14735504_7-2.qxd.goldlabel Journal of American Studıes Jou rn alof A m erican S tu d ies Volu m e 4 7 N u m b er 3 A u g u st2 0 1 3 p p 5 8 9 –8 6 9 Volume 47 Number 3 August 2013 Volume 47 Nu mber 3 August 2013 Journal of American Studıes Cambridge Journals Online For further information about this journal please go to the journal website at: journals.cambridge.org/ams v Editors’ Introduction A RT I C L E S 589 Unfair Ground: Girlhood and Theme Parks in Contemporary Fiction S A R A H G R A H A M 605 “A Single Woman … Among So Many Men”: Negotiating Gendered Spaces in John Gregory Brown’s Audubon’s Watch A R T E M I S M I C H A I L I D O U 621 From This Point on It’s All about Loss: Attachment to Loss in the Novels of Don DeLillo, from Underworld to Falling Man A L A N M A R S H A L L 637 “the agitation of the autobiographical”: National Politics and Aesthetic Autonomy in Philip Roth’s Exit Ghost A N D Y C O N N O L LY 659 “Our Present Work Will Be All Doors”: Writers and Periodical Culture in 1860s San Francisco J A N E T F LO Y D 673 The Injuries of Reading: Jesse Pomeroy and the Dire Effects of Dime Novels D AW N K E E T L E Y 699 Strange Birds: Rewriting The Maltese Falcon C Y N T H I A S . H A M I LT O N 719 Local Public Opinion: The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures and the Fight against Film Censorship in Virginia, 1916–1922 J E N N I F E R F R O N C 743 Styleless Style? What Photorealism Can Tell Us about “the Sixties” C R A I G J . P E A R I S O 759 “The Master-Key of Our Theme”: Master Betty and the Politics of Theatricality in Herman Melville’s “The Fiddler” M I C H A E L J A M E S C O L L I N S 777 Using Citizenship to Retain Identity: The Native American Dance Bans of the Later Assimilation Era, 1900–1933 G A B R I E L L A T R E G L I A 801 Security: The Long History E L I J E L LY- S C H A P I R O R O U N D TA B L E 827 Denise Gigante, The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George 839 R E V I E W S E L E C T R O N I C C O N T E N T O N L I N E R E V I E W E S S AY E X C L U S I V E O N L I N E R E V I E W S www.journals.cambridge.org/ams terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875813001266 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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Journal of American Studıes Journal of American Studıes Instructions for contributors http://assets.cambridge.org/AMS/AMS_ifc.pdf This journal issue has been printed on FSC-certified paper and cover board. FSC is an independent, non-governmental, not-for-profit organization established to promote the responsible management of the world’s forests. Please see www.fsc.org for information. terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875813001266 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:18, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875813001266 https://www.cambridge.org/core Contents Editor’s Introduction v Articles Unfair Ground: Girlhood and Theme Parks in Contemporary Fiction  SARAH GRAHAM “A Single Woman . . . Among So Many Men”: Negotiating Gendered Spaces in John Gregory Brown’s Audubon’s Watch  ARTEMIS MICHAILIDOU From This Point on It’s All about Loss: Attachment to Loss in the Novels of Don DeLillo, from Underworld to Falling Man ALAN MARSHALL  “the agitation of the autobiographical”: National Politics and Aesthetic Autonomy in Philip Roth’s Exit Ghost  ANDY CONNOLLY “Our Present Work Will Be All Doors”: Writers and Periodical Culture in s San Francisco  JANET FLOYD The Injuries of Reading: Jesse Pomeroy and the Dire Effects of Dime Novels  DAWN KEETLEY Strange Birds: Rewriting The Maltese Falcon  CYNTHIA S. HAMILTON Local Public Opinion: The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures and the Fight against Film Censorship in Virginia, –  JENNIFER FRONC Styleless Style? What Photorealism Can Tell Us about “the Sixties”  CRAIG J. PEARISO “The Master-Key of Our Theme”: Master Betty and the Politics of Theatricality in Herman Melville’s “The Fiddler”  MICHAEL JAMES COLLINS terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875813001266 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:18, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875813001266 https://www.cambridge.org/core Using Citizenship to Retain Identity: The Native American Dance Bans of the Later Assimilation Era, –  GABRIELLA TREGLIA Security: The Long History  ELI JELLY-SCHAPIRO Roundtable: Denise Gigante, The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George  CLARE ELLIOTT, MICHAEL J. COLLINS, PETER J. L. RILEY, BEN HICKMAN Reviews  Reviews Sohail Daulatzai, Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America  Craig Yirush, Settlers, Liberty, and Empire: The Roots of Early American Political Theory, –  Geoffrey Plank, John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire  Nicole Eustace, : War and the Passions of Patriotism  Nicholas Buccola, The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty  Nan Goodman and Michael P. Kramer (eds.), The Turn around Religion in America: Literature, Culture, and the Work of Sacvan Bercovitch  Kidada E. Williams, They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I  Grace Peña Delgado, Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.–Mexican Borderlands  Rose Stremlau, Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation  Jennifer A. Greenhill, Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age  Brian Dolinar, The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation  Catherine Morley, Modern American Literature  George I. Lovell, This Is Not Civil Rights: Discovering Rights Talk in  America  David W. Ellwood, The Shock of America: Europe and the Challenge of the Century  Mary L. Dudziak, War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences  William Thomas Allison, My Lai: An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War  Jonathan Lyons, Islam through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism  Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman, Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race  Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies  Helen Oakley, From Revolution to Migration: A Study of Contemporary Cuban and Cuban-American Crime Fiction  Electronic Content Online Review Essay African Americans Fight Their Civil War DOUGLAS R. EGERTON terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875813001266 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:18, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875813001266 https://www.cambridge.org/core Exclusive Online Reviews The following reviews are freely available in the online version of this issue at www.journals. cambridge.org/ams David R. Swartz, Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism Evan Haefeli (ed.), New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty Gregg. L. Frazer, The Religious Beliefs of America’s Founders: Reason, Revelation, and Revolution Tony Bickham, The Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of  Daniel Koch, Ralph Waldo Emerson in Europe: Class, Race, and Revolution in the Making of an American Thinker Henry Louis Gates (ed.), Lincoln on Race and Slavery Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page, Colonization after Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement Diana Rebekkah Paulin, Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U. S. Drama and Fiction Andrew Lawson, Downwardly Mobile: The Changing Fortunes of American Realism Frank Rzeczkowski, Uniting the Tribes: The Rise and Fall of the Pan-Indian Community on the Crow Reservation Bonnie M. Miller, From Liberation to Conquest: The Visual and Popular Culture of the Spanish–American War of  Elizabeth Leane, Antarctica in Fiction: Imaginative Narratives of the Far South Elena Glasberg, Antarctica as Cultural Critique: The Gendered Politics of Scientific Exploration and Climate Change Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith (eds.), Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers from Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code Kevin J. Hayes, A Journey through American Literature Frederick Turner, Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of Tropic of Cancer Don Mitchell, They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California Sharin N. Elkholy (ed.), The Philosophy of the Beats Alexander Leicht, The Search for a Democratic Aesthetics: Robert Rauschenberg, Walker Evans, William Carlos Williams Shana Bernstein, Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles John P. Spencer, In the Crossfire: Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American School Reform Tim S. R. Boyd, Georgia Democrats, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Shaping of the New South George Derek Musgrove, Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics: How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America Steven Powell,  American Crime Writers Julie Levinson, The American Success Myth on Film Dennis DeSlippe, Protesting Affirmative Action: The Struggle over Equality after the Civil Rights Revolution Keith Byerman, The Art and Life of Clarence Major Carol Magee, Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture Ahmed Elbeshlawy, America in Literature and Film: Modernist Perceptions, Postmodernist Representations Eric Weisbard (ed.), POP: When the World Falls Apart: Music in the Shadow of Doubt Charles W. 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Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:18, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875813001266 https://www.cambridge.org/core Editors’ Introduction We are pleased to publish in this issue a range of articles around distinctive themes in American literature and culture, in particular, the construction of “America” amid the promise of progress and the reality of domestic tensions. Our first four essays work from a variety of perspectives with contemporary authors and their contexts, including Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, and John Gregory Brown. Our following five essays offer critiques of mass culture, including evaluations of nineteenth-century periodicals, dime novels, and The Maltese Falcon. In other essays, readers can move from study of Herman Melville to the relationship between Native American dance bans and citizenship, to an evaluation of the “long history” of US security. Tracing the life and works not only of John Keats but also of his lesser- known brother, George, a roundtable organized by Michael Collins sees participants Clare Elliott, Peter Riley, Ben Hickman, and Michael Collins debate Denise Gigante’s recent volume The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George. Coming to grips not only with their fraternal relationship, these scholars engage in an in-depth intellectual conversation regarding transatlantic migration, especially as it relates to George Keats’s removal to the United States, transcendentalism, melancholia, and chattel slavery. From a study of letters, biographical writing, and imaginative poetic discourse in relation to transnational models of exchange, new light emerges not only upon the life and works of an iconic poet also but upon the shifting relationship between British and American Romanticism. On the electronic side, Douglas R. Egerton’s powerful review essay examines recent scholarship debating the history, politics, and, above all, memory of the Civil War vis-à-vis African American lives as lived in slavery and in freedom. Foregrounding black agency, radicalism, and resistance, he debates fundamental issues relating not only to black military service but also to political activism, familial life, and long- standing and emerging liberation movements. terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875813001266 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:18, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875813001266 https://www.cambridge.org/core