U.S. Studies Online: The BAAS Postgraduate Journal

Issue 3, Spring 2003: Special Conference Edition

Guest Editors: Rachel van Duyvenbode & Colin Howley

Contents

“Coast to Coast: An Aerial Introduction”

RACHEL VAN DUYVENBODE AND COLIN HOWLEY, THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD

“African American Responses to Crime in Antebellum Richmond, Virginia”

JAMES CAMPBELL, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

“Norman Mailer and Pop: Totalitarianism and mass culture in The Naked and the Dead “

SCOTT DUGUID, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

“Epic Aspirations for the Great American Novel: John Updike’s Song of America”

CATHERINE MORLEY, OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY

“The American West through an Apocalyptic Lens: Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian”

ELIZABETH ROSEN, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

“Toni Morrison and the Magical Re-Visioning of Space”

SARA UPSTONE, BIRKBECK COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

“‘The Unutterable Entertainments of Paradise’: The Landscape and Waste in the Fiction of David Foster Wallace”

BEN WILLIAMSON, UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL