Please find below contents listing (with links to abstracts) for the second issue of the new journal, Comparative American Studies. To download a FREE sample copy of Comparative American Studies please click on this link: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/Details/issue/j0487v01i01.html For further information on the journal please visit: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/Details/j0487.html ********************************************* Comparative American Studies An International Journal Volume 01 Issue 02 - Publication Date: 1 June 2003 Left-wing isolationism, literature and ideology in America during the run-up to World War II: Malcolm Cowley, Waldo Frank, Archibald MacLeish, Lewis Mumford, John Strachey and the New Masses Clive Bush King's College, University of London, UK http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab033675.html Poverty, gender and literary criticism: reassessing Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth Gavin Jones Stanford University, CA, USA http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab033674.html The repeating island of gay Manhattan in Andrew Holleran's Nights in Aruba Myles Weber University of Maryland, College Park, USA http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab036171.html 'Attachments, Links, Dependencies': intercultural places in the poetry of Amy Clampitt Jutta Ernst Saarland University, Germany http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab033676.html 'The look of hope or the look of sadness': Robert Frank's dialogical vision Neil Campbell University of Derby, UK http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab033677.html Time and mobility in the writing of Charles W. Chesnutt Otto Heim University of Hong Kong http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab033678.html Book Reviews Berbineau, Lorenza Stevens, From Beacon Hill to the Crystal Palace: The 1851 Travel Diary of a Working-Class Woman, reviewed by Stephanie C. Palmer Rilling, Donna J., Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia 1790-1850, reviewed by George W. Boudreau Conte, Joseph M., Design and Debris: A Chaotics of Postmordern American Fiction, reviewed by John Beck Zolberg, Aristide R. and Peter M. Benda (eds), Global Migrants, Global Refugees: Problems and Solutions, reviewed by Stepanka Korytova-Magstadt Crane, Gregg D., Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature, reviewed by Rodica Mihaila Lev, Peter, American Films of the 70s: Conflicting Visions, reviewed by Geoffrey Klingsporn Debbie Cock Journals Marketing Manager SAGE Publications 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU Tel: +44 (0) 20 7374 0645 extn 2212 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7374 8741 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Website: www.sagepub.co.uk ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu