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American Imago, v. 45, Summer, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by the Association for Applied Psychoanalysis, Inc. Reproduced by permission.—American Studies, v. 19, Spring, 1978 for “The Americanization of Arcadia: Images of Hispanic and Gold Rush California” by Ralph Mann. Copyright © Mid-American Studies Association, 1978. Reprinted by permission of the publisher and the author.—Americana-Austriaca: Beitrage zur Amerikunde, v. 2, 1970. © Verlag Wilhelm Braumüller, Vienna, 1970. Reproduced by permission of Wilhelm Braumüller GMBH.—Arizona Quarterly, v. 46, Winter, 1990 for “Re-Poe Man: A Problem of Pleasure” by Dennis A. Foster. Copyright © 1990 by the Regents of the University of Arizona. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—ATQ, v. 7, March, 1993. Reproduced by permission.— Comparative Drama, v. 19, Fall, 1985. © copyright 1985, by the Editors of Comparative Drama. Reproduced by permission.—Concerning Poetry, v. 19, 1986. Copyright © 1986, Western Washington University. Reproduced by permission.— Dickinson Studies, n. 54, Bonus 1984 for “A Continuation of the Tradition of the Irony of Death” by Frances Bzowski. Reproduced by permission of the Literary Estate of Frances Bzowski./ n. 45, June, 1983 for “The Naked and the Veiled: Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson in Counterpoint” by Natalie Harris; n. 54, Bonus 1984 for “A Dickinson Diagnosis” by Michael Staub; n. 77, June, 1991 for “Dickinson and the Process of Death” by Paula Hendrickson; n. 83, December, 1992 for “Disengagement from Process in ED’s 712” by Lee Winniford. All reproduced by permission of the respective authors.—The Explicator, v. 43, Spring, 1985. Copyright © 1985 Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation. Reproducedwith permission of the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, published by Heldref Publications, 1319 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802.—Huntington Library Quarterly, v. 44, Autumn,1981. © 1981 by The Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Reproduced with the permission of the Henry E. Huntington Library.—Journal of American Studies, v. 30, August, 1996 for “Rewriting the Gold Rush: Twain, Harte and Homosociality” by Peter Stoneley. © 1996 Cambridge University Press. Reproduced with the permission of Cambridge University Press and the author.—Keats-Shelley Journal, v. XLV, 1996. Reproduced by permission.—Keats-Shelley Review, n. 2, 1987. Reproduced by permission.—Literature and Psychology, v. 15, Summer, 1965; v. 23, 1973.Copyright 1965, 1973 by the Editor. Both reproduced by permission of Literature & Psychology: a Psychoanalytic and Cultural Criticism.—Melville Society Extracts, n. 58, May, 1984.Reproduced by permission.—Mosaic, v. 25, Spring, 1992. © Mosaic 1992. All rights reserved. Acknowledgment of previous publication is herewith made.—The New England Quarterly, v. LXII, September, 1989 for “’A Slow Solace’: Emily Dickinson and Consolation” by Janet W. Buell. Copyright 1989 by The New England Quarterly. Reproduced by permission of the publisher.—Nineteenth-Century Fiction, v. 34, September, 1979 for “Incest and the Structure of Henry Esmond” by Sylvia Manning. Copyright 1979 by the Regents of theUniversity of California. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Poe Studies, v. 15, December, 1982 for “Guiomar’s Poetics of Death and ‘The Raven’” by David Baguley. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Quarterly News-Letter, v.XXX, Fall, 1965. Reproduced by permission of The Book Club of California.—Science-Fiction Studies, v. 10, July, 1983. Copyright © SFS Publications, 1983. Reproduced by permission.—Eighteenth-Century Fiction, n. 3, Fall, 1991 for “Mansfield Revisited: Incestuous Sibling Relationships in Austen’s Mansfield Park” by Glenda A. Hudson. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in Short Fiction, v. 25, Summer, 1988. Copyright 1988 by Newberry College. Reproduced by permission.—Studies in the Novel, v. XIV, Winter, 1982; v.XIX, Spring, 1987. © 1982, 1987 by North Texas State University. Both reproduced by permission.—Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, v. 13, Fall, 1994. © 1994, The University of Tulsa. Reproduced by permission.—Walt Whitman Review, v. 27, December, 1981 for “Whitman’s ‘This Compost,’ Baudelaire’s ‘A Carrion’: Out of Decay Comes an Awful Beauty” by Anthony X. Marriage. © Copyright 1981 by Wayne State University Press. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.

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Bassein, Beth Ann. From Women and Death: Linkages in Western Thought and Literature. Greenwood Press, 1984. Copyright © 1984 by Beth Ann Bassein. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.—Berkove, Lawrence I., and Michael Kowalewski. From “The Literature of the Mining Camps,” in Updating the Literary West. Texas Christian University Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997, Western Literature Association. Reproduced by permission.—Boker, Pamela A. From The Grief Taboo in American Literature: Loss and Prolonged Adolescence in Twain, Melville, and Hemingway. New York University Press, 1996. © 1996 by New York University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of New York University Press. Melville excerpts reproduced by permission of Northwestern University Press/Newberry Library.—Carlson, Susan Anne. From “Incest and Rage in Charlotte Bronte’s Novelettes,” in Creating Safe Space: Violence and Women’s Writing. Edited by Tomoko Kuribayashi and Julie Tharp. State University of New York Press, 1998. © 1998, State University of New York. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of State University of New York Press.—Cavitch, David. From “The Lament in ‘Song of the Broad-Axe,’” in Walt Whitman: Here and Now. Edited by Joann P. Krieg. Greenwood Press, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by Hofstra University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., Westport, CT.—Fiedler, Leslie A. From Love and Death in the American Novel. Revised edition. Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1966. Copyright © 1960, 1966 by Leslie A. Fiedler. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Dell Publishing, a division of Random House, Inc. For on line information about other Random House, Inc., books and authors, see the Internet Web Site at http://www.randomhouse.com.—Ford, Jane M. From Patriarchy and Incest from Shakespeare to Joyce. University Press of Florida, 1998. Copyright 1998 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the University Press of Florida.—Himes, Audra Dibert. From “‘Knew Shame, and Knew Desire’: Ambivalence as Structure in Mary Shelley’s Mathilda,”in Iconoclastic Departures: Mary Shelley after Frankenstein. Sydny M. Conger, Frederick S. Frank, Gregory O’Dea, eds. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997. © 1997 by Associated University Presses, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Johnson, Susan Lee. From Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush. W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Susan Lee Johnson. All Rights Reserved. Reproduced by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.—Kennedy, J. Gerald. From “Phantasms of Death in Poe’s Fiction,” in The Haunted Dusk: American Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1920. Howard Kerr, John W. Crowley, and Charles L. Crow, eds. University of Georgia Press, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by the University of Georgia Press, 1983. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Kennedy, J. Gerald. From Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing. Yale University Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Yale University. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Kennedy, J. Gerald. From “Poe, ‘Ligeia,’ and the Problem of Dying Women,” in New Essays on Poe’s Major Tales. Edited by Kenneth Silverman. Cambridge University Press, 1993. © Cambridge University Press1993. Reproduced with permission of Cambridge University Press and the author.—Kennedy, J. Gerald. From “Pym Pourri: Decomposing the Textured Body,” in Poe’s Pym: Critical Explorations. Edited by Richard Kopley. Duke University Press, 1992. © 1992 Duke University Press, Durham, NC. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Lerner, Laurence. From Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century. Vanderbilt University Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by Vanderbilt University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Morrow, Patrick D. From “Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and the San Francisco Circle,” in A Literary History of the American West. Texas Christian University Press, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by The Western Literature Association. Reproduced by permission.—Pollak, Vivian R. From “‘Death as Repression, Repression as Death’: A Reading of Whitman’s ‘Calamus’ Poems,” in Walt Whitman of Mickle Street: A Centennial Collection. Edited by Geoffrey M. Sill. University of Tennessee Press, 1994.Copyright © 1994 The University of Tennessee Press/Knoxville. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permissionof Geoffrey M. Sill.—Rudnytsky, Peter L. From an introduction to The Incest Theme in Literature and Legend: Fundamentals of a Psychology of Literary Creation, by Otto Rank. Translated by Gregory C. Richter. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. © 1992 The Johns Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press.—Shneidman, Edwin. From “The Suicidal Psycho-Logics of Moby Dick,”in Youth Suicide Prevention: Lessons from Literature. Edited by Sara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker. Plenum Press, 1989. © 1989 Plenum Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher and the author.—Simonds, Wendy, and Barbara Katz Rothman. From Centuries of Solace: Expressions of Maternal Grief in Popular Literature. Temple University Press, 1992. Copyright © 1992 by Wendy Simonds and Barbara Katz Rothman. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—St. Armand, Barton Levi. From “‘Looking at Death, is Dying’: Understanding Dickinson’s Morbidity,” in Approaches to Teaching Dickinson’s Poetry. Edited by Robin Riley Fast and Christine Mack Gordon. The Modern Language Association of America,1989. Copyright © 1989 by The Modern Language Association of America. Reproduced by permission of the Modern Language Association of America.—Vendler, Helen. From “Whitman’s ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,’” in Textual Analysis: Some Readers Reading. Edited by Mary Ann Caws. Modern Language Association of America, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by The Modern Language Association of America. Reproduced by permission of The Modern Language Association of America.

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Byron, George Gordon, engraving. The Library of Congress.—Dickinson, Emily, photograph of a painting. The Library of Congress.—Fitzgerald, Geraldine, being consoled by Griffith Jones, in a scene from the film version of George Eliot’s novel, The Mill on the Floss, directed by TimWhelan. The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—Gold diggers, photograph. The Library of Congress.—Harte, Bret, engraving. The Library of Congress.—Illustration from the Herman Melville novel Moby Dick, photograph. © Bettmann/Corbis. Reproduced by permission.—Olivier, Laurence, and Merle Oberon in the film “Wuthering Heights,” photograph. The Kobal Collection. Reproduced by permission.—Shelley, Percy B., painting. AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.—Title page from Manfred, A Dramatic Poem, by Lord Byron. The University of Michigan Library. Reproduced by permission.—Title page from The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches, by Francis Bret Harte. The University of Michigan Library. Reproduced by permission.