Issue 23: Summer 2009

Note from the Editors

ARTICLES

Selling Themselves: Slavery, Survival and the Path of Least Resistance
Ben Schiller

Transatlantic Little Women: Louisa May Alcott, the Women Writer and Literary Community
Louisa Jane Hodgson

Derek Walcott and the Wild Frontier: The Ghost Dance
Penny Woollard

The Eradication of American proto-feminism: The Re-conceptualising of Gender in the Indian Captivity Narrative
Matthew Tomiak

BOOK REVIEWS

Thomas M Allen. A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America
Mark Storey

Catherine Morley. The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction: John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo
Alex Hobbs

G. John Ikenberry, Thomas Knock, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Tony Smith. The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-First Century
Mark Sullivan

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