Volume 39, No. 2 (2022)
Contents
Essays
Narrative Progress as Violence in Susanna Rowson’s Reuben and Rachel
Molly Ball
“Now, Dear Reader, I Was Restored”: Miracle, Autobiography, and Authority in Chloe Willey’s “Short Account”
Nicholas Junkerman
Pseudonymous Was a Woman: Pen Names, Louisa May Alcott, and Feme Covert
Claudia Stokes
“The Sacred Shrine Is Holy Yet”: Rhetorical Memory, Sacred Space, and the Dismantling of Antisemitism in Emma Lazarus’s Poetry
Beth Ann Rothermel
Legacy Profiles
Dora Mitchell/Dolores Michel (1891–1970)
Jennifer S. Tuttle
The Shadowed Witness
Dora L. Mitchell
Book Reviews
The Legacy Book in America, 1664–1792, edited by Roxanne Harde and Lindsay Yakimyshyn
Kaitlin Tonti
Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women’s Poetry, by Jennifer Putzi
Erin Kappeler
The Matrilineal Heritage of Louisa May Alcott and Christina Rossetti, by Azelina Flint
Marlowe Daly-Galeano
Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America, by Brigitte Fielder
Elise Lemire
Heaven’s Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America, by Ashley Reed
Sarah Buchmeier
Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States, by Travis M. Foster
Janet G. Casey
The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis, by Melissa J. Homestead
Marilee Lindemann
H.D. & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism, by Susan McCabe
Sashi Nair