A Companion to American Literary Studies
Herausgegeben von Levander, Caroline F.; Levine, Robert S.
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A Companion to American Literary Studies addresses the most provocative questions, subjects, and issues animating the field. Essays provide readers with the knowledge and conceptual tools for understanding American literary studies as it is practiced today, and chart new directions for the future of the subject. Offers up-to-date accounts of major new critical approaches to American literary studies Presents state-of-the-art essays on a full range of topics central to the field Essays explore critical and institutional genealogies of the field, increasingly diverse conceptions of American…mehr
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A Companion to American Literary Studies addresses the most provocative questions, subjects, and issues animating the field. Essays provide readers with the knowledge and conceptual tools for understanding American literary studies as it is practiced today, and chart new directions for the future of the subject.
Offers up-to-date accounts of major new critical approaches to American literary studies
Presents state-of-the-art essays on a full range of topics central to the field
Essays explore critical and institutional genealogies of the field, increasingly diverse conceptions of American literary study, and unprecedented material changes such as the digital revolution
A unique anthology in the field, and an essential resource for libraries, faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates
Offers up-to-date accounts of major new critical approaches to American literary studies
Presents state-of-the-art essays on a full range of topics central to the field
Essays explore critical and institutional genealogies of the field, increasingly diverse conceptions of American literary study, and unprecedented material changes such as the digital revolution
A unique anthology in the field, and an essential resource for libraries, faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- 1. Auflage
- Seitenzahl: 592
- Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 244mm x 173mm x 25mm
- Gewicht: 1089g
- ISBN-13: 9781119062516
- ISBN-10: 1119062519
- Artikelnr.: 42106701
- Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- 1. Auflage
- Seitenzahl: 592
- Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2015
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 244mm x 173mm x 25mm
- Gewicht: 1089g
- ISBN-13: 9781119062516
- ISBN-10: 1119062519
- Artikelnr.: 42106701
Caroline F. Levander is Carlson Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English, and Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Digital Education at Rice University, USA. She is author of Hotel Life (with Matt Guterl, 2015), Where Is American Literature? (2013), Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Culture and Literature (1998) and Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W.E.B. Du Bois (2006); she is co-editor of The American Child: A Culture Studies Reader (2003), Hemispheric American Studies (2008), and Teaching and Studying the Americas (2010). Robert S. Levine is Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Maryland, USA. He is the author of Conspiracy and Romance (1989), Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity (1997), Dislocating Race and Nation (2008), and The Lives of Frederick Douglass (forthcoming); he is also the editor of a number of volumes, including Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader (2003), The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 1820-1865 (2007, 2012), and Hemispheric American Studies (with Caroline F. Levander, 2008).
Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 Caroline F. Levander and Robert S.
Levine Part I. Forms 13 1 Poetry, Prose, and the Politics of Literary Form
15 Russ Castronovo 2 The Critical Work of American Literature 29 Joel
Pfister 3 Women's Worlds in the Nineteenth-Century US Novel 46 Shirley
Samuels 4 The Secularization Narrative and Nineteenth-Century American
Literature 61 Elizabeth Fenton 5 Literatures of Technology, Technologies of
Literature 77 Paul Gilmore 6 Excluded Middles: Social Inequality in
American Literature 93 Gavin Jones 7 Narrative Medicine, Biocultures, and
the Visualization of Health and Disease 108 Kirsten Ostherr 8 Performance
Anxieties: The A-Literary Companions of American Literary Studies 125
Catherine Gunther Kodat 9 Drama, Theatre, and Performance before O'Neill
141 Jeffrey H. Richards 10 Disliking It: American Poetry and American
Literary Studies 158 Mary Loeffelholz 11 After the New Americanists: The
Progress of Romance and the Romance of Progress in American Literary
Studies 173 Jennifer L. Fleissner 12 Mass Media and Literary Culture at the
Turn of the Twentieth Century 191 Nancy Bentley Part II. Spaces 209 13
Cabeza de Vaca, Lope de Oviedo, and Americas Exceptionalism 211 Anna
Brickhouse 14 Worlding America: The Hemispheric Text-Network 228 Susan
Gillman and Kirsten Silva Gruesz 15 Worlds of Color, Gender, Sexuality, and
Labor in Early American Literary History 248 Michelle Stephens 16
Transatlantic Returns 264 Elisa Tamarkin 17 American Literature in
Transnational Perspective: The Case of Mark Twain 279 Shelley Fisher
Fishkin 18 Southern Literary Studies 294 John T. Matthews 19 New
Regionalisms: US-Caribbean Literary Relations 310 Sean X. Goudie 20
American Literature as Ecosystem: The Examples of Euclides da Cunha and
Cormac McCarthy 325 George B. Handley 21 Settler States of Feeling:
National Belonging and the Erasure of Native American Presence 342 Mark
Rifkin 22 Tribal Nations and the Other Territories of American Indian
Literary History 356 James H. Cox 23 Globalization 373 Paul Giles Part III.
Practices 387 24 Democratic Cultures and the First Century of US Literature
389 Dana D. Nelson 25 American Literature and Law 406 Brook Thomas 26
Sexuality and American Literary Studies 422 Christopher Looby 27 Exquisite
Fragility: Human Being in the Aftermath of War 437 Priscilla Wald 28 The
Posthuman Turn: Rewriting Species in Recent American Literature 454 Ursula
K. Heise 29 Narrative and Intellectual Disability 469 Michael Bérubé 30
Reading for Asian American Literature 483 Colleen Lye 31 Untangling
Genealogy's Tangled Skeins: Alexander Crummell, James McCune Smith, and
Nineteenth-Century Black Literary Traditions 500 Carla L. Peterson 32
Speculative Realism and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary American
Fiction 517 Ramón Saldívar 33 The New Life of the New Forms: American
Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities 532 Matt Cohen Index 549
Levine Part I. Forms 13 1 Poetry, Prose, and the Politics of Literary Form
15 Russ Castronovo 2 The Critical Work of American Literature 29 Joel
Pfister 3 Women's Worlds in the Nineteenth-Century US Novel 46 Shirley
Samuels 4 The Secularization Narrative and Nineteenth-Century American
Literature 61 Elizabeth Fenton 5 Literatures of Technology, Technologies of
Literature 77 Paul Gilmore 6 Excluded Middles: Social Inequality in
American Literature 93 Gavin Jones 7 Narrative Medicine, Biocultures, and
the Visualization of Health and Disease 108 Kirsten Ostherr 8 Performance
Anxieties: The A-Literary Companions of American Literary Studies 125
Catherine Gunther Kodat 9 Drama, Theatre, and Performance before O'Neill
141 Jeffrey H. Richards 10 Disliking It: American Poetry and American
Literary Studies 158 Mary Loeffelholz 11 After the New Americanists: The
Progress of Romance and the Romance of Progress in American Literary
Studies 173 Jennifer L. Fleissner 12 Mass Media and Literary Culture at the
Turn of the Twentieth Century 191 Nancy Bentley Part II. Spaces 209 13
Cabeza de Vaca, Lope de Oviedo, and Americas Exceptionalism 211 Anna
Brickhouse 14 Worlding America: The Hemispheric Text-Network 228 Susan
Gillman and Kirsten Silva Gruesz 15 Worlds of Color, Gender, Sexuality, and
Labor in Early American Literary History 248 Michelle Stephens 16
Transatlantic Returns 264 Elisa Tamarkin 17 American Literature in
Transnational Perspective: The Case of Mark Twain 279 Shelley Fisher
Fishkin 18 Southern Literary Studies 294 John T. Matthews 19 New
Regionalisms: US-Caribbean Literary Relations 310 Sean X. Goudie 20
American Literature as Ecosystem: The Examples of Euclides da Cunha and
Cormac McCarthy 325 George B. Handley 21 Settler States of Feeling:
National Belonging and the Erasure of Native American Presence 342 Mark
Rifkin 22 Tribal Nations and the Other Territories of American Indian
Literary History 356 James H. Cox 23 Globalization 373 Paul Giles Part III.
Practices 387 24 Democratic Cultures and the First Century of US Literature
389 Dana D. Nelson 25 American Literature and Law 406 Brook Thomas 26
Sexuality and American Literary Studies 422 Christopher Looby 27 Exquisite
Fragility: Human Being in the Aftermath of War 437 Priscilla Wald 28 The
Posthuman Turn: Rewriting Species in Recent American Literature 454 Ursula
K. Heise 29 Narrative and Intellectual Disability 469 Michael Bérubé 30
Reading for Asian American Literature 483 Colleen Lye 31 Untangling
Genealogy's Tangled Skeins: Alexander Crummell, James McCune Smith, and
Nineteenth-Century Black Literary Traditions 500 Carla L. Peterson 32
Speculative Realism and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary American
Fiction 517 Ramón Saldívar 33 The New Life of the New Forms: American
Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities 532 Matt Cohen Index 549
Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 Caroline F. Levander and Robert S.
Levine Part I. Forms 13 1 Poetry, Prose, and the Politics of Literary Form
15 Russ Castronovo 2 The Critical Work of American Literature 29 Joel
Pfister 3 Women's Worlds in the Nineteenth-Century US Novel 46 Shirley
Samuels 4 The Secularization Narrative and Nineteenth-Century American
Literature 61 Elizabeth Fenton 5 Literatures of Technology, Technologies of
Literature 77 Paul Gilmore 6 Excluded Middles: Social Inequality in
American Literature 93 Gavin Jones 7 Narrative Medicine, Biocultures, and
the Visualization of Health and Disease 108 Kirsten Ostherr 8 Performance
Anxieties: The A-Literary Companions of American Literary Studies 125
Catherine Gunther Kodat 9 Drama, Theatre, and Performance before O'Neill
141 Jeffrey H. Richards 10 Disliking It: American Poetry and American
Literary Studies 158 Mary Loeffelholz 11 After the New Americanists: The
Progress of Romance and the Romance of Progress in American Literary
Studies 173 Jennifer L. Fleissner 12 Mass Media and Literary Culture at the
Turn of the Twentieth Century 191 Nancy Bentley Part II. Spaces 209 13
Cabeza de Vaca, Lope de Oviedo, and Americas Exceptionalism 211 Anna
Brickhouse 14 Worlding America: The Hemispheric Text-Network 228 Susan
Gillman and Kirsten Silva Gruesz 15 Worlds of Color, Gender, Sexuality, and
Labor in Early American Literary History 248 Michelle Stephens 16
Transatlantic Returns 264 Elisa Tamarkin 17 American Literature in
Transnational Perspective: The Case of Mark Twain 279 Shelley Fisher
Fishkin 18 Southern Literary Studies 294 John T. Matthews 19 New
Regionalisms: US-Caribbean Literary Relations 310 Sean X. Goudie 20
American Literature as Ecosystem: The Examples of Euclides da Cunha and
Cormac McCarthy 325 George B. Handley 21 Settler States of Feeling:
National Belonging and the Erasure of Native American Presence 342 Mark
Rifkin 22 Tribal Nations and the Other Territories of American Indian
Literary History 356 James H. Cox 23 Globalization 373 Paul Giles Part III.
Practices 387 24 Democratic Cultures and the First Century of US Literature
389 Dana D. Nelson 25 American Literature and Law 406 Brook Thomas 26
Sexuality and American Literary Studies 422 Christopher Looby 27 Exquisite
Fragility: Human Being in the Aftermath of War 437 Priscilla Wald 28 The
Posthuman Turn: Rewriting Species in Recent American Literature 454 Ursula
K. Heise 29 Narrative and Intellectual Disability 469 Michael Bérubé 30
Reading for Asian American Literature 483 Colleen Lye 31 Untangling
Genealogy's Tangled Skeins: Alexander Crummell, James McCune Smith, and
Nineteenth-Century Black Literary Traditions 500 Carla L. Peterson 32
Speculative Realism and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary American
Fiction 517 Ramón Saldívar 33 The New Life of the New Forms: American
Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities 532 Matt Cohen Index 549
Levine Part I. Forms 13 1 Poetry, Prose, and the Politics of Literary Form
15 Russ Castronovo 2 The Critical Work of American Literature 29 Joel
Pfister 3 Women's Worlds in the Nineteenth-Century US Novel 46 Shirley
Samuels 4 The Secularization Narrative and Nineteenth-Century American
Literature 61 Elizabeth Fenton 5 Literatures of Technology, Technologies of
Literature 77 Paul Gilmore 6 Excluded Middles: Social Inequality in
American Literature 93 Gavin Jones 7 Narrative Medicine, Biocultures, and
the Visualization of Health and Disease 108 Kirsten Ostherr 8 Performance
Anxieties: The A-Literary Companions of American Literary Studies 125
Catherine Gunther Kodat 9 Drama, Theatre, and Performance before O'Neill
141 Jeffrey H. Richards 10 Disliking It: American Poetry and American
Literary Studies 158 Mary Loeffelholz 11 After the New Americanists: The
Progress of Romance and the Romance of Progress in American Literary
Studies 173 Jennifer L. Fleissner 12 Mass Media and Literary Culture at the
Turn of the Twentieth Century 191 Nancy Bentley Part II. Spaces 209 13
Cabeza de Vaca, Lope de Oviedo, and Americas Exceptionalism 211 Anna
Brickhouse 14 Worlding America: The Hemispheric Text-Network 228 Susan
Gillman and Kirsten Silva Gruesz 15 Worlds of Color, Gender, Sexuality, and
Labor in Early American Literary History 248 Michelle Stephens 16
Transatlantic Returns 264 Elisa Tamarkin 17 American Literature in
Transnational Perspective: The Case of Mark Twain 279 Shelley Fisher
Fishkin 18 Southern Literary Studies 294 John T. Matthews 19 New
Regionalisms: US-Caribbean Literary Relations 310 Sean X. Goudie 20
American Literature as Ecosystem: The Examples of Euclides da Cunha and
Cormac McCarthy 325 George B. Handley 21 Settler States of Feeling:
National Belonging and the Erasure of Native American Presence 342 Mark
Rifkin 22 Tribal Nations and the Other Territories of American Indian
Literary History 356 James H. Cox 23 Globalization 373 Paul Giles Part III.
Practices 387 24 Democratic Cultures and the First Century of US Literature
389 Dana D. Nelson 25 American Literature and Law 406 Brook Thomas 26
Sexuality and American Literary Studies 422 Christopher Looby 27 Exquisite
Fragility: Human Being in the Aftermath of War 437 Priscilla Wald 28 The
Posthuman Turn: Rewriting Species in Recent American Literature 454 Ursula
K. Heise 29 Narrative and Intellectual Disability 469 Michael Bérubé 30
Reading for Asian American Literature 483 Colleen Lye 31 Untangling
Genealogy's Tangled Skeins: Alexander Crummell, James McCune Smith, and
Nineteenth-Century Black Literary Traditions 500 Carla L. Peterson 32
Speculative Realism and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary American
Fiction 517 Ramón Saldívar 33 The New Life of the New Forms: American
Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities 532 Matt Cohen Index 549