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Specters of Marxism in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends: Class, Race, and the Critique of Ideology

Russell Sbriglia

Exodus and Typological Plasticity in Delany, Melville, and Stowe

J. Laurence Cohen

Melville, Babel, and the Ethics of Translation

Kohei Furuya

“Man Himself is a Sign”: Emerson, C. S. Peirce, and the Semiosis of Mind

Austin Bailey