All Stories

  1. Hercules Subdued: The Visual Rhetoric of the Kneeling Slave
  2. Strange Birds: Rewriting The Maltese Falcon
  3. Christopher J. Lukasik, Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early America (Philadelphia and Oxford: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, $45.00). Pp. 319. isbn978 0 8122 4287 4. - Ann Fabian, The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and ...
  4. Spreading the Word: The American Tract Society, The Dairyman's Daughter, and Mass Publishing
  5. U.S. Detective Fiction
  6. ‘Am I Not a Man and a Brother?’ Phrenology and Anti-slavery
  7. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Hollis Robbins (eds.), In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on The Bondwoman's Narrative (New York: Basic Civitas Books, 2004, $27.50). Pp. xxii+458. ISBN 0 465 02714 8.
  8. Dred: Intemperate Slavery
  9. Carolyn L. Karcher (ed.), A Lydia Maria Child Reader (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997, £16.95). Pp. 453. ISBN 0 8223 1954 3. Lydia Maria Child, A Romance of the Republic, Dana D. Nelson (ed.), (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997, £...
  10. Stuart Seely Sprague (ed.), The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Undergraduate Railroad (New York: W. W. Norton, 1996, £13.95). Pp. 165. ISBN 0 393 03941 2. Gary Collison. Shadrack Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to C...
  11. Russ Castronovo, Fathering the Nation. American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, £25.00 cloth). Pp. 283. ISBN 0 520 08901 4.
  12. Revisions, Rememories and Exorcisms: Toni Morrison and the Slave Narrative
  13. Wendy Martin (ed.), New Essays on The Awakening (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, £20.00 hardback, £6.95 paper). Pp. 152. ISBN 0 521 31445 3.
  14. Christine Bold, Selling the Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860–1960 (Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1987). Pp. 215. ISBN 0 253 35151 0.
  15. Michael J. Colacurcio (ed.), New Essays on The Scarlet Letter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, £6.95). Pp. 164. ISBN 0 521 31998 6. - Matthew J. Bruccoli (ed.), New Essays on the Great Gatsby (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, £...
  16. Irving Howe, The American Newness: Culture and Politics in the Age of Emerson (Cambridge, Mass. & London: Harvard University Press, 1986, £10.50). Pp. 99. ISBN 0 674 02640 3.
  17. Ruth Miller Elson, Myths and Mores in American Best Sellers, 1865–1965 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1985). Pp. 380. ISBN 0 8240 5667 1.
  18. John W. Crowley, The Black Heart's Truth: The Early Career of W. D. Howells (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985, £19.95). Pp. xviii, 192. ISBN 0 8076 1632 9. - Kenneth E. Eble, Old Clemens and W. D. H.: The Story of a Remarkable Frie...