CONTENTS
The Tenth Muses Lately Sprung up in the Americas: The Borders of the Female Subject in Sor Juana’s First Dream and Anne Bradstreet’s “Contemplations”
Suzanne Shimek
The “Squaw’s” Tale: Sympathy and Storytelling in Mary Eastman’s Dahcotah
Joshua David Bellin
“I commend you to Allegany underbrush”: The Subversive Place-made Self in Elizabeth C. Wright’s Treatise on Nature, Lichen Tufts
Daniel Patterson
“A group of people at my disposal”: Humor in the Works of Kate Chopin
Nancy Walker
“Something Coarse and Concealed”: Female Sexuality in Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady
Stephanie Bower
Empty Lots/Lost Canons: The Case of Yale’s “Lady of the Night”
Grace Farrell
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Letters from Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Ward) to S. Weir Mitchell, M.D., 1884-1897
Jennifer S. Tuttle
LEGACY REPRINT
“Dolly Franklin’s Decision”: Sarah Orne Jewett’s Definition of “ A Good Girl”
Charles Johanningsmeier
Dolly Franklin’s Decision: Or How a Boston Girl Brought Sun-shine Into a Home Life
Sarah Orne Jewett
BOOK REVIEWS
Katherine Clay Bassard, Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women’s Writings
Lois Brown
Margit Stange, Personal Property: Wives, White Slaves and the Market in Women
Michele Birnbaum
Susan L. Roberson, ed. And intro., Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation, and Marilyn C. Wesley, Secret Journeys: The Trope of Women’s Travel in American Literature
Lisa M. Logan
Linda O. McMurry, To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells
Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
Laura Hanft Korobkin, Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery
Florence W. Dore
Sharon O’Brien, New Essays on My Ántonia, and Marilee Lindemann, Willa Cather: Queering America
Janis P. Stout