Table of Contents

1. Cover
2. Volume I
   1. Editors
   2. Notes on Contributors to Volume I
   3. General Introduction
      1. Volume I: Origins to 1820
      2. Volume II: 1820–1914
      3. Volume III: 1914 to the Present
      4. Arrangement and Contents
      5. Acknowledgments
   4. Introduction to Volume I
      1. Acknowledgments
      2. References
   5. Chronology: Origins to 1820
   6. 1 The Storyteller’s Universe
      1. The Tests of Time, Abundance, and Expansiveness
      2. The Art of Storytelling
      3. Gender, Culture, and Language Diversified
      4. The (Practically) Invisible American Literature
      5. Constructive Questioning of Our Concepts of Literature
      6. Challenging Concepts of Author and Context
      7. Disrupting Genre Constructions
      8. Upending Spatial and Chronological Organizing Principles
      9. Challenging Notions of the Work Done by Literature
      10. How Should Indigenous Oral Literature Be Represented and Experienced?
      11. Scholarship and Literature Impacting Communities
      12. Conclusion
      13. References
      14. Further Reading
   7. 2 Cross‐Cultural Encounters in Early American Literatures
      1. References
      2. Further Reading
   8. 3 Settlement Literatures Before and Beyond the Stories of Nations
      1. Elements of Discovery
      2. Settlement Histories
      3. Conclusion
      4. References
   9. 4 The Puritan Culture of Letters
      1. The Puritan Culture of Perception
      2. Puritan Spiritual Autobiographies
      3. Puritan Sermons
      4. Puritan Poetry
      5. Puritan Histories
      6. References
      7. Further Reading
   10. 5 Writing the Salem Witch Trials
       1. Historical Outline
       2. Interpretations
       3. The Writings of the Salem Witch Trials
       4. Concluding Remarks
       5. Acknowledgment
       6. References
       7. Further Reading
   11. 6 Captivity
       1. New English Babylon
       2. Mary Rowlandson et al.
       3. Types of Captivity
       4. References
       5. Further Reading
   12. 7 Africans in Early America
       1. Beyond the Common View
       2. From the Archival Margins
       3. Reading in the Gaps
       4. Decentering from the Margins
       5. Speaking and Writing Lives
       6. New Perspectives on Authorship
       7. References
       8. Further Reading
   13. 8 Migration, Exile, Imperialism
       1. Spanish‐Language Literatures of the Colonial Southwest
       2. The French‐Language Literatures of Colonial Louisiana
       3. The Dutch‐Language Literatures of New Netherland
       4. The German‐Language Literature of Colonial Pennsylvania
       5. Conclusion
       6. References
       7. Further Reading
   14. 9 Environment and Environmentalism
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   15. 10 Acknowledging Early American Poetry
       1. The Course of Early American Poetry
       2. Horizons and Prospects for the Study of Early American Poetry
       3. References
       4. Further Reading
   16. 11 Travel Writings in Early America, 1680–1820
       1. Historical Contexts and Critical Receptions
       2. Travelers’ Observations, Ruminations, and Tales
       3. References
   17. 12 Early Native American Literacies to 1820
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   18. 13 The Varieties of Religious Expression in Early American Literature
       1. The Roots of Religious Freedom
       2. Religious Transformations in Native American and African American Verbal Arts
       3. Catholic, Quaker, and Jewish Writing
       4. Future Directions
       5. References
       6. Further Reading
   19. 14 Benjamin Franklin
       1. Franklin’s Writings
       2. Franklin’s Life
       3. Franklin as Printer
       4. Franklin as Writer
       5. Franklin and Print Culture
       6. Franklin in Contemporary Scholarship
       7. References
       8. Further Reading
   20. 15 Writing Lives
       1. Spiritual Beginnings
       2. Feminism and Form
       3. Race and Autobiography
       4. References
       5. Further Reading
   21. 16 Captivity Recast
       1. Converts and Captives in the Early Eighteenth Century
       2. A Nation in Chains: Late Eighteenth‐Century Captivity Narratives
       3. Beyond Exceptionalism
       4. American Captivity: Redux
       5. References
       6. Further Reading
   22. 17 Gender, Sex, and Seduction in Early American Literature
       1. Sex/Gender
       2. Sexuality
       3. Seduction
       4. Conclusion
       5. References
       6. Further Reading
   23. 18 Letters in Early American Manuscript and Print Cultures
       1. Handwritten Letters
       2. Printed Letters
       3. Epistolary Novels
       4. References
       5. Further Reading
   24. 19 Early American Evangelical Print Culture
       1. Conversion Narratives
       2. Revival Journals
       3. Verse
       4. The Print Itinerant
       5. References
       6. Further Reading
   25. 20 The First Black Atlantic
       1. Genesis of the Idea of the Black Atlantic
       2. Archival and Textual History of the First Black Atlantic
       3. The First Figures
       4. Themes and Genres of the First Black Atlantic
       5. Toward Continuing Scholarship
       6. References
       7. Further Reading
   26. 21 Manuscripts, Manufacts, and Social Authorship
       1. Object Biography: Social Authorship as Iteration
       2. Emplacement: Intimate and Counterpublics of Politeness
       3. The Thing‐Poem as Manufact
       4. Stitching Hands
       5. Kneeling Slaves
       6. Painted Baskets
       7. Conclusion: Sensing Digital Things
       8. References
       9. Further Reading
   27. 22 Cosmopolitan Correspondences
       1. Jefferson’s Natural History
       2. Cosmopolitan America
       3. Enlightenment and Nostalgia
       4. References
       5. Further Reading
   28. 23 Revolutionary Print Culture, 1763–1776
       1. References
   29. 24 Founding Documents
       1. Fabulous Retroactivity
       2. RIP: Republicans in Print
       3. The Return of Every Body
       4. References
       5. Further Reading
   30. 25 From the Wharf to the Woods
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   31. 26 Performance, Theatricality, and Early American Drama
       1. The Theater in Early America
       2. Native Acts, Playing Indian, and Barker’s Indian Princess
       3. Enslavement and Resistance in Early American Theater
       4. The Staging of Gender Relations and Rowson’s Slaves in Algiers (1794)
       5. Revolutionary Performance and Dunlap’s André (1798)
       6. Synthesis: Tyler’s Contrast (1787)
       7. References
       8. Further Reading
   32. 27 Charles Brockden Brown and the Novel in the 1790s
       1. Reception History and the Shape of Brown’s Corpus of Writings
       2. Reconceptualizing the Novel‐form
       3. Romance as Socially Engaged Narrative
       4. References
       5. Further Reading
   33. 28 Medicine, Disability, and Early American Literature
       1. Literature and Medicine
       2. Disability
       3. References
   34. 29 Remapping the Canonical Interregnum
       1. The Novels of the Canonical Interregnum
       2. Rip’s Slumber and Questions of Canon Formation
       3. References
       4. Further Reading
   35. 30 Commerce, Class, and Cash
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   36. 31 Haiti and the Early American Imagination
       1. Mistakes Are Meaningful
       2. An Aspiring Novelist Rises
       3. Novel Politics
       4. References
       5. Further Reading
   37. Index
3. Volume II
   1. Editors
   2. Notes on Contributors to Volume II
   3. General Introduction
      1. Volume I: Origins to 1820
      2. Volume II: 1820–1914
      3. Volume III: 1914 to the Present
      4. Arrangement and Contents
      5. Acknowledgments
   4. Introduction to Volume II
      1. References
   5. Chronology: 1820–1914
   6. 1 The Transformation of Literary Production, 1820–1865
      1. References
      2. Further Reading
   7. 2 Travel Writing
      1. The West
      2. The Far West
      3. The South
      4. References
      5. Further Reading
   8. 3 The Historical Romance
      1. References
      2. Further Reading
   9. 4 The Gothic Tale
      1. References
      2. Further Reading
   10. 5 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Transcendentalism
       1. Origins
       2. Conversations in Print
       3. Transcendentalism in the World
       4. References
   11. 6 Henry David Thoreau and the Literature of the Environment
       1. Defining Environmental Literature
       2. The Alteration of Landscapes
       3. The Professionalization of Science
       4. The Collaborative Origins of Environmental Literature
       5. Movement Toward an Environmental Ethic
       6. Reconciling Science and Higher Law
       7. Acknowledgment
       8. References
       9. Further Reading
   12. 7 Herman Melville and the Antebellum Reading Public
       1. Shocking the “Tribe of Common Readers”
       2. The Typee Publicity Campaign
       3. Critical Allies and Enemies
       4. The Reception of Moby‐Dick
       5. Melville’s Magazine Audience
       6. References
       7. Further Reading
   13. 8 Women Writers at Midcentury
       1. The Past in the Present: Novels, Nostalgia, and Nationalism
       2. “Domestic Tale[s] of the Present Time”
       3. Time Future: Print Culture and Commodity Speculation
       4. The Future Is Now
       5. References
       6. Further Reading
   14. 9 Popular Poetry and the Rise of Anthologies
       1. Earliest Anthologies: Establishing an American Literary Identity
       2. Commercially Viable Anthologies and Gender Segregation
       3. Literary Nationalism and Household Anthologies
       4. Canon Revision at the End of the Century
       5. References
   15. 10 Walt Whitman and the New York Literary World
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   16. 11 Emily Dickinson and the Tradition of Women Poets
       1. Gender, Publication, and Reception
       2. “When I put them in the Gown”: Formal Experimentation
       3. “The Ethiop within”: Race, Abolition, and the Civil War
       4. Conclusion
       5. References
       6. Further Reading
   17. 12 The Literature of Antebellum Reform
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   18. 13 Sex, the Body, and Health Reform
       1. Cobwebs for Protection and Bulwarks against Love: Patterns in Health and Sexual Reform
       2. “Circumstance”
       3. Manly Love and Its Discontents
       4. References
   19. 14 Proslavery and Antislavery Literature
       1. Antislavery Texts before Uncle Tom
       2. Proslavery Writings
       3. Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Literary Studies
       4. Legacies
       5. Proslavery Fiction after Uncle Tom’s Cabin
       6. Conclusion
       7. References
       8. Further Reading
   20. 15 Gender and the Construction of Antebellum Slave Narratives
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   21. 16 Antebellum Oratory
       1. Henry Clay
       2. Daniel Webster
       3. The Abolitionists
       4. Southern Eloquence
       5. Abraham Lincoln
       6. References
       7. Further Reading
   22. 17 Literature and the Civil War
       1. The Landscape of the War
       2. The Suffering Body
       3. The Bloody Chasm
       4. Behind the Scenes
       5. References
       6. Further Reading
   23. 18 Disability and Literature
       1. Antebellum Conversations
       2. Postbellum Conversations
       3. References
       4. Further Reading
   24. 19 The Development of Print Culture, 1865–1914
       1. The Business of Literature: Professionalization and Commercialization of the Arts
       2. Novels, Serialization, and Periodical Culture
       3. The Democratization of Publishing: The Colored American Magazine and Pulp Fiction
       4. Mass Culture, “Hack” Writing, and Genre Fiction
       5. Conclusion
       6. References
       7. Further Reading
   25. 20 Local Color and the Rise of Regionalism
       1. The West and Midwest
       2. The South
       3. New England
       4. Conclusion
       5. References
   26. 21 Poetry, Periodicals, and the Marketplace
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   27. 22 Realism from William Dean Howells to Edith Wharton
       1. William Dean Howells
       2. Edith Wharton
       3. References
       4. Further Reading
   28. 23 Mark Twain and the Idea of American Identity
       1. References
   29. 24 Henry James at Home and Abroad
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   30. 25 Naturalism
       1. Naturalism and Its Critics
       2. Frank Norris
       3. Theodore Dreiser
       4. Stephen Crane
       5. Jack London
       6. References
       7. Further Reading
   31. 26 Social Protest Fiction
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   32. 27 The Immigrant Experience
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   33. 28 Double Consciousness
       1. Double Consciousness at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
       2. Of Du Boisian Double Consciousness
       3. Voicing Black Women’s Double Consciousness
       4. Acknowledgment
       5. References
       6. Further Reading
   34. 29 Native American Voices
       1. References
   35. 30 Latina/o Voices
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   36. 31 The Emergence of an American Drama, 1820–1914
       1. Patriots and Playwrights of the Early Republic
       2. History and Romance in the Jacksonian Era
       3. Melodrama and Minstrelsy
       4. Social Satire
       5. Local Heroes
       6. Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconciliation
       7. Staging the West
       8. Quest for Realism
       9. Approaching Modernism
       10. The American Musical
       11. Staging a Transnational and Intercultural America
       12. References
       13. Further Reading
   37. Index
4. Volume III
   1. Editors
   2. Notes on Contributors to Volume III
   3. General Introduction
      1. Volume I: Origins to 1820
      2. Volume II: 1820–1914
      3. Volume III: 1914 to the Present
      4. Arrangement and Contents
      5. Acknowledgments
   4. Introduction to Volume III
      1. Reference
   5. Chronology: 1914 to the Present
   6. 1 Magazines, Little and Large
      1. Backgrounds of Print Culture
      2. Comparing Camera Work and the Saturday Evening Post
      3. A Range of Little Magazines
      4. Conclusions: A Culture of Magazines
      5. References
      6. Further Reading
   7. 2 Regional Literary Expressions
      1. Comparative Regionalisms
      2. The Revolt of the Provinces: the Midwestern Grotesque
      3. Regionalisms of the Migratory West: Steinbeck and Stegner
      4. O’Connor’s South: Temporal Disruption and Spatial Displacement
      5. Hurston’s Atlantic World and the Uncertain Sphere of Regional Diversity
      6. References
      7. Further Reading
   8. 3 The Literature of the US South
      1. The Early Modern Writers of the US South and the Writers Who Inspired Them
      2. References
      3. Further Reading
   9. 4 American Literature and the Academy
      1. Parochial Nationalism (1915–1945)
      2. Imperialistic Expansion (1945–1966)
      3. Revolutionary Self‐Critique (1966–1989)
      4. Robust Ecumenism and Diminished Solemnity (1989–Present)
      5. References
      6. Further Reading
   10. 5 The Literature of World War I
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   11. 6 The Course of Modern American Poetry
       1. Basic Frameworks from Which to Appreciate Modernist Poetry
       2. Pound’s Imagism
       3. Williams and Loy: The Transformation ofImagist Ideals from Within
       4. Eliot’s Impersonality and New Versions of Subjectivity
       5. Stevens and Moore: Presentation as Act of Mind
       6. Exploring the Possibilities of a Political Poetry: The 1930s
       7. Postmodernisms in American Poetry
       8. References
       9. Further Reading
   12. 7 Modernism and the American Novel
       1. The Experimentalists: Hemingway, Hammett, Dos Passos, Stein
       2. Finding the New in the Traditional: Wharton, Cather, Fitzgerald, Faulkner
       3. References
       4. Further Reading
   13. 8 The Little Theater Movement
       1. Plays of the Little Theater Movement
       2. Realistic Little Theater Plays
       3. Experimental Little Theater Plays
       4. Conclusion
       5. References
       6. Further Reading
   14. 9 The Lost Generation and American Expatriatism
       1. Crises of Representation
       2. Perfectly Franc: Gertrude Stein and the Exchange Crisis
       3. Finding the Lost Generation’s Future
       4. References
       5. Further Reading
   15. 10 The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   16. 11 Proletarian Literature
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   17. 12 Realism in American Drama
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   18. 13 Nature Writing and the New Environmentalism
       1. Political, Personal, Poetic: Early Twentieth‐Century Nature Writing
       2. From Conservation to Environmentalism to Eco‐Sabotage
       3. The Academy Discovers Nature Writing
       4. The Future of American Nature Writing
       5. References
       6. Further Reading
   19. 14 The Literature and Film of World War II
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   20. 15 The Beat Minds of Their Generation
       1. Kerouac: The Great Rememberer
       2. Ginsberg: Angelheaded Hipster
       3. Burroughs: The Cut‐Up
       4. Ferlinghetti: Literary Entrepreneur
       5. Waldman: Beat Outrider
       6. Corso: Captain Poetry
       7. Di Prima: Protean Spirit
       8. Snyder: Zen Ecology
       9. Others in the Beat Circle
       10. References
       11. Further Reading
   21. 16 The Black Arts Movement and the Racial Divide
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   22. 17 Literary Self‐Fashioning in the Pharmacological Age
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   23. 18 New Frontiers in Postmodern Theater
       1. The Postmodern Condition of Drama and Theater
       2. Survey of Secondary Studies
       3. The Theater of Transformation as a Model of Postmodern Drama
       4. Edward Albee: From the Absurd to the Postmodern
       5. Megan Terry and Rochelle Owens: Feminism on the Postmodern Stage
       6. Suzan‐Lori Parks: Postmodern Transformations of History as Play
       7. After Postmodern Theater, What Next?
       8. References
       9. Further Reading
   24. 19 Poetry at the End of the Millennium
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   25. 20 The Literature and Film of the Vietnam War
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   26. 21 Gay and Lesbian Literature
       1. Homosexual Modernity
       2. Privacy, Publicity, and Politics at Midcentury (1945–1965)
       3. Liberation, Commerce, and Diversity
       4. References
       5. Further Reading
   27. 22 American Literature in Languages Other than English
       1. The Ethnic Press
       2. Travelers and Exiles
       3. Spanish
       4. Yiddish
       5. Chinese Literature
       6. French
       7. Hebrew
       8. German
       9. Und So Weiter
       10. References
       11. Further Reading
   28. 23 Jewish American Literary Forms
       1. The Immigrant Experience
       2. Post‐World War II Writers
       3. Literary Responses to the Holocaust
       4. The New Wave of Jewish American Writing in the Twenty‐first Century
       5. References
       6. Further Reading
   29. 24 Native American Literary Forms
       1. Native Literatures: Yet Another Introduction
       2. Native Autobiography: “The Story of a Life … and of a People’s Dream”
       3. Native Fiction: “You Can Go Home Again”?
       4. Native Poetry: Of Dream Wheels, Eagles, and Iowa City Bars
       5. A Coda of Sorts
       6. References
       7. Further Reading
   30. 25 Asian American Literary Forms
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   31. 26 Latina/o Literary Forms
       1. Magical Realism
       2. Immigrant Narrative
       3. Short Fiction
       4. Memoir/Autobiography/Personal Essay
       5. Historical and Political Fiction
       6. Poetry
       7. Drama
       8. Narrative of Crisis
       9. Testimonio
       10. Current and Future Directions
       11. References
       12. Further Reading
   32. 27 African American Fiction After Hiroshima and Nagasaki
       1. Civic Experiments, 1945–1968
       2. Stylish Citizens, 1969–1993
       3. Acceptable Blackness, 1994–
       4. References
       5. Further Reading
   33. 28 Creative Nonfictions
       1. Nonfiction Is Reflection
       2. Remembering, Re‐seeing, Reinscribing
       3. Nonfiction Is
       4. Non‐Fiction Non‐Naming
       5. Nonfiction Was: Pre‐American Foundations
       6. New World Nonfiction
       7. Nonfiction Does
       8. Non‐Fiction, Non‐Poetry
       9. Nonfiction Is Refraction
       10. References
       11. Further Reading
   34. 29 The Rise and Nature of the Graphic Novel
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   35. 30 The Digital Revolution and the Future of American Reading
       1. A Potted History of Digital Reading
       2. The Content versus Container Debate
       3. The Cognitive Side of Reading
       4. The Aesthetic and Sensory Sides of Reading
       5. The Pragmatic Side of Reading
       6. Reinventing Reading and Reading Spaces
       7. Putting the Digital Revolution and Reading in Context
       8. Reading in a “Both/And” World
       9. References
       10. Further Reading
   36. Index
5. Consolidated Index
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