A Companion to American Literary Studies by Levander, Caroline F. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Title page Copyright page Dedication Notes on Contributors Introduction

Acknowledgments

Part I: Forms

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

Rich and Famous – and Happy? Children Names in Public Tutelage Danger 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 Epilogue: The Digital Future

6 Excluded Middles: Social Inequality in American Literature 7 Narrative Medicine, Biocultures, and the Visualization of Health and Disease

From Narrative Medicine to Biocultures Medicine’s Visual Culture Conclusion

8 Performance Anxieties: The A-Literary Companions of American Literary Studies

Ages and Stages Performing Anxiety

9 Drama, Theatre, and Performance before O’Neill 10 Disliking It: American Poetry and American Literary Studies 11 After the New Americanists: The Progress of Romance and the Romance of Progress in American Literary Studies 12 Mass Media and Literary Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Part II: Spaces

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

16 Transatlantic Returns

Space and Time Periodization

17 American Literature in Transnational Perspective: The Case of Mark Twain 18 Southern Literary Studies

The South: World and Nation The South Not Itself The New Southern Studies An End to Southern Studies?

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 International Indigeneity

23 Globalization

Part III: Practices

24 Democratic Cultures and the First Century of US Literature

Democratic Conflict and Early US Literature Frontier Democracy Self Culture versus Interpersonal Democracy Conclusion: 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

The Alien Moment The Cyborg Moment The Animal Moment

29 Narrative and Intellectual Disability 30 Reading for Asian American Literature

New Directions for Literary History Asian American Historiographic Fictions

31 Untangling Genealogy’s Tangled Skeins: Alexander Crummell, James McCune Smith, and Nineteenth-Century Black Literary Traditions

Special Destiny of the Negro Deconstructing Race: Du Bois’s Challengers, Alexander Crummell, and James McCune Smith Back to the Future

32 Speculative Realism and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary American Fiction

A New Postrace Generation The Meaning of “Postrace” Percival Everett’s Erasure The Appeal of Black Pathology My Pafology The Novel’s Postrace and Post-Postmodern Dilemma The Multidimensional Protagonist Sous Rature 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 Analysis Archives Politics and Institutions Conclusion: “The Lands to Be Welded Together” Acknowledgments

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