J19 | Fall 2020

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Editors: Elizabeth Duquette and Stacey Margolis

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Table of Contents

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ON OUR COVER (175-80)

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ESSAYS

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"Ledger No. 1," Christina Michelon, Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Megan Walsh (181-91)

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"The 'Mysterious Depths' of Slave Interiority: Fiction and 

Intersubjective Knowledge in The Heroic Slave," Thomas Koenigs (193-217)

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"'No Land of Pleasure Unalloyed': Economies of Pleasure and Pain in Melville’s Typee and Omoo," Édouard Marsoin (219-43)

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"The Sweet Truth of Slavery," Matthew Vernon (245-66)

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"Laughing at 'Young Bull': American Authority in Civil War Cartoons," Sarah Sillin (267-93)

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"Voicing a Transnational Latina Poetics: The Dedication Poems of Amelia Denis and Carlota Gutierrez," Vanessa Ovalle Perez (295-319)

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"Who’s Afraid of Historicizing? How Protestant Anti-historicism Became Literary Self-Defense," Ashley C. Barnes (321-46)

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"Voting Rights in the Age of Formal Equality," Christopher Malone (347-54)

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"Slave Narratives, Black Disenfranchisement, and the Electoral Limits of Black Freedom," Laila Mansouri (355-62)

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“'True Faith and Allegiance': Loyalty Oaths, Suffrage, and Defining the Polity’s Limits in the Fourteenth Amendment," Laura E. Free (363-9)

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"Outvoting: Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Logic of Apportionment," Jennie A. Kassanoff (371-7)

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"C19 ANTI-RACISM" (383-4)

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Image: Cherokee Phoenix, February 21, 1828

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