Table of Contents
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
1 Poetry, Prose, and the Politics of Literary Form
2 The Critical Work of American Literature
Franklin’s Systemic Reading Lessons: Capitalism as Cannibalism
Hawthorne’s Systemic Reading Lessons: The Whole System of Society
Afterword: A Note on the Creative Work of American Literature
3 Women’s Worlds in the Nineteenth-Century US Novel
Conclusion: Our Nig and the Labor of Women’s Writing
4 The Secularization Narrative and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Thirsting for Knowledge: Wieland and the End of Epistemology
Prophecy and Sacred American History in The Book of Mormon
Begetting and Believing: Du Bois’s Genealogy
5 Literatures of Technology, Technologies of Literature
Emerson’s Question Concerning Technology
Franklin’s Technology of the Self
The Work of Art in the Age of Iron Mills and the Dynamo
6 Excluded Middles: Social Inequality in American Literature
7 Narrative Medicine, Biocultures, and the Visualization of Health and Disease
From Narrative Medicine to Biocultures
8 Performance Anxieties: The A-Literary Companions of American Literary Studies
9 Drama, Theatre, and Performance before O’Neill
10 Disliking It: American Poetry and American Literary Studies
12 Mass Media and Literary Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
13 Cabeza de Vaca, Lope de Oviedo, and Americas Exceptionalism
14 Worlding America: The Hemispheric Text-Network
Benito Cereno and the Hemispheric Text-Network
Antecedents without Influences: Hugo’s Bug-Jargal
Spanish: Everyone’s Language of Conspiracy
The Translator in the Network: Ritchie’s The Slave-King
Descendants, Antecedents, and Precedents C.L.R. James in the Text-Network
15 Worlds of Color, Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in Early American Literary History
The Picture of Human Life in The Scarlet Letter
Revisiting the World of The Scarlet Letter Today
17 American Literature in Transnational Perspective: The Case of Mark Twain
19 New Regionalisms: US-Caribbean Literary Relations
20 American Literature as Ecosystem: The Examples of Euclides da Cunha and Cormac McCarthy
The Natural Sciences and Ecosystems
Euclides da Cunha and the Law of Extraterritoriality
McCarthy, Biocentrism, and Literature as Ecosystem
21 Settler States of Feeling: National Belonging and the Erasure of Native American Presence
The Affective Life of Jurisdiction
Citizenship and Its Discontents
22 Tribal Nations and the Other Territories of American Indian Literary History
The Territories of Tribal Nation Writing
24 Democratic Cultures and the First Century of US Literature
Democratic Conflict and Early US Literature
Self Culture versus Interpersonal Democracy
25 American Literature and Law
26 Sexuality and American Literary Studies
27 Exquisite Fragility: Human Being in the Aftermath of War
28 The Posthuman Turn: Rewriting Species in Recent American Literature
29 Narrative and Intellectual Disability
30 Reading for Asian American Literature
New Directions for Literary History
Asian American Historiographic Fictions
Deconstructing Race: Du Bois’s Challengers, Alexander Crummell, and James McCune Smith
32 Speculative Realism and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary American Fiction
The Novel’s Postrace and Post-Postmodern Dilemma
The Multidimensional Protagonist
The Postrace Aesthetic in a Post-Postmodern World
33 The New Life of the New Forms: American Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities
Electronic Imaginative Compositions