The Journal №8 2009

The Journal of the American Literature

Society of Japan No.8

（SAL Cumulative No.46）（英文号）

page	CONTENTS
1	Yoshiaki FURUI	“No One Is His Own Sire”: Dead Letters and Kinship in Melville’s Pierre
19	FUKUI Takashi	Smooth Criminals in the Late Nineteenth-Century U. S.: An Alger Hero's Possible Fall from Grace
39	Madoka KISHI	“To Embalm All the Tenderness of My Passion”: Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God as an Allegory of Anthropology
57	Greg BEVAN	“The Sentience of All Vegetable Things”: Paul Bowles, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Paranormal

77	New Arrivals
89	ALSJ General Meeting Program and Symposia Proceedings
103	Contributors