The Conversation of “The Whole Family”: Gender, Politics, and Aesthetics in Literary Tradition - Karen L. Kilcup
Gendered Genealogies
Lydia Maria Child, James Fenimore Cooper, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick: A Dialogue on Race, Culture, and Gender - Susanne Opfermann
Reconstructing Literary Genealogies: Frances E. W. Harper's and William Dean Howells's Race Novels - M. Giulia Fabi
Was Tom White? Stowe's Dred and Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson - Julie Newman
Shaped by Readers: The Slave Narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs -Stephen Matterson
Genre Matters
Body Politics and the Body Politic in William Wells Brown's Clotel and Harriet Wilson's Our Nig - R.J. Ellis
Wild Semantics: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Feminization of Edgar Allan Poe's Arabesque Aesthetics - Gabriele Rippl
Deepening Hues to Local Color: George Washington Cable and Sarah Barnwell Elliott -Aranzazu Usandizaga
Developing Dialogues
Sister Carrie and The Awakening: The Clothed, the Unclothed, and the Woman Undone -Janet Beer
Ladies Prefer Bonds: Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, and the Money Novel - Claire Preston
Mining the West: Bret Harte and Mary Hallock Foote - Janet Floyd
My Banker and I Can Afford to Laugh! Class and Gender in Fanny Fern and Nathaniel Hawthorne - Alison M. Easton
Transforming Traditions
Body/Rituals: The (Homo)Erotics of Death in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Rose Terry Cooke, and Edgar Allan Poe - Ralph J. Poole
The Five Million Women of My Race: Negotiations of Gender in W. E. B. Du Bois and Anna Julia Cooper - Hanna Wallinger
Woman Thinking: Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the American Scholar -Lindsey Traub
How Conscious Could Consciousness Grow? Emily Dickinson and William James - Susan Manning