42.1 and 2—SPRING and SUMMER 2010
Special Number: The Young Adult Novel
Articles:
"Kicking it up beyond the casual: Fresh Perspectives in Young Adult Literature" —David Cappella, p. 1
"Has Tomomi Lost her Mind? Psychosis, Femininity, and the Universal Appeal of Kazumi Yumoto’s The Spring Tone" —Linda Belau, p. 11
"From Soldiers to Children: Undoing the Rite of Passage in Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone and Bernard Ashley’s Little Soldier" —Irina Kyulanova, p. 28
"Teenage Wasteland: Defeating the Machine in Daniel Pinkwater’sChicago" —Michelle Robinson, p. 48
"Power and Polyphony in Young Adult Literature: Rob Thomas’s Slave Day" —Sara K. Day, p. 66
"Joseph Bruchac’s “Dark” Novels: Confronting the Terror of Adolescence"—Michelle Pagni Stewart, p. 84
"'The Language of Pictures': Visual Representations and Spectatorship in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials" —Amanda M. Greenwell, p. 99
"Twilight is not Good for Maidens: Gender, Sexuality, and the Family in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series"—Anna Silver, p. 121
"The Ideology of the Wissenvine: Critique and Closure in Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s Green-sky Trilogy" —Robert McAlear, p. 139
"'Quick, Ethel, Your Rifle!': Portable Britishness and Flexible Gender Roles in G. A. Henty’s Books for Boys" —Deirdre H. McMahon, p. 154
"Nancy Drew’s Body: The Case of the Autonomous Female Sleuth" —Jennifer M. Woolston, p. 173
"Solving the Crime of Modernity: Nancy Drew in 1930" —Amy Boesky, p. 185
Misc:
Notes on Contributors, p. 202
42.3—FALL 2010
Articles:
“Scott’s Elementals: Vanishing Points between Space and Narrative in the Waverley Novels”—Tom Bragg, p. 205
"Toward an Entente Cordiale: The Cultivation of Cosmopolitan Sympathies in Ouida’s Under Two Flags”—Kristi Embry, p. 227
“Reading Meat in H. G. Wells”—Michael Parrish Lee, p. 249
“Unsettled Worlds: Aesthetic Emplacement in Willa Cather’s My Ántonia”—Keith Wilhite, p. 269
“’A Biology of Dictatorships’: Liberalism and Modern Realism in Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here”—Andrew Corey Yerkes, p. 287
“The Mind and Nature of Locked Rooms: Tarjei Vessas’s Novel The Ice Palace and Metaphysical Crime Fiction”— Anna Westerståhl Stenpor, p. 305
“Fictions of Class and Community in Henry Green’s Living”—Marius Hentea, p. 321
Essay-Reviews:
“Three Approaches to the American Romantic Tradition”—Gabriela Serrano, p. 340
Reviews:
Park, Julie. The Self and It: Novel Objects in Eighteenth-Century England—Nicholas Hudson, p. 350
Plotz, John. Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move—Laurie Langbauer, p. 352
Youngkin, Molly. Feminist Realism at the Fin de Siècle: The Influence of the Late-Victorian Woman’s Press on the Development of the Novel—Jennifer Phegley, p. 354
42.4—WINTER 2010
Articles:
“Mocking the Mothers of the Novel: Mary Wollstonecraft, Maternal Metaphor, and the Reproduction of Sympathy”—Mary Beth Tegan, p. 357
“Prevention as Narrative in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park”—Erika Wright, p. 377
“Tradition and Individual Talent in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop”—Adam Jabbur, p. 395
“Pleasure and Peril: Dynamic Forces of Power and Desire in Siri Hustvedt’s The Blindfold”—Alise Jameson, p. 421
“Resurveying DeLillo’s ‘White Space on Map’: Liminality and Communitas in Underworld”—Lee Rozelle, p. 443
“The Waiting Game: Medieval Allusions and the Lethal Nature of Passivity in Ian McEwan’s Atonement”—Mary Behrman, p.453
Essay-Reviews:
“Faulknerscapes”—Ted Atkinson, p. 471
Reviews:
Garcha, Amanpal. From Sketch to Novel—Julia Lee, p. 480
Gillooly, Eileen and Deirdre David, eds. Contemporary Dickens—Shale Preston, p. 482
Halldorson, Stephanie. The Hero in Contemporary American Fiction—Jeff Severs, p. 484
Heath, Kay. Aging by the Book: The Emergence of Midlife in Victorian Britain—Tamara Silvia Wagner, p. 486
Shepherd, Lynn. Clarissa’s Painter: Portraiture, Illustration, and Representation in the Novels of Samuel Richardson—Janet Aikins Yount, p. 489
Wilkes, Joanne. Women Reviewing Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Critical Reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot—Lesa Scholl, p. 492