All Stories

  1. Documenting the Real
  2. Roundtable Paul Giles, The Global Remapping of American Literature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, $39.50). Pp. 340. isbn 978 0 6911 3613 4.
  3. Shadow and Substance
  4. Julia A. Stern, Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2009, $45.00/£31.00). Pp. 352. isbn 978 0 226 77328 5.
  5. Introduction: "A Blast That Whirls the Dust": Nineteenth-Century American Poetry and Critical Discontents
  6. The Diary May Be from Dixie But the Editor Is Not: Mary Chestnut and Southern Print History
  7. Truth Stranger than Fiction: Race, Realism, and the U.S. Literary Marketplace
  8. The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (review)
  9. Turning Back the Clock: Black Atlantic Literary Studies
  10. Truth Stranger Than Fiction
  11. Making It Real: The Impact of Slave Narratives on the Literary Marketplace
  12. "You're a Natural-Born Literary Man": Becoming William Dean Howells, Culture Maker and Cultural Marker
  13. All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
  14. To Be Continued: Double Identity, Multiplicity and Antigenealogy as Narrative Strategies in Pauline Hopkins' Magazine Fiction
  15. Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston's Cosmic Comedy.
  16. The Coupling Convention: Sex, Text, and Tradition in Black Women's Fiction.
  17. Violence and the Visual
  18. Executions