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Current Issue:

Deconstructing the Damsel in Distress: Gothic Revisions of Gender and Agency in Julia Ward Howe’s The Hermaphrodite

Heather E. Barrett

Cooper’s Revolution: The Language of Law and Love in The Pilot 

Valerie Sirenko

The Death of Anti-Whiggery in The House of Seven Gables

David Grant

The Year in Conferences (MLA, C19, ALA)