Most Recent Articles from Studies in American Fiction

• Editor's comment 

  The College of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern University has supported Studies in American Fiction consistently for more than three decades. My...

  09/22/08 by Mary Loeffelholz · More from publication

• Stephen Crane and Methodism's realism: translating spiritual sympathy into urban experience 

  In 1883, three years after Reverend Jonathan Townley Crane died, the widowed Helen Crane moved their family from Port Jervis, New York to Asbury...

  09/22/08 by Jamin Ro3wan · More from publication

• Wedded to race: Charles Chesnutt's Stories of the Color Line 

  Uncle Wellington, the title character of Charles W. Chesnutt's 1899 short story "Uncle Wellington's Wives," must grapple with an unusual marital...

  09/22/08 by Tess Chakkalakal · More from publication

• "Important, responsible work": Willa Cather's office stories and her necessary editorial career 

  In December 1908 Sarah Orne Jewett wrote a much-quoted letter to Willa Cather, in which she urged the younger woman to leave her "incessant,...

  09/22/08 by Ellen Gruber Garvey · More from publication

• Poverty, payment, power: Kathleen Thompson Norris and popular romance 

  2006 marked the fortieth anniversary of the death of Kathleen Thompson Norris. Who? I hear my under-fifty colleagues cry. The question is both...

  09/22/08 by Catherine Carter · More from publication

• "Militant expectations": childhood's end and millenarianism in Richard Powers' Operation Wandering Soul 

  I sent him my draft, to see if he might somehow be able to save it too from its inevitable end. My best intentions had failed to disperse the...

  09/22/08 by Richard Hardack · More from publication

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