J19 | Spring 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 (5-12)

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PLEASURE READING

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"'Something Pathetic as Well as Wonderful': Celia Thaxter's Paratextual Interventions," Maura D'Amore (13-25)

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ESSAYS

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"Not Quite a Turn: Rethinking Biography and Evidence" (26-30)

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"Finding Frank," Jessie Morgan-Owens (31-39)

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"Discredited Knowledges and Black Religious Ways of Knowing," Ahmad Greene-Hayes (41-49)

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"Duplicity: Kidnapping and the Problem of Evidence in Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave," Janet Neary (51-59)

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"What Good Is a Moment?," Scott Hancock (61-68)

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"To Fathom His Very Roots: Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance and 'Evidence' of His Literary Racial Passing," DeLisa D. Hawkes (69-80)

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"Biographical Evidence and the Law of Presumptions," Simon Stern (83-89)

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"Lived Craftwork," Zachary Tavlin (91-96)

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"Memoirs of Madness," Liana Kathleen Glew (97-104)

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“Making Labor Visible: The One-Sided Correspondence of Sarah Orne Jewett and Abbie S. Beede," Kelsey Squire (105-111)

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"Biography, Intentionality, and Interpretation: Poe and 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue,'" Scott Peeples (112-120)

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"Invisible Illness," Shari Goldberg (121-128)

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"What Was Boston Marriage? Sarah Orne Jewett and Biography

Melissa J. Homestead," Melissa J. Homestead (129-136) 

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"Nathaniel Hawthorne's Civil War," Gordon Hutner (137-144)

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"Rappacini's Son," Jordan Alexander Stein (145-154)

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"'A Wasted Sympathy': Undiagnosing Winifred Howells," Lindsey Grubbs (155-183)

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"Sandy's Root, Douglass's Mêtis: 'Black Art' and the Craft of Resistance in the Slave Narratives of Frederick Douglass," John Brooks (185-205)

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"A Queer Tale of Two Endings: Alice Dunbar-Nelson and 'His Heart's Desire,'" Jean M. Lutes (207-228)

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"Hearing Deliberately: Sensible Communication and Perception in Walden," Rachel Kolb (229-250)

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BIOS (251-254)

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Image: Cherokee Phoenix, February 21, 1828

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