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Gordon Hutner
Editorial Note
American Literary History Advance Access published on July 22, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 425-426; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn035 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Russ Castronovo
"On Imperialism, see...": Ghosts of the Present in Cultures of United States Imperialism
American Literary History Advance Access published on May 13, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 427-438; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn025 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Amanda Claybaugh
New Fields, Conventional Habits, and the Legacy of Atlantic Double-Cross
American Literary History Advance Access published on June 3, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 439-448; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn030 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Caroline Levander
Reinventing American Literary History
American Literary History Advance Access published on May 8, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 449-456; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn015 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Bérubé
Canons and Contexts in Context
American Literary History Advance Access published on May 8, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 457-464; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn017 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sandra M. Gustafson
American Literature and the Public Sphere
American Literary History Advance Access published on May 13, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 465-478; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn027 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Douglas Anderson
Re-Reading The Silence of Bartleby
American Literary History Advance Access published on May 13, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 479-486; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn021 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Leonard Cassuto
The Real-Life Myth of the American Family
American Literary History Advance Access published on May 8, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 487-496; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn019 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert S. Levine
Elegant Inconsistencies: Race, Nation, and Writing in Wilson Jeremiah Moses's Afrotopia
American Literary History Advance Access published on May 8, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 497-507; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn016 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen Burt
When Poets Ruled the School
American Literary History Advance Access published on May 8, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 508-520; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn018 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elizabeth Renker
Poets in the Iron-Mills
American Literary History Advance Access published on May 21, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 521-529; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn028 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mary Esteve
Nature's Naturalism
American Literary History Advance Access published on May 13, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 530-538; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn023 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eric Haralson
Race, Canon, and Kenneth Warren's So Black and Blue
American Literary History Advance Access published on May 8, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 539-547; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn020 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Colleen Lye
Form and History in Asian American Literary Studies
American Literary History Advance Access published on May 13, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 548-555; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn024 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Leslie Bow
Playing in the Dark and the Ghosts in the Machine
American Literary History Advance Access published on May 8, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 556-565; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn026 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tol Foster
Against Separatism: Jace Weaver and the Call for Community
American Literary History Advance Access published on May 12, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 566-578; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn013 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joel Pfister
A Usable American Literature
American Literary History Advance Access published on July 17, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 579-588; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn033 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lori Merish
Feeling National, Feeling Global: Class, Sentiment, and American Literary History
American Literary History Advance Access published on May 28, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 589-600; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn029 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Caren Irr
A Challenge to Post-National American Studies: George Yúdice's The Expediency of Culture
American Literary History Advance Access published on May 13, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 601-608; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn022 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

José David Saldívar
Making Democracy Surreal: Political Race and the Miner's Canary
American Literary History Advance Access published on June 3, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 609-621; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn031 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brook Thomas
The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology, or, What's Literature Have to Do with It?
American Literary History Advance Access published on May 8, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 622-631; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn014 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Evan Carton
Profession's Progress; or, The Ways We Are
American Literary History Advance Access published on June 21, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 632-639; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn032 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jennifer L. Fleissner
When the Symptom Becomes a Resource
American Literary History Advance Access published on July 15, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 640-655; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn034 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David R. Shumway
American Literature Coming Apart
American Literary History Advance Access published on July 31, 2008
Am Lit Hist 2008 20: 656-663; doi:10.1093/alh/ajn036 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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