A Companion to American Literature by Belasco, Susan;Gaul, Theresa Strouth;Johnson, Linck;Soto, Michael; -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Table of Contents Volume I

Editors Notes on Contributors to Volume I General Introduction

Volume I: Origins to 1820 Volume II: 1820–1914 Volume III: 1914 to the Present Arrangement and Contents Acknowledgments

Introduction to Volume I

Acknowledgments References

Chronology: Origins to 1820 1 The Storyteller’s Universe

The Tests of Time, Abundance, and Expansiveness The Art of Storytelling Gender, Culture, and Language Diversified The (Practically) Invisible American Literature Constructive Questioning of Our Concepts of Literature Challenging Concepts of Author and Context Disrupting Genre Constructions Upending Spatial and Chronological Organizing Principles Challenging Notions of the Work Done by Literature How Should Indigenous Oral Literature Be Represented and Experienced? Scholarship and Literature Impacting Communities Conclusion References Further Reading

2 Cross‐Cultural Encounters in Early American Literatures

References Further Reading

3 Settlement Literatures Before and Beyond the Stories of Nations

Elements of Discovery Settlement Histories Conclusion References

4 The Puritan Culture of Letters

The Puritan Culture of Perception Puritan Spiritual Autobiographies Puritan Sermons Puritan Poetry Puritan Histories References Further Reading

5 Writing the Salem Witch Trials

Historical Outline Interpretations The Writings of the Salem Witch Trials Concluding Remarks Acknowledgment References Further Reading

6 Captivity

New English Babylon Mary Rowlandson et al. Types of Captivity References Further Reading

7 Africans in Early America

Beyond the Common View From the Archival Margins Reading in the Gaps Decentering from the Margins Speaking and Writing Lives New Perspectives on Authorship References Further Reading

8 Migration, Exile, Imperialism

Spanish‐Language Literatures of the Colonial Southwest The French‐Language Literatures of Colonial Louisiana The Dutch‐Language Literatures of New Netherland The German‐Language Literature of Colonial Pennsylvania Conclusion References Further Reading

9 Environment and Environmentalism

References Further Reading

10 Acknowledging Early American Poetry

The Course of Early American Poetry Horizons and Prospects for the Study of Early American Poetry References Further Reading

11 Travel Writings in Early America, 1680–1820

Historical Contexts and Critical Receptions Travelers’ Observations, Ruminations, and Tales References

12 Early Native American Literacies to 1820

References Further Reading

13 The Varieties of Religious Expression in Early American Literature

The Roots of Religious Freedom Religious Transformations in Native American and African American Verbal Arts Catholic, Quaker, and Jewish Writing Future Directions References Further Reading

14 Benjamin Franklin

Franklin’s Writings Franklin’s Life Franklin as Printer Franklin as Writer Franklin and Print Culture Franklin in Contemporary Scholarship References Further Reading

15 Writing Lives

Spiritual Beginnings Feminism and Form Race and Autobiography References Further Reading

16 Captivity Recast

Converts and Captives in the Early Eighteenth Century A Nation in Chains: Late Eighteenth‐Century Captivity Narratives Beyond Exceptionalism American Captivity: Redux References Further Reading

17 Gender, Sex, and Seduction in Early American Literature

Sex/Gender Sexuality Seduction Conclusion References Further Reading

18 Letters in Early American Manuscript and Print Cultures

Handwritten Letters Printed Letters Epistolary Novels References Further Reading

19 Early American Evangelical Print Culture

Conversion Narratives Revival Journals Verse The Print Itinerant References Further Reading

20 The First Black Atlantic

Genesis of the Idea of the Black Atlantic Archival and Textual History of the First Black Atlantic The First Figures Themes and Genres of the First Black Atlantic Toward Continuing Scholarship References Further Reading

21 Manuscripts, Manufacts, and Social Authorship

Object Biography: Social Authorship as Iteration Emplacement: Intimate and Counterpublics of Politeness The Thing‐Poem as Manufact Stitching Hands Kneeling Slaves Painted Baskets Conclusion: Sensing Digital Things References Further Reading

22 Cosmopolitan Correspondences

Jefferson’s Natural History Cosmopolitan America Enlightenment and Nostalgia References Further Reading

23 Revolutionary Print Culture, 1763–1776

References

24 Founding Documents

Fabulous Retroactivity RIP: Republicans in Print The Return of Every Body References Further Reading

25 From the Wharf to the Woods

References Further Reading

26 Performance, Theatricality, and Early American Drama

The Theater in Early America Native Acts, Playing Indian, and Barker’s Indian Princess Enslavement and Resistance in Early American Theater The Staging of Gender Relations and Rowson’s Slaves in Algiers (1794) Revolutionary Performance and Dunlap’s André (1798) Synthesis: Tyler’s Contrast (1787) References Further Reading

27 Charles Brockden Brown and the Novel in the 1790s

Reception History and the Shape of Brown’s Corpus of Writings Reconceptualizing the Novel‐form Romance as Socially Engaged Narrative References Further Reading

28 Medicine, Disability, and Early American Literature

Literature and Medicine Disability References

29 Remapping the Canonical Interregnum

The Novels of the Canonical Interregnum Rip’s Slumber and Questions of Canon Formation References Further Reading

30 Commerce, Class, and Cash

References Further Reading

31 Haiti and the Early American Imagination

Mistakes Are Meaningful An Aspiring Novelist Rises Novel Politics References Further Reading

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Volume II

Editors Notes on Contributors to Volume II General Introduction

Volume I: Origins to 1820 Volume II: 1820–1914 Volume III: 1914 to the Present Arrangement and Contents Acknowledgments

Introduction to Volume II

References

Chronology: 1820–1914 1 The Transformation of Literary Production, 1820–1865

References Further Reading

2 Travel Writing

The West The Far West The South References Further Reading

3 The Historical Romance

References Further Reading

4 The Gothic Tale

References Further Reading

5 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Transcendentalism

Origins Conversations in Print Transcendentalism in the World References

6 Henry David Thoreau and the Literature of the Environment

Defining Environmental Literature The Alteration of Landscapes The Professionalization of Science The Collaborative Origins of Environmental Literature Movement Toward an Environmental Ethic Reconciling Science and Higher Law Acknowledgment References Further Reading

7 Herman Melville and the Antebellum Reading Public

Shocking the “Tribe of Common Readers” The Typee Publicity Campaign Critical Allies and Enemies The Reception of Moby‐Dick Melville’s Magazine Audience References Further Reading

8 Women Writers at Midcentury

The Past in the Present: Novels, Nostalgia, and Nationalism “Domestic Tale[s] of the Present Time” Time Future: Print Culture and Commodity Speculation The Future Is Now References Further Reading

9 Popular Poetry and the Rise of Anthologies

Earliest Anthologies: Establishing an American Literary Identity Commercially Viable Anthologies and Gender Segregation Literary Nationalism and Household Anthologies Canon Revision at the End of the Century References

10 Walt Whitman and the New York Literary World

References Further Reading

11 Emily Dickinson and the Tradition of Women Poets

Gender, Publication, and Reception “When I put them in the Gown”: Formal Experimentation “The Ethiop within”: Race, Abolition, and the Civil War Conclusion References Further Reading

12 The Literature of Antebellum Reform

References Further Reading

13 Sex, the Body, and Health Reform

Cobwebs for Protection and Bulwarks against Love: Patterns in Health and Sexual Reform “Circumstance” Manly Love and Its Discontents References

14 Proslavery and Antislavery Literature

Antislavery Texts before Uncle Tom Proslavery Writings Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Literary Studies Legacies Proslavery Fiction after Uncle Tom’s Cabin Conclusion References Further Reading

15 Gender and the Construction of Antebellum Slave Narratives

References Further Reading

16 Antebellum Oratory

Henry Clay Daniel Webster The Abolitionists Southern Eloquence Abraham Lincoln References Further Reading

17 Literature and the Civil War

The Landscape of the War The Suffering Body The Bloody Chasm Behind the Scenes References Further Reading

18 Disability and Literature

Antebellum Conversations Postbellum Conversations References Further Reading

19 The Development of Print Culture, 1865–1914

The Business of Literature: Professionalization and Commercialization of the Arts Novels, Serialization, and Periodical Culture The Democratization of Publishing: The Colored American Magazine and Pulp Fiction Mass Culture, “Hack” Writing, and Genre Fiction Conclusion References Further Reading

20 Local Color and the Rise of Regionalism

The West and Midwest The South New England Conclusion References

21 Poetry, Periodicals, and the Marketplace

References Further Reading

22 Realism from William Dean Howells to Edith Wharton

William Dean Howells Edith Wharton References Further Reading

23 Mark Twain and the Idea of American Identity

References

24 Henry James at Home and Abroad

References Further Reading

25 Naturalism

Naturalism and Its Critics Frank Norris Theodore Dreiser Stephen Crane Jack London References Further Reading

26 Social Protest Fiction

References Further Reading

27 The Immigrant Experience

References Further Reading

28 Double Consciousness

Double Consciousness at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Of Du Boisian Double Consciousness Voicing Black Women’s Double Consciousness Acknowledgment References Further Reading

29 Native American Voices

References

30 Latina/o Voices

References Further Reading

31 The Emergence of an American Drama, 1820–1914

Patriots and Playwrights of the Early Republic History and Romance in the Jacksonian Era Melodrama and Minstrelsy Social Satire Local Heroes Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconciliation Staging the West Quest for Realism Approaching Modernism The American Musical Staging a Transnational and Intercultural America References Further Reading

Index

Volume III

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Editors Notes on Contributors to Volume III General Introduction

Volume I: Origins to 1820 Volume II: 1820–1914 Volume III: 1914 to the Present Arrangement and Contents Acknowledgments

Introduction to Volume III

Reference

Chronology: 1914 to the Present 1 Magazines, Little and Large

Backgrounds of Print Culture Comparing Camera Work and the Saturday Evening Post A Range of Little Magazines Conclusions: A Culture of Magazines References Further Reading

2 Regional Literary Expressions

Comparative Regionalisms The Revolt of the Provinces: the Midwestern Grotesque Regionalisms of the Migratory West: Steinbeck and Stegner O’Connor’s South: Temporal Disruption and Spatial Displacement Hurston’s Atlantic World and the Uncertain Sphere of Regional Diversity References Further Reading

3 The Literature of the US South

The Early Modern Writers of the US South and the Writers Who Inspired Them References Further Reading

4 American Literature and the Academy

Parochial Nationalism (1915–1945) Imperialistic Expansion (1945–1966) Revolutionary Self‐Critique (1966–1989) Robust Ecumenism and Diminished Solemnity (1989–Present) References Further Reading

5 The Literature of World War I

References Further Reading

6 The Course of Modern American Poetry

Basic Frameworks from Which to Appreciate Modernist Poetry Pound’s Imagism Williams and Loy: The Transformation ofImagist Ideals from Within Eliot’s Impersonality and New Versions of Subjectivity Stevens and Moore: Presentation as Act of Mind Exploring the Possibilities of a Political Poetry: The 1930s Postmodernisms in American Poetry References Further Reading

7 Modernism and the American Novel

The Experimentalists: Hemingway, Hammett, Dos Passos, Stein Finding the New in the Traditional: Wharton, Cather, Fitzgerald, Faulkner References Further Reading

8 The Little Theater Movement

Plays of the Little Theater Movement Realistic Little Theater Plays Experimental Little Theater Plays Conclusion References Further Reading

9 The Lost Generation and American Expatriatism

Crises of Representation Perfectly Franc: Gertrude Stein and the Exchange Crisis Finding the Lost Generation’s Future References Further Reading

10 The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro

References Further Reading

11 Proletarian Literature

References Further Reading

12 Realism in American Drama

References Further Reading

13 Nature Writing and the New Environmentalism

Political, Personal, Poetic: Early Twentieth‐Century Nature Writing From Conservation to Environmentalism to Eco‐Sabotage The Academy Discovers Nature Writing The Future of American Nature Writing References Further Reading

14 The Literature and Film of World War II

References Further Reading

15 The Beat Minds of Their Generation

Kerouac: The Great Rememberer Ginsberg: Angelheaded Hipster Burroughs: The Cut‐Up Ferlinghetti: Literary Entrepreneur Waldman: Beat Outrider Corso: Captain Poetry Di Prima: Protean Spirit Snyder: Zen Ecology Others in the Beat Circle References Further Reading

16 The Black Arts Movement and the Racial Divide

References Further Reading

17 Literary Self‐Fashioning in the Pharmacological Age

References Further Reading

18 New Frontiers in Postmodern Theater

The Postmodern Condition of Drama and Theater Survey of Secondary Studies The Theater of Transformation as a Model of Postmodern Drama Edward Albee: From the Absurd to the Postmodern Megan Terry and Rochelle Owens: Feminism on the Postmodern Stage Suzan‐Lori Parks: Postmodern Transformations of History as Play After Postmodern Theater, What Next? References Further Reading

19 Poetry at the End of the Millennium

References Further Reading

20 The Literature and Film of the Vietnam War

References Further Reading

21 Gay and Lesbian Literature

Homosexual Modernity Privacy, Publicity, and Politics at Midcentury (1945–1965) Liberation, Commerce, and Diversity References Further Reading

22 American Literature in Languages Other than English

The Ethnic Press Travelers and Exiles Spanish Yiddish Chinese Literature French Hebrew German Und So Weiter References Further Reading

23 Jewish American Literary Forms

The Immigrant Experience Post‐World War II Writers Literary Responses to the Holocaust The New Wave of Jewish American Writing in the Twenty‐first Century References Further Reading

24 Native American Literary Forms

Native Literatures: Yet Another Introduction Native Autobiography: “The Story of a Life … and of a People’s Dream” Native Fiction: “You Can Go Home Again”? Native Poetry: Of Dream Wheels, Eagles, and Iowa City Bars A Coda of Sorts References Further Reading

25 Asian American Literary Forms

References Further Reading

26 Latina/o Literary Forms

Magical Realism Immigrant Narrative Short Fiction Memoir/Autobiography/Personal Essay Historical and Political Fiction Poetry Drama Narrative of Crisis Testimonio Current and Future Directions References Further Reading

27 African American Fiction After Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Civic Experiments, 1945–1968 Stylish Citizens, 1969–1993 Acceptable Blackness, 1994– References Further Reading

28 Creative Nonfictions

Nonfiction Is Reflection Remembering, Re‐seeing, Reinscribing Nonfiction Is Non‐Fiction Non‐Naming Nonfiction Was: Pre‐American Foundations New World Nonfiction Nonfiction Does Non‐Fiction, Non‐Poetry Nonfiction Is Refraction References Further Reading

29 The Rise and Nature of the Graphic Novel

References Further Reading

30 The Digital Revolution and the Future of American Reading

A Potted History of Digital Reading The Content versus Container Debate The Cognitive Side of Reading The Aesthetic and Sensory Sides of Reading The Pragmatic Side of Reading Reinventing Reading and Reading Spaces Putting the Digital Revolution and Reading in Context Reading in a “Both/And” World References Further Reading

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