Contents
Issue 25.3 (Fall 1998)
General Issue
Essays
Richard Badenhausen ..........................................................................1
The Modern Academy Raging in the Dark: Misreading Mamet's Political Incorrectness in Oleanna
Michael Mays ......................................................................................20
Finnegans Wake, Colonial Nonsense, and Postcolonial History
Casey Charles......................................................................................35
Was Shakespeare Gay? Sonnet 20 and the Politics of Pedagogy
Was Shakespeare Gay? Sonnet 20 and the Politics of Pedagogy
Charles Harmon ..................................................................................52
"Abysses of Solitude": Acting Naturally in Vogue and The Awakening
John Converse Dixon...........................................................................67
Politicizing Samuel Johnson: The Moral Essays and the Question of Ideology
Politicizing Samuel Johnson: The Moral Essays and the Question of Ideology
Richard M. Berrong ...............................................................................................................................91
Portraying Make Same-sex Desire in Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Pierre Loti's Aziyade
Jerry Phillips .......................................................................................................................................109
Culture, the Academy, and the Police; Or Reading Matthew Arnold in "Our Present Unsettled State"
Sally R. Munt .......................................................................................................................................133
Grief, Doubt and Nostalgia in Detective Fiction Or... "Death and the Detective Novel": A Return
Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz ..........................................................................................................................145
The Children's Revolt Against Structures of Repression in Christina Peri Rossi's La Rebellion de los ninos [The Rebellion of the Children]
Review Essays
James Najarian ...................................................................................................................................137
Books, Aesthetics, Markets, and Debts
[Reviews of Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Shaped the Culture of Aestheticism, 1790-1990, by Gene Bell-Villada; Fictions of State: Culture and Credit in Britain, 1694-1994, by Patrick Brantlinger; The Economy of Literary Form: English Literature and the Industrialization of Publishing, 1800-1850, by Lee Erickson; Literature and the Marketplace: Romantic Writers and Their Audiences in Great Britain and the United States, by William G. Rowland, Jr.]
Allison Berg ........................................................................................................................................172
The New "New Negro": Recasting the Harlem Renaissance
[Reviews of Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled, by Thadious Davis; The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White, by George Hutchinson; The Politics of Color in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen, by Jacquelyn McLendon; Harlem's Glory: Black Women Writing, 1900-1950, ed. Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph.]
Roger A. Berger ..................................................................................................................................181
Cultural Studies and its Discontents
[Reviews of Sentenced to Death: The American Novel and Capital Punishment, by David Guest; The Catholic Imagination in American Literature, by Ross Labrie; The Medievalist Impulse in American Literature: Twain, Adams, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway, by Kim Moreland; Making the Team: The Cultural Work of Baseball Fiction, by Timothy Morrs.]
Book Reviews
Michael Thurston .................................................................................................................................191
Review of Modern Poetry After Modernism, by James R. Longenbach
James Longenbach .............................................................................................................................193
A Response to Michael Thurston
Kirsten Ostherr ....................................................................................................................................194
Review of Artificial Mythologies. A Guide to Cultural Invention. by Craig Saper
Mike Hill ..............................................................................................................................................196
Review of Channel Surfing: Race Talk and the Destruction of Today's Youth, by Henry A. Giroux
Joyce Huff ...........................................................................................................................................200
Review of Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature, by Rosemarie Garland Thomson
John N. Duvall .....................................................................................................................................203
Review of What Else But Love? The Ordeal of Race in Faulkner and Morrison, by Philip Weinstein
Lorraina Pinnell ..................................................................................................................................255
Review of Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary, ed. Rob Wilson and Wimal Dissanayake
Christopher Wise .................................................................................................................................208
Review of The Real Thing: Testimonial Discourse and Latin America, ed. Georg M. Gugelberger
Appendices
Books Received ..................................................................................................................................212
CL Referees ........................................................................................................................................218
Index: Volume 25, 1998 ......................................................................................................................222
