Contents

Articles

"Mid-Career Reflections or 'How the heck did you end up here?': The 1998 SCMLA Presidential Address"
Keith Busby      p. 1

"Charles Chesnutt's Cultural Exchange: Race and the Reading of Melodrama in 'Her Virginia Mammy'"
Karen M. Chandler      p. 6

"Hegemony and the Politics of Twain's Protagonist/Narrator Division in Huckleberry Finn"
Daniel S. Traber      p. 24

"The Pen is Mightier Than the Whore: Imperialism and Cultural Authority in Spenser and Swift"
Lucile G. Appert      p. 47

"Arguing for All It's Worth: The Aesthetics Within Ideology"
Lou F. Caton      p. 61

"Official Writers: The Engineers of the Congolese Soul"
Dominic Thomas      p. 77

Reviews

Valerie Babb, Whiteness Visible: The Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature and Culture
Mary Bucholtz      p. 103

Gray Richard, Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region
Annette Trefzer      p. 104

Jan Nordby Gretlund, Eudora Welty's Aesthetics of Place
Ruth D. Weston      p. 106

Janis Stout, Through the Window, Out the Door: Women's Narratives of Departure, from Austin and Cather, to Tyler, Morrison, and Didion
Helen Levy      p. 108

Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Jack London: A Study of the Short Fiction
Earle Labor      p. 109

James L. Harner, The World Shakespeare Bibliography: 1987-1994
David L. Gants      p. 111

Theresa M. Kelley, Reinventing Allegory Susan Bolet Egenolf 113 R.C. Terry, ed., Oxford Reader's Companion to Trollope
Hervé Picton      p. 114

Daniel Bivona, British Imperial Literature, 1870-1940: Writing and the Administration of Empire
Youngjoo Kim      p. 116

Jack W. Weaver, Joyce's Music and Noise: Theme and Variation in His Writings Garry Leonard, Advertising and Commodity Culture in Joyce
Ian Crump      p. 118

Nancy L. Canepa, ed., Out of the Woods: The Origins of the Literary Fairy Tale in Italy and France
Ian Wojcik Andrews      p. 120

Servanne Woodward, ed., Altered Writings followed by Public Space of the Domestic Sphere
Perry Gethner      p. 121

Owen Heathcote, Alex Hughes, and James S. Williams, eds., Gay Signatures: Gay and Lesbian Theory, Fiction and Film in France, 1945-1995
Ross Chambers      p. 122

Robert J. Shandley, ed., Unwilling Germans? The Goldhagen Debate
Russell A. Berman      p. 124

John R. Rosenberg, The Black Butterfly: Concepts of Spanish Romanticim
Jeffrey Oxford      p. 125

D.G. Meyers, The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880
Laurie Champion      p. 127

Emily Toth, Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia
Janis Stout      p. 128

Notes on Contributors
Announcements
Books Received

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