ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance

Notes from the Editors


ARTICLES FORTHCOMING IN ESQ

Rita Bode, "Narrative Revelations: Harriet Prescott Spofford's 'Amber Gods' Revisited"

Marcy J. Dinius, "Slavery in Black and White: Literary Genre, Daguerreotypy, and Uncle Tom's Cabin"

Susan L. Dunston, "The Italian Alembic: Emerson in the Cathedral, 1833"

Michael Everton, "Melville in the Antebellum Publishing Maelstrom"

T. Walter Herbert, "Different from Himself: Hawthorne and the Masks of Masculinity"

Julie Husband, "Anticipating Progressive Era Reformers: Lydia Maria Child and the Mothering State"

Daniel L. Manheim, "The Signifying Spinster: How Emily Dickinson Found Her Voice"

Gretchen Murphy, "Symzonia, Typee, and the Dream of U. S. Global Isolation"

David M. Robinson, "Margaret Fuller, New York, and the Politics of Transcendentalism"

Sandra Runzo, "Emily Dickinson's American Museum"

Robert Sattelmeyer, "'Shanties of Chapters and Essays':   Rewriting Moby-Dick"

Jeffrey Steele, "Purifying America:   Purity and Disability in Margaret Fuller's New York Reform Writing"

Gale Temple, "'His Delirious Solace': Consummation, Consumption, and Reform in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance"

SPECIAL ISSUES:

"Reexamining the American Renaissance":

David M. Ball, "Toward an Archaeology of American Modernism: Reconsidering Prestige and Popularity in the American Renaissance"

Russ Castronovo, "Death to the American Renaissance: History, Heideggar, Poe "

Phyllis Cole, "The Literary Landscape of a Woman's Rights Periodical: The Una, 1853-1855"

Betsy Erkkilä, "Revolution in the Renaissance"

Sharon M. Harris, "Whose Renaissance? Women Writers in the Era of the American Renaissance"

Penelope Kelsey, "Natives, Nation, Narration: Reading Roanoke in the Renaissance"

Maurice S. Lee, "The Old and the New: Double Consciousness and the Literature of Slavery"

Robert Milder, "A Literature for the Times"

Julie Cary Nerad, "A Darker Woods: African American Writers in the American Renaissance"

Larry J. Reynolds, "The Challenge of Cultural Relativity: The Case of Hawthorne"

John Carlos Rowe, "Religious Transnationalism in the American Renaissance: Susan Warner's Wide, Wide World"

Jeffrey Steele, "Crises of Relationship: Developing Relational Models for the Study of the American Renaissance"

"American Literary Globalism?"
Guest Edited by Wai Chee Dimock
and Lawrence Buell

"Lawrence Buell, Introduction: "American Literary Globalism?

Jonathan Arac, "Global and Babel: Two Perspectives on Language in American Literature"

Homi K. Bhabha, " DuBois, Du Monde"

Russ Castronovo, "American Literature Internationale"

Wai Chee Dimock, "The Planetary Dead: Margaret Fuller, Ancient Egypt, Italian Revolution"

Donald E. Pease, "The Extraterritoriality of the Literature for Our Planet"

Joseph Roach, "World Bank Drama"

Doris Sommer, "Bilingual Arts and Sciences"

Wai Chee Dimock, Afterword: "In the wake of the Tsunami"

"Native Americans: Writing/Written":
Guest Edited by Carolyn Sorisio

Carolyn Sorisio, Introduction

Eric Anderson, "The Life of Black Hawk and the Countercolonial Provocations of Early Native American Writing"

Yael Ben-zvi, "Clinging to One Spot: Hawthorne's Native-Born Settlers"

Leslie Eckel, "Symbols 'Mystical and Awful': Emerson and Longfellow's Primitive Poetics"

Ed Whitley, "'[T]he First White Aboriginal': Walt Whitman and John Rollin Ridge"

Siobhan Senier, Afterword

"Melville in the Marquesas: Actuality of Place in Typee and Other Island Writings":
Symposium Edited by G. R. Thompson

Centerpiece essay by Robert C. Suggs, "Topographic, Archeological and Historical Considerations Relevant to Melville's Flight to Taipi"

Responses by Ruth Blair, John Bryant, T. Walter Herbert, Samuel Otter, Lee Quinby, Geoffrey Sanborn, and others