New England Quarterly - Northeastern University
The New England Quarterly

In the June 2010 Issue

"So Manifest a Signe from Heaven": Monstrosity and Heresy in the Antinomian Controversy
Karyn Valerius

"A Fine Romance": The Courtship Correspondence between Louisa Catherine Johnson and John Quincy Adams
Margery M. Heffron 

"Oh Dear! How the Factory Girls Do Rig Up!": Lowell's Self-Fashioning Workingwomen
Sylvia Jenkins Cook

Lineage as Capital: Genealogy in Antebellum New England
Francesca Morgan

Faking It: Social Bluffing and Class Difference in Howells's The Rise of Silas Lapham
Mary Marchand

"An Unpardonable Bit of Folly and Impertinence": Charles Francis Adams Jr., American Anti-Imperialists, and the Philippines 
Adam Cooke 

New Podcast: Louis Menand and Stephen Whitfield Discuss Catcher in the Rye

Click below to listen to Pulitzer Prize winner (and NEQ editorial board member) Louis Menand interviewing author Stephen J. Whitfield on his December 1997 NEQ essay "Cherished and Cursed: Toward a Social History of The Catcher in the Rye," now available for free download. The conversation was recorded on February 24, 2010. 

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