Contents
Editor’s Note
Forum: Where Are the Women in Black Print Culture Studies?
Obscene Questions and Righteous Hysteria
Joycelyn Moody
Discovering the Woman in the Text: Early African American Print, Gender Studies, and the Twenty-First-Century Classroom
Rian E. Bowie
Beyond Recovery: A Process Approach to Research on Women in Early African American Print Cultures
Barbara McCaskill
Harriet Jacobs and the Lessons of Rogue Reading
Benjamin Fagan
Misinformation and Fluidity in Print Culture; or, Searching for Sojourner Truth and Others
John Ernest
Accessing Early Black Print
Eric Gardner
Essays
“Fascinate, Intoxicate, Transport”: Uncovering Women’s Erotic Dominance in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History
Helen Hunt
Anatomy Lessons: Emily Dickinson’s Brain Poems
Barbara Baumgartner
Lucy Larcom and the Time of the Temporal Collapse
James E. Dobson
Victoria Earle Matthews: Making Literature during the Woman’s Era
Kerstin Rudolph
“A Reading Problem”: Margaret Lynn, Jean Stafford, and Literary Criticism of the American West
Cathryn Halverson
From the Archives
A New Digital Divide: Recovery Editing in the Age of Digitization
Jean Lee Cole
Legacy Reprint
Victoria Earle Matthews’s Short Stories
Kerstin Rudolph
“Eugenie’s Mistake”
Victoria Earle [Matthews]
“Zelika—A Story”
Victoria Earle [Matthews]
Book Reviews
Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature, by Kevin Pelletier, and The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion, by Claudia Stokes
Marianne Noble
Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature, by David Greven
Holly Jackson
The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America, by Corinne T. Field
Sari Edelstein
Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism, edited by Jana L. Argersinger and Phyllis Cole
Michelle Kohler
Emily Dickinson in Context, edited by Eliza Richards, and A Kiss from Thermopylae: Emily Dickinson and Law, by James R. Guthrie
Mary Kuhn
Thinking Outside the Book, by Augusta Rohrbach
Julia Dauer
Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women’s Writing, by Sari Edelstein
Maura D’Amore
