2007 American Studies Catalog

The Ohio State University Press
American Studies Catalog 2007

The Academic Self: An Owner’s Manual Donald E. Hall		The Academic Community: A Manual for Change Donal E. Hall
Mutha’ Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture L. H. Stallings		Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women’s Literature Edited by Elizabeth Brown-Guillory
Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction Beth Widmaier Capo		Making the “America of Art”: Cultural Nationalism and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Naomi Z. Sofer
Traveling Economies: American Women’s Travel Writing Jennifer Bernhardt Steadman		The Reverend Mark Twain: Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content Joe B. Fulton
America’s Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana Dorothy Z. Baker		Spirits of Defiance: National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, 1920–1933 Kathleen Drowne
A Fatal Drifting Apart: Democratic Social Knowledge and Chicago Reform Laura M. Westhoff		African Americans and the Color Line in Ohio, 1915–1930 William W. Giffin
For All White-Collar Workers: The Possibilities of Radicalism in New York City’s Department Store Unions, 1934–1953 Daniel J. Opler		Kotex, Kleenex, Huggies: Kimberly-Clark and the Consumer Revolution in American Business Thomas Heinrich and Bob Batchelor
J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-interventionists: FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, 1939–1945 Douglas M. Charles		Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870–1917 Eleanor L. Hannah
Nursing and the Privilege of Prescription 1893–2000 Arlene Keeling		Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865–1925 Barbra Mann Wall
Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts David Andrews		Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku Yoshinobu Hakutani
Nurse-Midwifery: The Birth of a New American Profession Laura E. Ettinger		The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century Mark H. Rose, Bruce E. Seely, and Paul F. Barrett

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Re-Forming the Past: History, The Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative A. Timothy Spaulding	“In the Light of Likeness—Transformed”: The Literary Art of Leon Forrest Dana A. Williams	Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative Jürgen E. Grandt
Executing Race: Early American Women’s Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law Sharon M. Harris	The Difference Place Makes: Gender, Sexuality, and Diaspora Identity Angeletta KM Gourdine	Dying to Be Beautiful: The Fight for Safe Cosmetics Gwen Kay
Advertising to the American Woman: 1900–1999 Daniel Delis Hill	At Home, At War: Domesticity and World War I in American Fiction Jennifer Haytock	Would Poetry Disappear? American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity John Timberman Newcomb
White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, and Classic American Realism Phillip Barrish	Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America Margaret Reid	In Cold Fear: The Catcher in the Rye Censorship Controversies and Postwar American Character Pamela Hunt Steinle
A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism Jaime Hovey	Roman Fever: Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing Annamaria Formichella Elsden	Listen to Me Good: The Life Story of an Alabama Midwife Margaret Charles Smith and Linda Janet Holmes
Sexual Borderlands: Constructing an American Sexual Past Edited by Kathleen Kennedy and Sharon Ullman	Journal of a Voyage around the World: A Year on the Ship Helena (1841–1842) Thomas Worthington King	Muse in the Machine: American Fiction and Mass Publicity Mark Conroy