Colleen Glenney Boggs is Professor of English at Dartmouth College. A specialist in nineteenth-century American literature, she is the author of Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity (Columbia University Press, 2013) and Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773-1892 (Routledge, 2007). Her work has appeared in American Literature, PMLA, Cultural Critique, and J19, among others. She edited the volume MLA Options for Teaching the Literatures of the American Civil War (Modern Language Association, 2016), and co-edits the book series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures. She has served on the PMLA Editorial Board and as Director of the Leslie Center for the Humanities, and is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Mellon Foundation.

• Introduction 1: Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery 2: "We Are Coming, Father Abraham": Draft Substitutes and the Parodic Politics of Representation 3: Alter Egos: Biopolitical Subjectivity and the Economics of Substitution 4: The Heroic Substitute: African American Writers and the Formation of Black Citizen-Soldiers Conclusion

The author's clever analysis and daring questions are evident in each chapter of this wide-ranging and thought-provoking book.

Colleen Glenney Boggs is Professor of English at Dartmouth College. A specialist in nineteenth-century American literature, she is the author of Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity (Columbia University Press, 2013) and Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773-1892 (Routledge, 2007). Her work has appeared in American Literature, PMLA, Cultural Critique, and J19, among others. She edited the volume MLA Options for Teaching the Literatures of the American Civil War (Modern Language Association, 2016), and co-edits the book series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures. She has served on the PMLA Editorial Board and as Director of the Leslie Center for the Humanities, and is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Mellon Foundation.

• Introduction 1: Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery 2: "We Are Coming, Father Abraham": Draft Substitutes and the Parodic Politics of Representation 3: Alter Egos: Biopolitical Subjectivity and the Economics of Substitution 4: The Heroic Substitute: African American Writers and the Formation of Black Citizen-Soldiers Conclusion

The author's clever analysis and daring questions are evident in each chapter of this wide-ranging and thought-provoking book.

Colleen Glenney Boggs is Professor of English at Dartmouth College. A specialist in nineteenth-century American literature, she is the author of Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity (Columbia University Press, 2013) and Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773-1892 (Routledge, 2007). Her work has appeared in American Literature, PMLA, Cultural Critique, and J19, among others. She edited the volume MLA Options for Teaching the Literatures of the American Civil War (Modern Language Association, 2016), and co-edits the book series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures. She has served on the PMLA Editorial Board and as Director of the Leslie Center for the Humanities, and is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Mellon Foundation.

• Introduction 1: Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery 2: "We Are Coming, Father Abraham": Draft Substitutes and the Parodic Politics of Representation 3: Alter Egos: Biopolitical Subjectivity and the Economics of Substitution 4: The Heroic Substitute: African American Writers and the Formation of Black Citizen-Soldiers Conclusion

The author's clever analysis and daring questions are evident in each chapter of this wide-ranging and thought-provoking book.