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A Companion to American Literature
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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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781119653349 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 04/02/2020 |
Series: | Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture |
Sold by: | JOHN WILEY & SONS |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 1864 |
File size: | 3 MB |
About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
Volume I: Origins-1820Full 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 1820-19141. The Transformation of Literary Production, 1820-1865
Susan Belasco 2. Travel Writing
Susan L. Roberson3. The Historical Romance
Monika M. Elbert and Leland S. Person4. The Gothic Tale
Gerald Kennedy 5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Transcendentalism
Phyllis Cole6. Henry David Thoreau and the Literature of the Environment
Rochelle L. Johnson7. Herman Melville and the Antebellum Reading Public
David O. Dowling8. Women Writers at Midcentury
Nicole Tonkovich9. Popular Poetry and the Rise of Anthologies
Amanda Gailey10. Walt Whitman and the New York Literary World
Edward Whitley11. Emily Dickinson and the Tradition of Women Poets
Elizabeth A. Petrino12. The Literature of Antebellum Reform
Linck Johnson 13. Sex, the Body, and Health Reform
David Greven14. Proslavery and Antislavery Literature
Susan M. Ryan15. Gender and the Construction of Antebellum Slave Narratives
Philathia Bolton and Venetria Patton 16. Antebellum Oratory
John C. Briggs17. Literature and the Civil War
Shirley Samuels18. Disability and Literature
Mary Klages19. The Development of Print Culture, 1865-1914
William Hardwig20. Local Color and the Rise of Regionalism
Anne Boyd Rioux21. Poetry, Periodicals, and the Marketplace
Nadia Nurhussein22. Realism from William Dean Howells to Edith Wharton
Alfred Bendixen23. Mark Twain and the Idea of American Identity
Andrew Levy24. Henry James at Home and Abroad
John Carlos Rowe25. Naturalism
Donna Campbell26. Social Protest Fiction
Alicia Mischa Renfroe27. The Immigrant Experience
James Nagel28. Double Consciousness: African American Writers at the Turn of the Century
Shirley Moody-Turner29. Native American Voices
Cari Carpenter30. Latina/o Voices
Jesse Alemán31. 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-Present1. Magazines, Little and Large: American Print Culture in the Early Twentieth Century
Jayne E. Marek2. Regional Literary Expressions
Philip Joseph3. The Literature of the U.S. South: Modernism and Beyond
John Wharton Lowe4. American Literature and the Academy
Eric Bennett5. The Literature of World War I
Hazel Hutchison6. The Course of Modern American Poetry
Charles Altieri7. Modernism and the American Novel
Linda Wagner-Martin8. The Little Theatre Movement
DeAnna M. Toten Beard9. The Lost Generation and American Expatriatism
Michael Soto10. The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro
Maureen Honey11. Proletarian Literature
Barbara Foley12. Realism in American Drama
Brenda Murphy13. Nature Writing and the New Environmentalism
Karla Armbruster14. The Literature and Film of World War II
Philip Beidler15. The Beat Minds of Their Generation
David Sterritt16. The Black Arts Movement and the Racial Divide
Amy Abugo Ongiri17. Literary Self-Fashioning in the Pharmacological Age: Confessional Poetry
Michael Thurston18. New Frontiers in Postmodern Theater
Kerstin Schmidt19. Poetry at the End of the Millennium
John Lowney20. The Literature and Film of the Vietnam War
Mark A. Heberle21. Gay and Lesbian Literature
Guy Davidson22. American Literature in Languages Other than English
Steven G. Kellman23. Jewish American Literary Forms
Victoria Aarons24. Native American Literary Forms
Thomas C. Gannon25. Asian American Literary Forms
Una Chung26. Latina/o Literary Forms
Marta Caminero-Santangelo27. African American Fiction After Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Michael Hill28. Creative Nonfictions
Barrie Jean Borich29. The Rise and Nature of the Graphic Novel
Stephen E. Tabachnick30. The Digital Revolution and the Future of American Reading
Naomi S. Baron
Index to Volume III
Consolidated Index