J19 | Fall 2021

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Editors: Elizabeth Duquette and Stacey Margolis

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Table of Contents

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ON OUR COVER 

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LETTER

 

"Voting Rights"
Brook Thomas

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PLEASURE READING

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"Best Moments," Sharon Cameron

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"Dead Fish: On Rereading Moby-Dick," Emily Gowen

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"Cabin Fever," Isaa Kolding

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"The Understory," Matthew Crow

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ESSAYS

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"From Labor Reform to the Welfare State: The Critique of Capitalism in Three Postbellum Women’s Novels," Sophia Forster

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“There Is an Indian Nature”: Ethnography, Skepticism, and the 'Theory of the Peace Congress' in Melville’s Confidence-Man," Rachel S. Ravina

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SPECIAL SECTION ON FREDERICK DOUGLASS

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"Introduction to the Annotated Edition of Douglass’s Unpublished 'Slavery,'" Leslie Leonard

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"Slavery," Frederick Douglass

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FORUM: Japanizing C19 American Literary Studies

十九世紀アメリカ文学研究を日本化する 

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"Introduction: Japanizing C19 American Literary Studies"
イントロダクション：十九世紀アメリカ文学 研究を日本化する
Yoshiaki Furui

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"American Renaissance in the Age of Theory: A Far East Version"
アメリカン・ルネッサンスと批評理論：極東版
Takayuki Tatsumi

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"The Development of Mark Twain Studies in Japan"
日本におけるマーク・トウェイン研究の営み
Tsuyoshi Ishihara

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Japanese Approach to Emily Dickinson’s Poetry
エミリ・ディキンスンの詩と日本人
Hiroko Uno

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Thoreau’s Confucianist Turn in Japan
ソローと日本
Tsutomu Takahashi

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BIOS

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Image: Cherokee Phoenix, February 21, 1828

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