CONTENTS
Dissent and the Daughter in A New England Tale and Hobomok
Nancy F. Sweet
Writing Region from the Hub: Sherwood Bonner’s Travel Letters and Questions of Postbellum U.S. Southern Identity
Kathryn McKee
An Elaborate Pretense for the Major: Making Up the Face of the Postbellum Nation
Carolyn Hall
Eunice and the Jade Gods: Jewett’s Religious Rhetoric in A Country Doctor
Terry Heller
Marriage and the Immigrant Narrative: Anzia Yezierska’s Salome of the Tenements
Natalie Friedman
LEGACY PROFILE
Mildred Walker (1905–1998)
Carmen Pearson
BOOK REVIEWS
From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry by Mary Loeffelholz
Faith Barrett
The Hermaphrodite by Julia Ward Howe, edited and with an introduction by Gary Williams
Renée Bergland
Writing for Immortality: Women Writers and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America by Anne E. Boyd
Felicia L. Carr
Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism by Jennifer L. Fleissner
Melanie Dawson
María Amparo Ruiz de Burton: Critical and Pedagogical Perspectives edited by Amelia María de la Luz Montes and Anne Elizabeth Goldman
Ella Maria Diaz
A Passionate Usefulness: The Life and Literary Labors of Hannah Adams by Gary D. Schmidt
Michael Everton
Jane Grey Swisshelm: An Unconventional Life, 1815–1884 by Sylvia D. Hoffert
Grace Farrell
Jane Addams: A Writer’s Life by Katherine Joslin
Grace Farrell
Mary Austin’s Regionalism: Reflections on Gender, Genre, and Geography by Heike Schaefer
Betsy Klimasmith
The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism And the Literary Public Sphere by Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
Caroline Levander
In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on The Bondwoman’s Narrative edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Hollis Robbins
Shirley Wilson Logan
Out in Public: Configurations of Women’s Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America by Alison Piepmeier
Patricia Okker
Victoria Woodhull’s Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America by Amanda Frisken
Patricia Okker
Writers of Conviction: The Personal Politics of Zona Gale, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rose Wilder Lane, and Josephine Herbst by Julia C. Ehrhardt
Jennifer Parchesky
A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson edited by Vivian R. Pollack
Elizabeth A. Petrino
The Gardens of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr with a chapter by Louise Carter
Elizabeth A. Petrino