and Global Refugees: Unpacking Joy Harjo's Solidary Poetics in An American Sunrise
- Boyhood Among the Woolies: Growing Up on a Basque Sheep Ranch by Richard W. Etulain (review)
- The Starlight Hotel Casino by William A. Douglass (review)
- Visible Borders, Invisible Economies: Living Death in Latinx Narratives by Kristy L. Ulibarri (review)
- Science and Literature in Cormac McCarthy's Expanding Worlds by Bryan Giemza (review)
- Fight or Flight: Poems by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum (review)
- More City Than Water: A Houston Flood Atlas ed. by Lacy M. Johnson and Cheryl Beckett (review)
- Don't Fear the Reaper by Stephen Graham Jones (review)
- 58th Western Literature Association Conference
- WLA Awards
- Reverberations of Revolution: Transnational Perspectives, 1770–1850 ed. by Elizabeth Amman and Michael Boyden (review)
- The Varieties of Experience: William James After the Linguistic Turn by Alexis Dianda (review)
- The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels: Spatial History and Literary Practice by Laurie McRae Andrew (review)
- Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African and African Diasporic Women's Fiction by Robin Brooks (review)
- Sarah Orne Jewett's China
- The Power of Caricature, Caricatures of Power
- Progressive Originalism and the New Canon Wars
- Losing the West, Finding Western Worlds
- The Fruits of the LOA
- Consuming Consumption
- Evangelical Time, Separatism, and the "Spiritual Travels of Nathan Cole"
- Bigger's Thing
- Calling the Soul Back: Embodied Spirituality in Chicanx Narrative by Christina Garcia Lopez (review)
- Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem by Jennifer Fleissner (review)
- Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalisation by Stephanie DeGooyer (review)
- The Regional Development of the American Bildungsroman, 1900–1960 by Tamlyn Avery (review)
- Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition by Guy J. Reynolds (review)
- Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth Century Hemispheric American Literature by Jenna Grace Sciuto (review)
- This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America's National Monuments by McKenzie Long (review)
- Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability by Vivian L. Huang (review)
- Staged Readings: Contesting Culture in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835–75 by Michael D'Alessandro (review)
- Chi Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings by Keenan Norris (review)
- A Kiss across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk & US Latinidad by Richard T. Rodríguez (review)
- Let the Wind Speak: Mary de Rachewiltz and Ezra Pound by Carol Loeb Shloss (review)
- White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation's An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order by Maribel Morey (review)
- The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism by Joseph Darda (review)
- Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies by Yen Le Espiritu et al. (review)
- New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair by Jasmine Nicole Cobb (review)
- Fossil Fuel Faulkner: Energy, Modernity, and the US South by Jay Watson (review)
- Obscene Gestures: Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century by Patrick S. Lawrence (review)
- The Left-Armed Corps: Writings by Amputee Civil War Veterans ed. by Allison M. Johnson (review)
- Spontaneity and Form in Modern Prose by Vidyan Ravinthiran (review)
- Nonprofit Poetry: Lewis MacAdams and the Art of Environmental Bureaucracy
- What's Past is Prologue: Democracy in the Age of Originalism
- The Racial Railroad by Julia H. Lee (review)
- Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire by Hugh Foley (review)
- Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work by Joseph B. Entin (review)
- Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World by Anne Stewart (review)
- 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