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Abbott, Traci B., “Every Woman’s Share: Female Sexuality in Fannie Hurst’s Imitation of Life,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 634–60.
Adams, Amanda, “‘Painfully Southern’: Gone with the Wind, the Agrarians, and the Battle for the New South,” Southern Literary Journal, 40 (Fall 2007), 58–75.
Ammons, Elizabeth, “The Myth of Imperiled Whiteness and Ethan Frome,” New England Quarterly, 81 (March 2008), 5–33.
Betjemann, Peter, “Henry James’ Shop Talk: The Spoils of Poynton and the Language of Artisanship,” American Literary Realism, 40 (Spring 2008), 204–25.
Ceplair, Larry, “Reporting the Blacklist: Anti-Communist Challenges to Elizabeth Poe Kerby,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 28 (June 2008), 135–51.
Dryer, Trevor D., “‘All the News That’s Fit to Print’: The New York Times, ‘Yellow’ Journalism, and the Criminal Trial, 1898–1902,” Nevada Law Journal, 8 (Winter 2008), 541–69.
Easton, Eric B., “The Colonel’s Finest Campaign: Robert R. McCormick and Near v. Minnesota,” Federal Communications Law Journal, 60 (March 2008), 183–228.
Farca, Paula Anca, “And, You, Miss, Are No Lady: Feminist and Postfeminist Scarlett O’Hara Rethinks the Southern Lady,” Southern Studies, 14 (Spring–Summer 2007), 73–90.
Foster, Jonathan, “Stigma Cities: Birmingham and Las Vegas in the National Newspaper Media, 1945–2000,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 50 (Winter 2007), 297–324.
Gabrial, Brian, “A Woman’s Place: Defiance and Obedience; Newspaper Stories about Women during the Trial of John Brown,” American Journalism, 25 (Winter 2008), 7–29.
Guth, David W., “The Bay Bridge Metonymy: How Maryland Newspapers Interpreted the Opening of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge,” American Journalism, 25 (Spring 2008), 57–83.
Holm, Sharon, “The ‘Lie’ of the Land: Native Sovereignty, Indian Literary Nationalism, and Early Indigenism in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Summer 2008), 243–74.
Hutchison, Phillip J., “Journalism and the Perfect Heat Wave: Assessing the Reportage of North America’s Worst Heat Wave, July–August 1936,” American Journalism, 25 (Winter 2008), 31–54.
Jackson, Lawrence Patrick, “Bucklin Moon and Thomas Sancton in the 1940s: Crusaders for the Racial Left,” Southern Literary Journal, 40 (Fall 2007), 76–97.
Johanningsmeier, Charles, “The 1894 Syndicated Newspaper Appearances of The Red Badge of Courage,” American Literary Realism, 40 (Spring 2008), 226–47.
Keever, Beverly Ann Deepe, “Top Secret: Censoring the First Rough Drafts of Atomic-Bomb History,” Media History (Abingdon), 14 (Aug. 2008), 185–204.
Kirby, Lisa A., “‘How it Grieves the Heart of a Mother [. . .]’: The Intersection of Gender, Class, and Politics in Grace Lumpkin’s To Make My Bread,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 661–77.
Kirk, Andrew Taylor, “Radical Labor, Racism, and the Preservation of Hegemony in Ogden, Territorial Utah, 1885–1886,” American Journalism, 24 (Fall 2007), 149–73.
Kraeplin, Camille, “Two Tales of One City: How Cultural Perspective Influenced the Framing of a Pre–Civil Rights Story in Dallas,” American Journalism, 25 (Winter 2008), 73–97.
Lewis, Norman P., “From Cheesecake to Chief: Newspaper Editors’ Slow Acceptance of Women,” American Journalism, 25 (Spring 2008), 33–55.
McNay, John T., “Breaking the Copper Collar: Press Freedom, Professionalization, and the History of Montana Journalism,” American Journalism, 25 (Winter 2008), 99–123.
Michalek, Krzysztof, “Oni sa z Marsa, my jestesmy z Wenus: New York Times wobec przystapienia Stanów Zjednoczonych do I wojny swiatowej w 1917 r” (They are from Mars, we are from Venus: The New York Times and U.S. access to the First World War in 1917), Dzieje Najnowsze (Warsaw), 39 (no. 4, 2007), 5–16. In Polish.
Miller, Howard, “The Charioteer and the Christ: Ben-Hur in America from the Gilded Age to the Culture Wars,” Indiana Magazine of History, 104 (June 2008), 153–75.
Ossian, Lisa L., “‘Almost an Athens’: Iowa’s Rural Women’s Poetry of Place and Farm Playlets, 1930–1932,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 731–49.
Palmegiano, E. M., “‘BABY–BEER–BULLETS!!!’: British Perceptions of American Journalism in the Nineteenth Century,” American Journalism, 24 (Fall 2007), 37–66.
Prentiss, Craig, “‘Terrible Laughing God’: Challenging Divine Justice in African American Antilynching Plays, 1916–1945,” Religion and American Culture, 18 (Summer 2008), 177–214.
Ramsey, William M., “Frederick Douglass, Southerner,” Southern Literary Journal, 40 (Fall 2007), 19–38.
Ruskin, Steve, “‘Among the Favored Mortals of Earth’: The Press, State Pride, and the Great Eclipse of 1878,” Colorado Heritage (Spring 2008), 22–35. Heavily illustrated.
Spratt, Meg, “When Police Dogs Attacked: Iconic News Photographs and Construction of History, Mythology, and Political Discourse,” American Journalism, 25 (Spring 2008), 85–105. Heavily illustrated.
Stokes, Claudia, “In Defense of Genius: Howells and the Limits of Literary History,” American Literary Realism, 40 (Spring 2008), 189–203.
Tan, Yue, and David H. Weaver, “Agenda-Setting Effects among the Media, the Public, and Congress, 1946–2004,” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 84 (Winter 2007), 729–44.
Thomas, Brook, “Thomas Dixon’s A Man of the People: How Lincoln Saved the Union by Cracking Down on Civil Liberties,” Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, 20 (Spring 2008), 21–42.
Wells, Jonathan Daniel, “A Voice in the Nation: Women Journalists in the Early Nineteenth-Century South,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 9 (June 2008), 165–82.
Wise, Benjamin E., “On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry: Nostalgia, Sex, and the Souths of William Alexander Percy,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Spring 2008), 54–79.
Wixson, Douglas, “Growing Up Radical in Missoula and Butte: Norman Macleod, Poet, Editor, Novelist (1906–1985),” North Dakota Quarterly, 74 (Summer 2007), 7–30.
Zabierowski, Maciej, “‘Naprawde umieramy z glodu’: Prasa amerykanska o gettach w latach, 1939–1941” (‘We are really dying of hunger’: The American press on the situation in Jewish ghettos, 1939–1941), Studia Historyczne, 50 (no. 2, 2007), 193–214.
Ainsworth, Diann Elizabeth Smith, “‘Strangely Tangled Threads’: American Women Writers Negotiating Naturalism, 1850–1900” (Texas Christian University, 2007). Order No. DA3284082.
Anderson, Eric, “Pimps and Ferrets: Copyright and Culture in the United States, 1831–1891” (Bowling Green State University, 2007). Order No. DA3285333.
Arab, Teresa Fernández, “Cultural Identity Revisited: Early Twentieth-Century Women’s Work of Cultural Preservation (María Cristina Mena, Humishuma, Sui Sin Far and the Daughters of Hawai‘i)” (University of Kansas, 2007). Order No. DA3277878.
Blanco, María del Pilar, “Ghost-Watching American Modernity: Haunting the Hemispheric Imaginary” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3284104.
Braun, Sarah Alisa, “Jews, Writing, and the Dynamics of Literary Affiliation, 1880–1940” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287461.
Briante, Susan Carol, “American Ruins: Nostalgia, Amnesia, and Blitzkrieg Bop” (University of Texas, Austin, 2006). Order No. DA3285874.
Chasar, Michael David, “Everyday Reading: U.S. Poetry and Popular Culture, 1880–1945” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281351.
Cleland, Jaime, “‘I Had Always Thought I Was a Yankee’: Creating the Representative American Self in 20th Century Ethnic Autobiography” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3283195.
Crosby, Shelby Lucille, “Over the River and through the Woods: Miscegenation and the American Experiment” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3277744.
Darznik, Jasmin, “Writing outside the Veil: Literature by Women of the Iranian Diaspora” (Princeton University, 2007). Order No. DA3286113.
DiBenedetto, Tamra Elizabeth, “‘How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?’: Walker Percy and the Problematics of Race” (University of California, Riverside, 2007). Order No. DA3281654.
Dieng, Babacar, “The Emergence of Postcolonialism in Mid-Century Novels of the African Diaspora: A Study” (Howard University, 2007). Order No. DA3283236.
Dodman, Trevor R., “Enduring Wounds: Locating Sites of Loss in World War I Fiction” (Boston College, 2007). Order No. DA3288834.
Dunley, Kathleen Ann, “The Space Between: Ruins, Narratives, and History” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2007). Order No. DA3284468.
Genoways, Theodore Howard, “Whitman’s Lost War: America’s Poet during the Forgotten Years of 1860–1862” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281361.
Gillette, Meg, “Modernism’s Scarlet Letter: Plotting Abortion in American Fiction, 1900–1945” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3290239.
Green, Keith Michael, “Master Narratives: Captivity and Nineteenth-Century American Autobiographical Writing, 1816–1861” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287523.
Hirsh-Dickinson, Sally, “Dirty Whites and Dark Secrets: Sex and Race in Peyton Place” (University of New Hampshire, 2007). Order No. DA3290102.
Ihara, Rachel, “Novels on the Installment Plan: American Authorship in the Age of Serial Publication, from Stowe to Hemingway” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3288842.
Irwin-Mulcahy, Judith, “Black Atlas: Geography and Scales of Movement in African American Literature” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3288747.
Jacobson, Lori L., “Agencies and Associations: Women Writing Indian Reform in Nineteenth-Century America” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3277713.
Jecmen, Timothy, “Writing the Revolution: Radicalism and the U.S. Historical Romance, 1835–1860” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289047.
Jones, Leigh Ann, “Common Destiny: Rhetorical Constructions of U.S. Masculine Nationalism from the Boy Scouts to President Bush” (University of Arizona, 2007). Order No. DA3289144.
Keyes, Carl Robert, “Early American Advertising: Marketing and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3288481.
Lamm, Kimberly Kay, “Composing and Contesting the Space of Visibility: Literary and Visual Portraiture in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Culture” (University of Washington, 2007). Order No. DA3289768.
Leise, Christopher, “A Covenant in Fiction: Legacies of Puritanism in the Post-War American Novel” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3277776.
Merlino, Matthew, “Contemporary Historical Fiction and the Unsettling of America” (University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3292054.
Mrozowski, Daniel J., “Tracing the Corporation: The Cultural Imagination of Business in American Literary Realism, 1865–1917” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287587.
Muzak, Joanne Marie, “High Lives/Low Lives: Women’s Narratives of Drug Addiction” (University of Alberta, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR33035.
Nichols, Jennifer, “Stuck in Go: The Radical Exclusion of ‘Mobile Women’ in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature” (Michigan State University, 2007). Order No. DA3282172.
Pelletier, Kevin D., “Apocalyptic Incarnations: The Aesthetics of Fear and Catastrophe in the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3277706.
Ponder, Benjamin, “Independence Unfurled: Common Sense and the Constitution of the American Public” (Northwestern University, 2007). Order No. DA3284174.
Quinn, Katrina J., “Journalism, Letters, and Nation: The Newspaper Letters of Samuel Bowles’s Across the Continent (1865)” (Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Order No. DA3284289.
Rangno, Erik Von Rauterberg, “Bonds against Their Nature: The Political Aesthetic of Transnationalism in American Literature, 1850–1920” (University of California, Irvine, 2007). Order No. DA3282821.
Rosen, Jody Rachel, “‘People Don’t Want to Marry Me. People Want to Marry Me. I Don’t Want to Marry People’: Marriage-Plot Subversion through Repetition in Anglo-American Fiction of the 1920s” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3288750.
Schlueter, Jennifer, “Our Lively Arts: American Culture as Theatrical Culture, 1922–1931” (Ohio State University, 2007). Order No. DA3286759.
Shelton, Vanessa, “Interpretive Community and the Black Press: Racial Equality and Politics in ‘The St. Louis American’ and ‘The St. Louis Argus,’ 1928–1956” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281406.
Smith, Jeffrey Ross, “Hazardous Reconstitutions: Imitation and the Production of the Self in Late Nineteenth-Century American Fiction” (University of California, Davis, 2007). Order No. DA3283038.
Sommers, Joseph Michael, “The Inheritance of Modernism: Contemporary Children’s Literature and the Construction of New Chronotopes in the United States and Great Britain” (University of Kansas, 2007). Order No. DA3277950.
Swenson, Jeffrey Charles, “Canoe Passages: Cross-Cultural Conveyance in U.S. and Canadian Literature” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281410.
Tydlaska, Faye Felterman, “Between Nation and Empire: Representations of the Haitian Revolution in Antebellum Literary Culture” (Tulane University, 2007). Order No. DA3285427.
Van Dahm, Stacey, “Nationalism and Narratives of Subjectivity in the Cold War Imaginary” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007). Order No. DA3283665.
Wagers, Kelley, “Beginning Again Then: History, Progress, and American Modernism” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3277728.
Wilhite, Keith M., “Framing Suburbia: U.S. Literature and the Postwar Suburban Region, 1945–2002” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281419.
Wing-Paz, Elizabeth, “Subverting History: Orality and Place in the Novel of the Americas” (University of California, Davis, 2007). Order No. DA3278320.
Buhle, Paul, ed., Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form. (New York: New Press, 2008. x, 198 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-59558-331-4.) Heavily illustrated.
Edmunds, Susan, Grotesque Relations: Modernist Domestic Fiction and the U.S. Welfare State. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. x, 258 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-19-533853-9.)
Hill, Daniel Delis, As Seen in Vogue: A Century of American Fashion in Advertising. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2004. xii, 226 pp. Paper, $36.95, isbn 978-0-89672-616-1.) Heavily illustrated.
Paxton, Mark, Censorship. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xiv, 154 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-313-33751-2.)
Ronda, Bruce A., Reading the Old Man: John Brown in American Culture. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2008. xxii, 218 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-57233-620-9.)
Vitek, Jack, The Godfather of Tabloid: Generoso Pope Jr. and the National Enquirer. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. viii, 290 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8131-2503-9.)
Caron, James E., Mark Twain: Unsanctified Newspaper Reporter. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. xvi, 448 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1802-5.)
Felton, Harold W., ed., Legends of Paul Bunyan. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxiv, 418 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-8166-5460-4.) Originally published in 1947.
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