American Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. 368 pp. $84.95; $23.95 paper.
ver the course of her distinguished career, Lauren Berlant, the George M. Pullman Professor …

This essay challenges the image, popularized by Henry Louis Gates Jr., of eighteenth-
century African American poet Phillis Wheatley “on trial” before a jury of eighteen white male …

By NANCY SCHNOG• n the past few years Susan Warner's sentimental novel The Wide
Wide World, one of nineteenth-century America's most popular novels and the nation's first …

The American Western has long been considered a genre inhospitable to women. Its
valorizations of masculine individuality, male homosociality, violent physical struggle, and …

Abstract In 1979, Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar published their seminal study of the
nineteenth century female literary tradition, The Madwoman in the Attic, in which they argued …

Reading Sideways explores the pivotal role that various art forms played in American literary
fiction in direct relation to the politics of gender and sexuality in works of modern American …

To illustrate her claim that women ought to perform what she called “that social service
which is our first duty as human beings,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman concluded that her …

502 American Literature fruitfully be analyzed in terms of the production and, at least in
some cases, deconstruction of unstable gendered spaces. 1 Avery Gordon describes …

Megan: Elizabeth and I have been working for four years together on questions of emotion,
affect, media, and politics. Since 2016, emotion has come to have a new currency in political …

Charles Walter Stetson ear the end of" The Yellow Wallpaper," the heroine says
suddenly:"'I've got out at last... in spite of you and Jane'"(19). Who is Jane? No character in …