CONTENTS, VOLUME 62, 2006 ANN BRIGHAM Touring Memorial Hall: The State of the Union in The Bostonians TOM CERASULO The Dream Life of Balso Snell and the Vocation of Nathanael West ABIGAIL CHEEVER “The Man He Almost Is”: Jerry Maguire and Judith Butler THOMAS CLAVIEZ Rainbows, Fogs, and Other Smokescreens: Billy Budd and the Question of Ethics COLIN DAYAN A Ghost Story is Born JEANNE ELDERS DEWAARD “The Shadow of Law”: Sentimental Interiority, Gothic Terror, and the Legal Subject LAURA G. GODFREY Mourning Dove's Textual Frontier ANDREW S. GROSS The American Guide Series: Patriotism as Brand-Name Identification MARCUS KLEIN Henry James’s Sacred Fount: The Theory, The Theorist, and The Lady Contents, Volume 62, 2006 STEVEN P. LIPARULO “From Fear to Wisdom”: Augustinian Semiotics and Self-Fashion- ing in Cabeza de Vaca’s Relacién 2/1 PATRICIA MCKEE Travel in The Ambassadors SEAN ROSS MEEHAN Emerson’s Photgraphic Thinking APRIL MIDDELJANS On the Wire with Death and Desire: The Telephone and Lovers’ Discourse in the Short Stories of Dorothy Parker J. HILLIS MILLER Oscar in The Tragic Muse JONATHAN TADASHI NAITO Cruel and Unusual Light: Electricity and Effacement in Stephen Crane’s The Monster AMY NOVAK “A Marred Testament”: Cultural Trauma and Narrative in Danticat’s The Farming of Bones PATRICK O'DONNELL James's Birdcage/Hitchcock’s Birds ARMANDO JOSE PRATS Last Stand at the Ia Drang Valley:Memory, Mission, and the Shape of Victory in We Were Soldiers AMY READING Vulgarity’s Ironist: New Criticism, Midcult, and Nabokov’s Pale Fire Contents, Volume 62, 2006 NEIL SCHMITZ Doing The Gettysburg Address: Jefferson/Calhoun/Lincoln/King SEAN R. SILVER The Temporality of Allegory: Melville's “The Lightning-Rod Man” SHEILA TEAHAN The Literal Turn of the Figurative Screw ROBERT L. ZAMSKY A Poetics of Radical Musicality: Nathaniel Mackey’s “-mu” Series LYNDA ZWINGER Seeing James Seeing: Introduction