Table of Contents
Michael Warner, Franklin and the Letters of the Republic
Elaine Showalter, The Death of the Lady (Novelist): Wharton's "House of Mirth"
Sacvan Bercovitch, Hawthorne's A-Morality of Compromise
Philip Fisher, Democratic Social Space: Whitman, Melville, and the Promise of American Transparency
Eric Sundquist, Mark Twain and Homer Plessy
Richard Brodhead, Sparing the Rod: Discipline and Fiction in Antebellum America
Walter Benn Michaels, An American Tragedy, or the Promise of American Life
Sharon Cameron, Representing Grief: Emerson's "Experience"
Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Bodily Bonds: The Intersecting Rhetorics of Feminism and Abolition
Michael Moon, "The Gentle Boy from the Dangerous Classes": Pederasty, Domesticity, and Capitalism in Horatio Alger
Alan Trachtenberg, Albums of War: On Reading Civil War Photographs
Henry Louis Gates, The Trope of the New Negro and the Reconstruction of the Image of the Black
Michael Rogin, "The Sword Became a Flashing Vision": D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation"
