This volume, part of an annually published series, contains nine articles, two review-essays, and 13 book reviews on topics in American literature. Articles discuss recommendations for the
study of John Steinbeck; Neith Boyce's The Story of an American Family; Ralph Waldo Emerson and his son Edward's enlistment in the Civil War; Henry James' biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne; Mary
Wilkins Freeman; Catherine Turney's adaptation of Ellen Glasgow's The Sheltered Life; Tennessee William's previously unpublished play Jungle, or Walter Finds the Pearl; and primary sources on
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