Studies in American Fiction

Publishes articles, notes, and reviews of the fiction of the United States. The essays provide a historical look at the works of well-known authors such as Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, and Kate Chopin.

The deracinated self: immigrants, orphans, and the "migratory consciou...
September 22, 2007

Bedside manners in Dorothy Parker's "Lady with a Lamp" and Kay Boyle's...
September 22, 2007

Playing on the "darky": blackface minstrelsy, identity construction, a...
September 22, 2007

Sex and salmon: queer identities in Sherman Alexie's the Toughest Indi...
September 22, 2007

"Get your map of America": Tempering dystopia and learning topography....
September 22, 2007

Philomela revisited: traumatic iconicity in Jonathan Safran Foer's Ext...
September 22, 2007

Accounting for value in "The Business Man".(by Edgar Allan Poe)(Critic...
March 22, 2007

"A thousand willing forms": the evolution of Whitman's wounded bodies....
March 22, 2007

The political dimensions of desire in Anzia Yezierska's "The Lost 'Bea...
March 22, 2007

America's missionary evangelicalism in Sinclair Lewis's The God-Seeker...
March 22, 2007

Time will tell: (re)reading the seductive simulacra of Nabokov's Lolit...
March 22, 2007

Cohen, Milton A. Hemingway's Laboratory: The Paris in Our Time.(Heming...
March 22, 2007

Hoffmann, Donald. Mark Twain in Paradise: His Voyages to Bermuda.(Book...
March 22, 2007

Weinstein, Cindy. Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century ...
March 22, 2007

Sundquist, Eric J. Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820-186...
March 22, 2007

Levander, Caroline F. Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, and National...
March 22, 2007

Franco, Dean J. Ethnic American Literature: Comparing Chicano, Jewish,...
March 22, 2007

Miller, J. Hillis. Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James.(...
March 22, 2007

Coviello, Peter. Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebel...
September 22, 2006

Barrish, Phillip. White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Class...
September 22, 2006

John Cheever's Shady Hill, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love...
September 22, 2006

In a pig's eye: masculinity, mastery, and the returned gaze of The Bli...
September 22, 2006

"The light which, showing the way, forbids it": reconstructing aesthet...
September 22, 2006

Freaks and the American dream: Horatio Alger, P. T. Barnum, and the ar...
September 22, 2006

Michaels, Walter Benn. The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of ...
September 22, 2006

Read, David. New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-...
September 22, 2006

Simmons, Ryan. Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels.(Book revie...
September 22, 2006

Schweighauser, Philipp. The Noises of American Literature 1890-1985: T...
September 22, 2006

The Scarlet Letter romantic medicine.
March 22, 2006

Naming the trees: literary onomastics in Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide...
March 22, 2006

House of Leaves: reading the networked novel.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2006

Sympathetic listening in Frederick Douglass's "The Heroic Slave" and m...
March 22, 2006

Two Samuels of Hartford: Clemens, Colt, and the unification of a disjo...
March 22, 2006

"It could have been any street": Ann Petry, Stephen Crane, and the fat...
March 22, 2006

Okker, Patricia. Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Cent...
September 22, 2005

Jackson, Cassandra. Barriers Between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth...
September 22, 2005

Wall, Cheryl A. Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and L...
September 22, 2005

"Saturnalia of blood": masculine self-control and American Indians in ...
September 22, 2005

The Holocaust and postwar Jewish identity in Daniel Stern's Who Shall ...
September 22, 2005

Witness and participant: Frederick Douglass's child.(William Lloyd Gar...
September 22, 2005

Writing revolt in the wake of Nat Turner: Frederick Douglass and the c...
September 22, 2005

The politics of perception in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno and Char...
September 22, 2005

"We are not a nation, so much as a world": Melville's global conscious...
September 22, 2005

"A silent partner long enough": Phelps rewrites Gaskell's North and So...
September 22, 2005

Glass, Loren. Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United St...
March 22, 2005

Csicsila, Joseph T. Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American ...
March 22, 2005

Samuels, Shirley. Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War.(Book ...
March 22, 2005

Brickhouse, Anna. Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-...
March 22, 2005

Griffin, Susan M. Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.(Boo...
March 22, 2005

Blurring the color line: black freedom, passing, abolitionism, and Iri...
March 22, 2005

"A merely pictorial subject": The Turn of the Screw.
March 22, 2005

"Raceless" writing and difference: Ann Petry's Country Place...
March 22, 2005

"The polishing attrition": reading, writing, and renunciatio...
March 22, 2005

Interpositions: Hope Leslie, women's petitions, and historical fiction...
September 22, 2004

Reporting triumph, saving a nation: "interesting juxtapositions" in Jo...
September 22, 2004

Broer, Lawrence R. and Gloria Holland, eds. Hemingway and Women: Femal...
September 22, 2004

McGurl, Mark. The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henr...
September 22, 2004

Berg, Allison. Mothering the Race: Women's Narratives of Reproduction,...
September 22, 2004

Wardi, Anissa Janine. Death and the Arc of Mourning in African America...
September 22, 2004

Brennan, Jonathan, ed. When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native A...
September 22, 2004

Shelley Streeby. American Sensations: Class, Empire and the Production...
September 22, 2004

At home in America: John Fante and the imaginative American self.
September 22, 2004

Norbert Blei: portrait of the artist as outsider.
September 22, 2004

"Fated to perish by consumption": the political economy of Arthur Merv...
March 22, 2004

Sentimental types and social reform in Uncle Tom's Cabin.
March 22, 2004

Vindication against misreading in The Golden Bowl, The American Scene,...
March 22, 2004

Willa Cather's Greenwich Village: new contexts for "Coming, Aphrodite!...
March 22, 2004

History in Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth.
March 22, 2004

Domesticating the car: women's road trips.
March 22, 2004

A purchase on goodness: Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall, and fraught individuali...
September 22, 2003

Liberal visions of reconstruction: Lydia Maria child's a romance of th...
September 22, 2003

Imaginary friends: representing Quakers in early American fiction.(Cri...
September 22, 2003

Lacking brutish conviction: Vandover's tumble from the leisure class.(...
September 22, 2003

Hemingway's "Francis Macomber" in Pirandellian and Freudian perspectiv...
September 22, 2003

McHenry, Elizabeth. Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of ...
September 22, 2003

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