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Banta, Martha, “Raw, Ripe, Rot: Nineteenth-Century Pathologies of the American Aesthetic,” American Literary History, 17 (Winter 2005), 666–86.
Benoit, William L., Kevin A. Stein, and Glenn J. Hansen, “New York Times Coverage of Presidential Campaigns,” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 82 (Summer 2005), 356–76.
Brazeal, Donald K., “Precursor to Modern Media Hype: The 1830s Penny Press,” Journal of American Culture, 28 (Dec. 2005), 405–14.
Byrd, Alexander X., “Eboe, Country, Nation, and Gustavus Vassa’s Interesting Narrative,” William and Mary Quarterly, 63 (Jan. 2006), 123–48.
Carmichael, James V., Jr., “Southern Librarianship and the Culture of Resentment,” Libraries & Culture, 40 (Summer 2005), 324–52.
Clark, Thomas, “No Masters, No Masses: The American Dream of a Republican (Political) Culture in Rush, Cooper, and Bourne,” in Popular Culture and Democracy: An Easy/Uneasy Relationship, ed. Michal Peprník and Matthew Sweney, 20–60. (Olomouc: vup, 2004. isbn 80-244-0809-0.)
Cole, John Y., “The Library of Congress Becomes a World Library, 1815–2005,” Libraries & Culture, 40 (Summer 2005), 385–98.
Dwayne, Eutsey, “Was Huck a Unitarian? Christian Liberalism, Joseph Twichell, and Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn,” Soundings, 88 (Spring–Summer 2005), 43–70.
Flint, Kate, “Women and Reading,” Signs, 31 (Winter 2006), 511–36.
Foster, Frances Smith, “A Narrative of the Interesting Origins and (Somewhat) Surprising Developments of African-American Print Culture,” American Literary History, 17 (Winter 2005), 714–40.
Goddard, Ives, “‘I am a Red-Skin’: The Adoption of a Native American Expression, 1769–1826,” European Review of Native American Studies (Vienna), 19 (no. 2, 2005), 1–20.
Goedeken, Edward A., “Assessing What We Wrote: A Review of the Libraries & Culture Literature Reviews, 1967–2002,” Libraries & Culture, 40 (Summer 2005), 251–66.
Goodwin, C. James, “Reorganizing the Experimentalists: The Origins of the Society of Experimental Psychologists,” History of Psychology, 8 (Nov. 2005), 347–61.
Huebner, Andrew J., “Rethinking American Press Coverage of the Vietnam War, 1965–1968,” Journalism History, 31 (Fall 2005), 150–61.
Kitch, Carolyn, “‘A Genuine, Vivid Personality’: Newspaper Coverage and Construction of a ‘Real’ Advertising Celebrity in a Pioneering Publicity Campaign,” Journalism History, 31 (Fall 2005), 122–37.
Krummel, Donald W., “Early American Imprint Bibliography and Its Stories: An Introductory Course in Bibliography Civics,” Libraries & Culture, 40 (Summer 2005), 239–50.
MacNeil, Deneise, “Mary Rowlandson and the Foundational Mythology of the American Frontier Hero,” Women’s Studies, 34 (Dec. 2005), 625–53.
Malone, Cheryl Knott, Hermina G. B. Anghelescu, and John Mark Tucker, eds., “Perceiving the Past: Essays Honoring the Legacy of Donald G. Davis Jr.,” Libraries & Culture, 40 (Summer 2005), 223–491. Special issue.
Manheim, Daniel L., “‘Have We Not a Hymn?’ Dickinson and the Rhetoric of New England Revivalism,” New England Quarterly, 78 (Sept. 2005), 377–406.
Marcellus, Jane, “Moderns or Moms? Body Typing and Employed Women between the World Wars,” Women’s Studies, 34 (Oct. 2005), 551–73.
Martin, Albert William, Jr., “So Much Over So Little? The Libel Suit of James J. Stewart,” Methodist History, 44 (Oct. 2005), 18–28.
May, Robert E., “Reconsidering Antebellum U.S. Women’s History: Gender, Filibustering, and America’s Quest for Empire,” American Quarterly, 57 (Dec. 2005), 1155–88.
Mortimer, John, “Dark Genius,” Railroad History (no. 192, Spring–Summer 2005), 20–29. Heavily illustrated.
Nagler, Jörg, “Nationale Identität in den Vereinigten Staaten des 19. Jahrhunderts” (National identity in the United States during the nineteenth century), in Antrittsvorlesungen der Philosophischen Fakultät der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität (Inaugural lectures of the Friedrich-Schiller-University’s school of humanities), ed. Klaus Manger, 177–98. (Jena: Verlag Friedrich-Schiller Universität, 2005. isbn 3-932218-15-9.) In German.
Nelson, Adam R., “Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the American Scholar in the Nineteenth Century: Thoughts on the Career of William Dwight Whitney,” New England Quarterly, 78 (Sept. 2005), 341–76.
Nissen, Axel, “A Tramp at Home: Huckleberry Finn, Romantic Friendship, and the Homeless Man,” Nineteenth-Century Literature, 60 (June 2005), 57–86.
Passet, Joanne E., “Reading Hilda’s Home: Gender, Print Culture, and the Dissemination of Utopian Thought in Late-Nineteenth-Century America,” Libraries & Culture, 40 (Summer 2005), 307–23.
Sagredo Santos, Antonia, “El discurso de la prensa madrileña de la Segunda República ante las elecciones presidenciales Estadounidenses de 1932” (Madrid newspapers report on the American presidential elections of 1932 during the Second Republic), Historia y Comunicación Social (Madrid), 10 (2005), 201–19. In Spanish.
Shaheen, Aaron, “‘The Social Dusk of That Mysterious Democracy’: Race, Sexology, and the New Woman in Henry James’s The Bostonians,” atq: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, 19 (Dec. 2005), 281–96.
Towne, Stephen E., “Works of Indiscretion: Violence against the Democratic Press in Indiana during the Civil War,” Journalism History, 31 (Fall 2005), 138–49.
Watts, Jennifer A., “Photography in the Land of Sunshine: Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Regional Ideal,” Southern California Quarterly, 87 (Winter 2005–2006), 339–76. Heavily illustrated.
Wertheimer, Andrew B., “Quantifying the ‘Goodness’ of Library History Research: A Bibliometric Study of the Journal of Library History/Libraries & Culture,” Libraries & Culture, 40 (Summer 2005), 267–84.
Wiegand, Wayne, “Collecting Contested Titles: The Experience of Five Small Public Libraries in the Rural Midwest, 1893–1956,” Libraries & Culture, 40 (Summer 2005), 368–84.
Abel, Jonathan E., “Pages Crossed: Tracing Literary Casualties in Transwar Japan and the United States” (Princeton University, 2005). Order No. DA3169722.
Adkinson, Cary Dale, “Power and Responsibility: Media, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Ideology in The Amazing Spider-Man” (Sam Houston State University, 2005). Order No. DA3171974.
Becnel, Kim E., “Strange Bedfellows: How the Confluence of Art and Big Business in the 1930s and 1940s Created New Opportunities for Authors” (University of South Carolina, 2005). Order No. DA3173138.
Bernath, Michael Thomas, “Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South” (Harvard University, 2005). Order No. DA3173862.
Casey, Jay H., “Keep ’em Laughin’: The Work of American Soldier Cartoonists during the World Wars” (University of Houston, 2005). Order No. DA3167470.
Clary, Amy, “Textual Terrain: Wilderness in American Literature, Law, and Culture” (University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 2005). Order No. DA3167947.
Faflik, David, “To the Boardinghouse: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840–1860” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005). Order No. DA3170429.
Gayton, Erin, “A Problem of Possession: Marriage and Property in American Literature, 1850–1900” (University of California, San Diego, 2005). Order No. DA3169318.
Groeninger, David V., “Chicago Imagined: The Role of Newspaper Columnists in Creating a City of the Mind, 1890–1930” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3175764.
Hole, Heather, “‘America as landscape’: Marsden Hartley and New Mexico, 1918–1924” (Princeton University, 2005). Order No. DA3169730.
Hubenthal, John, “A Life in the Newspapers: The American Press and George Grosz, 1922 to 1959” (Virginia Commonwealth University, 2005). Order No. DA3177615.
Hutchison, Phillip J., “Media, Motives, and White Hopes: The News Media’s Construction of the Era of Jack Johnson, 1908–1915” (University of Utah, 2005). Order No. DA3174398.
Itagaki, Lynn Mie, “Race and Writing in Post–Civil Rights America: Law, Literature, and the Media in the 1992 Los Angeles Uprisings” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2005). Order No. DA3169200.
Karam, Nicoletta, “Kahlil Gibran’s ‘Pen Bond’: Modernism and the Manhattan Renaissance of Arab-American Literature” (Brandeis University, 2005). Order No. DA3166264.
LaTouche, Jason, “Comic Books and Communities of Memory” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005). Order No. DA3170480.
Laws, Richard Wayne, “William James and Historical Mysticism” (University of California, Irvine, 2005). Order No. DA3167927.
MacArthur, Kathleen Laura, “The Things We Carry: Trauma and the Aesthetic in the Contemporary U.S. Novel” (George Washington University, 2005). Order No. DA3167030.
Marvin, Charles, “Nineteenth-Century Professional Culture and the Development of American Authorship” (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2005). Order No. DA3168222.
Odum-Hinmon, Maria E., “The Cautious Crusader: How the Atlanta Daily World Covered the Struggle for African American Rights from 1945 to 1985” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2005). Order No. DA3175115.
Park, Haein, “Rome in America: Protestant Literary Responses to Catholicism, 1865–1940” (University of California, San Diego, 2005). Order No. DA3169315.
Rapp, Anne Barbara, “A Marginalized Voice for Racial Justice: Charlotta Bass and Oppositional Politics, 1914–1960” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Order No. DA3174386.
Smithpeters, Jeffrey Neal, “‘To the latest generation’: Cold War and Post–Cold War U.S. Civil War Novels in Their Social Contexts” (Louisiana State University, 2005). Order No. DA3167160.
Andrews, William L., ed., The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. x, 314 pp. Cloth, $42.50, isbn 0-8078-2994-3. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-8078-5665-7.)
Bradley, Patricia, Women and the Press: The Struggle for Equality. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2005. xxiv, 355 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-8101-2313-4.)
Ebest, Ron, Private Histories: The Writing of Irish Americans, 1900–1935. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. x, 319 pp. Cloth, $58.00, isbn 0-268-02771-4. Paper, $25.00, isbn 0-268-02772-2.)
Graham, Don, ed., Lone Star Literature: From the Red River to the Rio Grande. (New York: Norton, 2006. 733 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-393-05043-2.)
Li, Jin, Wenxue nvxing yu nvxing wenxue: 19shiji Meiguo nvxing xiaoshuojia ji zuopin (Literature on womanhood and feminine literature: 19th century United States womanhood novelists and their works). (Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 2004. 437 pp. Y 19.90, isbn 7-5600-2748-2.) In Chinese.
Molnár, László Miklós, A híres vadnyugat (The famous wild west). (Dabas: Reálsazisztéma Dabasi Nyomda, 2003. vi, 344 pp. isbn 963-212-349-2.) In Hungarian.
Simo, Melanie L., Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land before Earth Day 1970. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005. xvi, 271 pp. $39.50, isbn 0-8139-2500-2.)
Steffens, Lincoln, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens. (Berkeley: Heyday, 2005. xx, 882 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 1-59714-016-3.) Originally published in 1931.
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