Contents
Essays
“My dear Judge”: Owen Wister’s Virginian, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and Natural Law Conservatism
Stephen J. Mexal
The Displaced Aristocrat as Tragic Hero in Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life
Myles Weber
Fables of the Material World in James Ellroy’s Los Angeles
Joshua Meyer
Book Reviews
Carmen Boullosa, Cuando México se (re)apropia de Texas: Ensayos / When Mexico Recaptures Texas: Essays
Lorena Gauthereau
Dominique Brégent-Heald, Borderland Films: American Cinema, Mexico, and Canada during the Progressive Era
Camilla Fojas
Karen R. Jones, Epiphany in the Wilderness: Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West
Lydia R. Cooper
Deborah Fleming, Towers of Myth and Stone: Yeats’s Influence on Robinson Jeffers
Terence Diggory
Steven M. Avella, Charles K. McClatchy and the Golden Era of American Journalism
Mark D. Ludwig
Donna Coates, ed., Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre
Anne Nothof
Tim Sullivan, Ways to the West: How Getting Out of Our Cars Is Reclaiming America’s Frontiers
Carlos A. Schwantes
Eric Magrane and Christopher Cokinos, eds., The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide
Jennifer Lair
David G. Pace, Dream House on Golan Drive
Katherine Bahr
Errata
WLA Conference Information
Submissions
