J19 | Fall 2019

​

Editors: Elizabeth Duquette and Stacey Margolis

​

​

Table of Contents

​

 

PLEASURE READING

​

"Lost and Found in Gilead, Iowa," 

Kathryn Hamilton Warren (215-222)

​

LETTER

​

Considering the Racially “Inscrutable” Child: Letter Response to Laura Soderberg, “Writing the Criminal Child: Antebellum Prison Records, Parenting Manuals, and the Rise of the Incorrigible Child,” 

Brigitte Fielder (223-225)

​

ESSAYS

​

"Unraveling the Blood Line: Pauline Hopkins’s Haitian Genealogies,"

Mary Grace Albanese (227-248)

​

"Regional Nationalism and the Ends of the Literary World," Alex Zweber Leslie (249-275)

​

"Did Howells Give Up on Realism?" 

Rafael Walker (277-300)

​

"On First Looking into Charles Chesnutt’s Homer," 

Tess Chakkalakal (301-327)

​

FORUM: Amerikastudien; Or, American Studies in Germany

​

"Introduction,"

Sascha Pöhlmann (329-333)

​

"My Sixty Years as an Amerikanist,"

Heinz Ickstadt (335-342)

​

"With and beyond Borders: Toward a Posthumanist American Studies,"

Johanna Heil (343-348)

​

"Learning from June Jordan and Walt Whitman (and from Las Vegas, too): Notes on Inclusivity and Borders,"

Kerstin Schmidt (349-355)

​

"Precarious Romanticism: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Germany,"

Clemens Spahr (357-362)

 

​

​

​