STUDIES IN AMERICAN

CULTURE

1999

XXII :2

1

Dying of Consumption: The Prostitute Clara in Meridel Le Seuer's The Girl Carmela Pinto McIntire

11

Canon Fodder: Vietnam Verse and the Anesthetics of Acceptance Eric Gadzinski

19

The Potency of Jane, or the Disciplinary Function of Austen in America Michael Kramp

33

Scalawags and Scoundrels? The Moral and Legal Dimensions of Sherman's Last Campaigns - Debra Reddin Van Tuyll

47

A Certain Doubt: The Lost Voice of Deborah Samson in Revolutionary America - Bennett Kravitz

61

The Tourist as Art Critic: Mark Twain and the Old Masters

Jeffrey A. Melton

71

Fagin's Children: Hollywood's Jewish Gangsters - Terry Barr

85

When the Favorite Son/Journalistic Icon Had a Mistress: Coverage of the Secret Private Life of Charles Kuralt in the Press of His Beloved North Carolina - Larry Timbs

Cover Design: Sandra DeWald