2005 Studies in American Culture - 28.2

Studies in American Culture Symposium:
A Muse of Fire: Poetry and Crisis

A Muse of Fire
R.T. Smith

Whitman and the Civil War
Ted Genoways

Poems in Crisis: A Personal Reflection
Sarah Kennedy

Against Usefulness
Leslie Wheeler

Articles

The (Con)founding of America:
Jamestown 2007 and the Ideology of Travel Literature
Roberta Rosenberg

Poetry Lessons: Longfellow's Cultivation of a Readership
Matthew Gartner

Music and the Marketplace: Jazz and the Great Depression in the Short Stories of Rudolph Fisher and Langston Hughes
Paul McCann

Snow Job: The Whitening of History in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and David Bradley’s The Chaneysville Incident
Bettina Entzminger

The Terror of Neutrality:
Civil Rights, Tortured Quietism, and the Tactical Disengagement of Flannery O’Connor
Patrick Wen

Ginsberg: Chronicling Depressions Great and Small
Jason Spangler

Envelope Please: Upholding Masculinity in Michael Herr’s Dispatches and
David Rabe’s Streamers
Jon Adams

Reviews

Appalachian Home Cooking: History, Culture, and Recipes, by Mark F. Sohn
Varnell Badgett

Civil War Time: Temporality and Identity in America, 1861-1865, by Cheryl A. Wells
Sylvia Cook

Democratic Discourses: The Radical Abolition Movement and Antebellum American Literature, by Michael Bennett
Sylvia Cook

Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture, by Rachel Devlin
Linda Rohrer Paige

Light in the Dark Room: Photography and Loss, by Jay Prosser
Larry Vonalt

Rhetorical Investigations: Studies in Ordinary Language Criticism, by Walter Jost
Pennie Ticen

The Coal Tattoo, by Silas House
Jean W. Cash

Cover

Mike Smith
Chinquapin, TN (1989)
from You’re Not From Around Here: Photographs of East Tennessee
(original photograph in color)