A Companion to American Literature (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Belasco, Susan; Soto, Michael; Johnson, Linck; Gaul, Theresa Strouth

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive, chronological overview of American literature in three scholarly and authoritative volumes A Companion to American Literature traces the history and development of American literature from its early origins in Native American oral tradition to 21st century digital literature. This comprehensive three-volume set brings together contributions from a diverse international team of accomplished young scholars and established figures in the field. Contributors explore a broad range of topics in historical, cultural, political, geographic, and technological contexts, engaging the work of both well-known and non-canonical writers of every period. Volume One is an inclusive and geographically expansive examination of early American literature, applying a range of cultural and historical approaches and theoretical models to a dramatically expanded canon of texts. Volume Two covers American literature between 1820 and 1914, focusing on the development of print culture and the literary marketplace, the emergence of various literary movements, and the impact of social and historical events on writers and writings of the period. Spanning the 20th and early 21st centuries, Volume Three studies traditional areas of American literature as well as the literature from previously marginalized groups and contemporary writers often overlooked by scholars. This inclusive and comprehensive study of American literature: * Examines the influences of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and disability on American literature * Discusses the role of technology in book production and circulation, the rise of literacy, and changing reading practices and literary forms * Explores a wide range of writings in multiple genres, including novels, short stories, dramas, and a variety of poetic forms, as well as autobiographies, essays, lectures, diaries, journals, letters, sermons, histories, and graphic narratives. * Provides a thematic index that groups chapters by contexts and illustrates their links across different traditional chronological boundaries A Companion to American Literature is a valuable resource for students coming to the subject for the first time or preparing for field examinations, instructors in American literature courses, and scholars with more specialized interests in specific authors, genres, movements, or periods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Seitenzahl: 1864
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119653356
• Artikelnr.: 59167537

Autorenporträt

Susan Belasco is Professor Emerita and former Chair of the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. Theresa Strouth Gaul is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas. Linck Johnson is the Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. Michael Soto is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of English at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.

Inhaltsangabe

Volume I: Origins-1820
Full Table of Contents
Editors
Notes on Contributors to Volume I
General Introduction
Susan Belasco
Introduction to Volume I
Theresa Strouth Gaul
Chronology Origins-1820
1. The Storyteller's Universe: Indigenous Oral Literatures
Kenneth M. Roemer
2. Cross-Cultural Encounters in Early American Literatures: From
Incommensurability to Exchange
Kelly Wisecup
3. Settlement Literatures Before and Beyond the Stories of Nations
Tamara Harvey
4. The Puritan Culture of Letters
Abram Van Engen
5. Writing the Salem Witch Trials
Peter J. Grund
6. Captivity:  From Babylon to Indian Country
Andrew Newman
7. Africans in Early America
Cassander L. Smith
8. Migration, Exile, Imperialism: The Non-English Literatures of Early
America Reconsidered
Patrick M. Erben
9. Environment and Environmentalism
Timothy Sweet
10. Acknowledging Early American Poetry
Christopher N. Phillips
11. Travel Writings in Early America, 1680-1820
Susan C. Imbarrato
12. Early Native American Literacies to 1820: Systems of Meaning,
Categories of Knowledge Transmission
Hilary E. Wyss
13. The Varieties of Religious Expression in Early American Literature
Sandra M. Gustafson
14. Benjamin Franklin: Printer, Editor, and Writer
Stephen Carl Arch
15. Writing Lives: Autobiography in Early America
Jennifer A. Desiderio
16. Captivity Recast: The Captivity Narrative in the Long Eighteenth
Century
Jodi Schorb
17. Gender, Sex, and Seduction in Early American Literature
Ivy Schweitzer
18. Letters in Early American Manuscript and Print Cultures
Eve Tavor Bannet
19. Early American Evangelical Print Culture
Wendy Raphael Roberts
20. The First Black Atlantic: The Archive and Print Culture of the
Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery
John Saillant
21. Manuscripts, Manufacts, and Social Authorship
Susan Stabile
22. Cosmopolitan Correspondences: The American Republic of Letters and the
Circulation of Enlightenment Thought
Chiara Cillerai
23. Revolutionary Print Culture, 1763-1776
Philip Gould
24. Founding Documents: Writing the American into Being
Trish Loughran
25. From the Wharf to the Woods: The Development of U.S. Regional and
National Publishing Networks, 1787-1820
Phillip H. Round
26. Performance, Theatricality, and Early American Drama
Laura L. Mielke
27. Charles Brockden Brown and the Novel in the 1790s
Philip Barnard, Mark L. Kamrath and Stephen Shapiro
28. Medicine, Disability, and Early American Literature
Sari Altschuler
29. Remapping the Canonical Interregnum: Periodization, Canonization, & the
American Novel, 1800-1820
Duncan Faherty
30. Commerce, Class, and Cash:  Economics in Early American Literature
Elizabeth Hewitt
31. Haiti and the Early American Imagination
Michael J. Drexler
Index to Volume I
Volume II edited by: Linck Johnson
Volume II: 1820-1914
Editors
Notes on Contributors to Volume II
General Introduction
Susan Belasco
Introduction to Volume II
Linck Johnson
Chronology 1820-1914
1. The Transformation of Literary Production, 1820-1865 
Susan Belasco  
2. Travel Writing
Susan L. Roberson
3. The Historical Romance 
Monika M. Elbert and Leland S. Person
4. The Gothic Tale
Gerald Kennedy 
5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Transcendentalism
Phyllis Cole
6. Henry David Thoreau and the Literature of the Environment 
Rochelle L. Johnson
7. Herman Melville and the Antebellum Reading Public
David O. Dowling
8. Women Writers at Midcentury
Nicole Tonkovich
9. Popular Poetry and the Rise of Anthologies 
Amanda Gailey
10. Walt Whitman and the New York Literary World   
  Edward Whitley
11. Emily Dickinson and the Tradition of Women Poets
Elizabeth A. Petrino
12. The Literature of Antebellum Reform 
Linck Johnson  
13. Sex, the Body, and Health Reform
David Greven
14. Proslavery and Antislavery Literature
Susan M. Ryan
15. Gender and the Construction of Antebellum Slave Narratives
Philathia Bolton and Venetria Patton 
16. Antebellum Oratory
John C. Briggs
17. Literature and the Civil War
Shirley Samuels
18. Disability and Literature
Mary Klages
19. The Development of Print Culture, 1865-1914
William Hardwig
20. Local Color and the Rise of Regionalism  
Anne Boyd Rioux
21. Poetry, Periodicals, and the Marketplace 
Nadia Nurhussein
22. Realism from William Dean Howells to Edith Wharton
Alfred Bendixen
23. Mark Twain and the Idea of American Identity
Andrew Levy
24. Henry James at Home and Abroad
John Carlos Rowe
25. Naturalism
Donna Campbell
26. Social Protest Fiction
Alicia Mischa Renfroe
27. The Immigrant Experience
James Nagel
28. Double Consciousness: African American Writers at the Turn of the
Century
Shirley Moody-Turner
29. Native American Voices 
Cari Carpenter
30. Latina/o Voices
Jesse Alemán
31. The Emergence of an American Drama, 1820-1914 
Cheryl Black
Index to Volume II
Volume III: 1914-Present
Editors
Notes on Contributors to Volume III
General Introduction
Susan Belasco
Introduction to Volume III
Michael Soto
Chronology 1914-Present
1. Magazines, Little and Large: American Print Culture in the Early
Twentieth Century
Jayne E. Marek
2. Regional Literary Expressions
Philip Joseph
3. The Literature of the U.S. South: Modernism and Beyond
John Wharton Lowe
4. American Literature and the Academy
Eric Bennett
5. The Literature of World War I
Hazel Hutchison
6. The Course of Modern American Poetry
Charles Altieri
7. Modernism and the American Novel
Linda Wagner-Martin
8. The Little Theatre Movement
DeAnna M. Toten Beard
9. The Lost Generation and American Expatriatism
Michael Soto
10. The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro
Maureen Honey
11. Proletarian Literature
Barbara Foley
12. Realism in American Drama
Brenda Murphy
13. Nature Writing and the New Environmentalism
Karla Armbruster
14. The Literature and Film of World War II
Philip Beidler
15. The Beat Minds of Their Generation
David Sterritt
16. The Black Arts Movement and the Racial Divide
Amy Abugo Ongiri
17. Literary Self-Fashioning in the Pharmacological Age: Confessional
Poetry
Michael Thurston
18. New Frontiers in Postmodern Theater
Kerstin Schmidt
19. Poetry at the End of the Millennium
John Lowney
20. The Literature and Film of the Vietnam War
Mark A. Heberle
21. Gay and Lesbian Literature
Guy Davidson
22. American Literature in Languages Other than English
Steven G. Kellman
23. Jewish American Literary Forms
Victoria Aarons
24. Native American Literary Forms
Thomas C. Gannon
25. Asian American Literary Forms
Una Chung
26. Latina/o Literary Forms
Marta Caminero-Santangelo
27. African American Fiction After Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Michael Hill
28. Creative Nonfictions
Barrie Jean Borich
29. The Rise and Nature of the Graphic Novel
Stephen E. Tabachnick
30. The Digital Revolution and the Future of American Reading
Naomi S. Baron
Index to Volume III
Consolidated Index