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Angelyn Mitchell, Danille K. Taylor
The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009
The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature, first published in 2009, covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide an invaluable guide to a rich, complex tradition of women writers in conversation with each other as they critique American society and influence American letters. Accessible and vibrant, with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, this Companion will be of great interest to anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important and vital area of American literature.
Vedi indiceChronology of major works and events
Introduction Angelyn Mitchell and Danille Taylor
Part I. History, Contexts, and Criticism:
1. Early African American women's literature Frances Smith Foster and LaRose Davis
2. Women of the Harlem Renaissance Cheryl A. Wall
3. Women writers of the Black Arts Movement Eleanor W. Traylor
4. Contemporary African American women writers Dana A. Williams
5. African American feminist theories and literary criticism Robert J. Patterson
Part II. Genre, Gender and Race:
6. African American women and the United States narrative Joycelyn Moody
7. Autobiography and African American women's literature Joanne M. Braxton
8. 'Even some fiction might be useful': African American women novelists Madhu Dubey
9. African American women poets and the power of the word Keith Leonard
10. African American women in the performing arts Olga Barrios
11. African American women writers of children's and young adult literature Dianne Johnson
12. African American women essayists Marilyn Sanders Mobley
13. African American women writers and the short story Crystal J. Lucky
14. African American women writers and popular fiction: theorizing black womanhood Herman Beavers
Bibliography.
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Catherine Ross Nickerson
The Cambridge Companion to American Crime Fiction
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010
From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and challenge long-established notions of the development of the detective novel. Each chapter covers a sub-genre, from 'true crime' to hard-boiled novels, illustrating the ways in which 'popular' and 'high' literary genres influence and shape each other. With a chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion is a helpful guide for students of American literature and readers of crime fiction. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceNotes on contributors
1. Introduction Catherine Ross Nickerson
2. Early crime writing Sara Crosby
3. Poe and the origins of detective fiction Stephen Rachman
4. Women writers before 1960 Catherine Ross Nickerson
5. The hard-boiled novel Sean McCann
6. The American Roman Noir Andrew Pepper
7. Teenage detectives and teenage delinquents Ilana Nash
8. The American spy novel David Seed
9. Police procedurals in literature and on television Eddy Von Mueller
10. Mafia stories and the US gangster Fred L. Gardaphe
11. True crime Laura Browder
12. Race and American crime fiction Maureen T. Reddy
13. Feminist crime fiction Margaret Kinsman
14. Crime and post-modern fiction Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
American crime fiction: a chronology
Guide to reading
Index.
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John N. Duvall
The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945
Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2011
Each generation revises literary history and this is nowhere more evident than in the post-Second World War period. This 2011 Companion offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the diversity of American fiction since the Second World War. Essays by nineteen distinguished scholars provide critical insights into the significant genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors during a period of enormous American global political and cultural power. This power is overshadowed, nevertheless, by national anxieties growing out of events ranging from the Civil Rights Movement to the rise of feminism; from the Cold War and its fear of Communism and nuclear warfare to the Age of Terror and its different yet related fears of the 'Other'. American fiction since 1945 has faithfully chronicled these anxieties. An essential reference guide, this Companion provides a chronology of the period, as well as guides to further reading. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indicePart I: Poetics and Genres
1.1 Postmodern metafiction
1.2 Contemporary realism
1.3 New journalism and the nonfiction novel
1.4 Science fiction
1.5 The short story
Part II: Historical and Cultural Contexts
2.1 African American fiction
2.2 American Indian fiction
2.3 Multiethnicities: Latino/a and Asian American fiction2.4
2.4 American Jewish fiction
2.5 Feminist fiction
2.6 Southern fiction
2.7 Fiction and the Cold War
2.8 Fiction and 9/11
2.9 Part III Major Authors
2.10 Ralph Ellison
2.11 Flannery O’Connor
2.12 Thomas Pynchon
2.13 Toni Morrison
2.14 Don DeLillo
Conclusion: Whither American fiction?
Index
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Walter Kalaidjian
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of American literary modernism from 1890 to 1939. These original essays by twelve distinguished scholars of international reputation offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of Modern American literature and cultural studies. Among the diverse topics covered are nationalism, race, gender and the impact of music and visual arts on literary modernism, as well as overviews of the achievements of American modernism in fiction, poetry and drama. The book concludes with a chapter on modern American criticism. An essential reference guide to the field, the Companion offers readers a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States, and a bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceChronology
Introduction Walter Kalaidjian
1. Nationalism and the modern American canon Mark Morrisson
Part I. Genre:
2. Modern American fiction Rita Barnard
3. Modern American poetry Cary Nelson
4. Modern American drama Stephen Watt
Part II. Culture:
5. American modernism and the New Negro Renaissance Mark Sanders
6. Jazz and American modernism Jed Rasula
7. Visual culture Michael North
8. The avant-garde phase of American modernism Marjorie Perloff
Part III. Society:
9. Gender and sexuality Janet Lyon
10. Regionalism and American modernism John Duvall
11. Social representations of American modernism Paula Rabinowitz
12. Modern American literary criticism Douglas Mao
Guide to further reading
Index.
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Donald Pizer
The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism : From Howells to London
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995
This Companion examines a number of issues related to the terms realism and naturalism. The introduction seeks both to discuss the problems in the use of these two terms in relation to late nineteenth-century fiction and to describe the history of previous efforts to make the terms expressive of American writing of this period. The Companion includes ten essays which fall into four categories: essays on the historical context of realism and naturalism by Louis Budd and Richard Lehan; essays on critical approaches to the movements since the early 1970s by Michael Anesko, essays on the efforts to expand the canon of realism and naturalism by Elizabeth Ammons; and a full-scale discussion of ten major texts, from W. D. Howell's The Rise of Silas Lapham to Jack London's The Call of the Wild, by John W. Crowley, Tom Quirk, J. C. Levenson, Blanche Gelfant, Barbara Hochman, and Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceList of contributors
Introduction
The problem of definition Donald Pizer
Part I. Historical Contents:
1. The American background Louis J. Budd
2. The European background Richard Lehan
Part II. Contemporary Critical Issues:
3. Recent critical approaches Michael Anesko
4. Expanding the canon of American realism Elizabeth Ammons
Part III. Case Studies:
5. The Portrait of a Lady and The Rise of Silas Lapham: the company they kept John W. Crowley
6. The realism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Quirk
7. The Red Badge of Courage and McTeague: passage to modernity J. C. Levenson
8. What more can Carrie want? Naturalistic ways of consuming women Blanche Gelfant
9. The Awakening and The House of Mirth: plotting experience and experiencing plot Barbara Hochman
10. The Jungle and The Call of the Wild: London's and Sinclair's animal and human jungles Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin
11. Troubled black humanity in The Souls of Black Folk and The Autobiography of an Ex-coloured Man Kenneth W. Warren
Further reading
Index.
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Brenda Murphy
The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999
This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each chapter introduces the reader to the work of one or more playwrights and to a way of thinking about plays. Together they cover significant writers such as Rachel Crothers, Susan Glaspell, Lillian Hellman, Sophie Treadwell, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Megan Terry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Wendy Wasserstein, Marsha Norman, Beth Henley and Maria Irene Fornes. Playwrights are discussed in the context of topics such as early comedy and melodrama, feminism and realism, the Harlem Renaissance, the feminist resurgence of the 1970s and feminist dramatic theory. A detailed chronology and illustrations enhance the volume, which also includes bibliographical essays on recent criticism and on African-American women playwrights before 1930. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceList of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface
Chronology Stephanie Roach
Part I. Pioneers:
1. Comedies by early American women Amelia Howe Kritzer
2. Women writing melodrama Sarah J. Blackstone
3. Realism and feminism in the Progressive era Patricia R. Schroeder
Part II. Inheritors:
4. Susan Glaspell and Modernism Veronica Makowsky
5. The Expressionist movement: Sophie Treadwell Jerry Dickey
6. Feminism and the marketplace: the career of Rachel Crothers Brenda Murphy
7. The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro movement Judith L. Stephens
8. Lillian Hellman: feminism, formalism, and politics Thomas P. Adler
9. From Harlem to Broadway: African-American women playwrights at mid-century Margaret Wilkerson
Part III. New Feminists:
10. Feminist theory and contemporary drama Janet Brown
11. Feminist theater of the 'Seventies' in the United States Helene Keyssar
12. Contemporary Playwrights/traditional forms Laurin Porter
13. Wendy Wasserstein: a feminist voice from the Seventies to the present Jan Balakian
Part IV. Further Reading:
14. Contemporary American women playwrights: a brief survey of key scholarship Christy Gavin
15. African-American women playwrights before 1930 Christine R. Gray
Works cited
Index.
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Scott Donaldson
The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indice1. Introduction: Hemingway and fame Scott Donaldson
2. Hemingway's journalism and the realist dilemma Elizabeth Dewberry
3. 1924: Hemingway's luggage and the miraculous year Paul Smith
4. In Our Time, out of season Thomas Strychacz
5. Brett and other women in The Sun Also Rises James Nagel
6. A Farewell to Arms: doctors in the house of love Michael Reynolds
7. Hemingway's late fiction: breaking new ground Robert E. Fleming
8. Hemingway and politics Keneth Kinnamon
9. Hemingway and gender history Rena Sanderson
10. Hemingway, Hadley, and Paris: the persistence of desire J. Gerald Kennedy
11. Hemingway's Spanish sensibility Allen Josephs
12. The Cuban context of The Old Man and the Sea Bickford Sylvester
13. Conclusion: the critical reputation of Ernest Hemingway Susan F. Beegel.
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Jonathan Freedman
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998
The Cambridge Companion to Henry James provides a critical introduction to James's work. Throughout the major critical shifts of the last fifty years, and despite suspicions of the traditional high literary culture which was James's milieu, he has retained a powerful hold on readers and critics alike. All essays are written at a level free from technical jargon, designed to promote accessibility to the study of James and his work. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceChronology
Introduction: the moment of Henry James Jonathan Freedman
1. Men, women, and the American way Martha Banta
2. The James' family theatricals Frances Wilson
3. Henry James: the question of our texts Philip Horne
4. Henry James and the invention of novel theory Dorothy Hale
5. Henry James and the idea of evil Robert Weisbuch
6. Queer Henry in the cage Hugh Stevens
7. The unmentionable subject in the pupil Millicent Bell
8. Realism, culture, and the place of literary: Henry James and The Bostonians Sara Blair
9. Lambert Strether's excellent adventure Eric Haralson
10. James's elusive wings William Stowe
11. Henry James's American dream in The Golden Bowl Margery Sabin
12. Affirming the alien: the pragmatist pluralism of the American scene Ross Posnock.
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Robert S. Levine
The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998
The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville is intended to provide a critical introduction to Melville's work. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume, and provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career. All of Melville's key works, including Moby-Dick, Typee, White Jacket, The Tambourine in Glory and The Confidence Man, are examined, as well as most of his poetry and short fiction. Written at a level both challenging and accessible, the volume provides fresh perspectives on one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America whose work continues to fascinate readers and stimulate new study. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceChronology
1. Introduction Robert S. Levine
2. 'Race' in Typee and White-Jacket Samuel Otter
3. The tambourine in glory: African culture and Melville's art Sterling Stuckey
4. Moby-Dick as revolution John Bryant
5. Pierre's Domestic Ambiguities Wyn Kelley
6. 'A- !': unreadability in The Confidence Man Elizabeth Renker
7. Melville the poet Lawrence Buell
8. Melville's travelling God Jenny Franchot
9. Melville and sexuality Robert K. Martin
10. Melville, labor, and the discourses of reception Cindy Weinstein
11. 'Bewildering Intertanglement': Melville's engagement with British culture Paul Giles
12. Afterword Andrew Delbanco.
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Stacey Olster
The Cambridge Companion to John Updike
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
John Updike is one of the most prolific and important American authors of the contemporary period, with an acclaimed body of work that spans half a century and is inspired by everything from American exceptionalism to American popular culture. This Companion joins together a distinguished international team of contributors to address both the major themes in Updike's writing as well as the sources of controversy that Updike's writing has often provoked. It traces the ways in which historical and cultural changes in the second half of the twentieth century have shaped not just Updike's reassessment of America's heritage, but his reassessment of the literary devices by which that legacy is best portrayed. With a chronology and bibliography of Updike's published writings, this is the only guide students and scholars of Updike will need to understand this extraordinary writer. (tratto da Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceIntroduction: 'A sort of helplessly 50's guy' Stacey Olster
Part I. Early Influences and Recurrent Concerns:
1. Updike, middles, and the spell of 'subjective geography' D. Quentin Miller
2. 'Nakedness' or realism in Updike's early short stories Kristiaan Versluys
3. Updike, religion, and the novel of moral debate Marshall Boswell
Part II. Controversy and Difference:
4. Updike, women, and mythologized sexuality Kathleen Verduin
5. Updike, race, and the postcolonial project Jay Prosser
6. Updike, ethnicity, and Jewish-American drag Sanford Pinsker
Part III. American Chronicles:
7. Updike, American history, and historical methodology Edward Vargo
8. Updike, Hawthorne, and American literary history James Plath
9. Updike, film, and American popular culture James A. Schiff
10. John Updike, Rabbit Angstrom, and the myth of American exceptionalism Donald J. Greiner
Conclusion: U(pdike) & P(ostmodernism) John N. Duvall
Select bibliography.
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Forrest G. Robinson
The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain
Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1995
The Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain offers new and thought provoking essays on an author of enduring pre-eminence in the American canon. The book is a collaborative project, assembled by scholars who have played crucial roles in the recent explosion of Twain criticism. Accessible enough to interest both experienced specialists and students new to Twain criticism, the essays examine Twain from a wide variety of critical perspectives, and include timely reflections by major critics on the hotly debated dynamics of race and slavery perceptible throughout his writing. The volume includes a chronology of Twain's life and a list of suggestions for further reading, to provide the students or general reader with sources for background as well as additional information. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indice-List of Contributors
-Preface
-Chronology
-Mark Twain as an American Icon
LOUIS J. BUDD
-The Innocent At Large: Mark Twain's Travel Writing
FORREST G. ROBINSON
-Mark Twain and Women
SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN
-Mark Twain's Civil War: Humor's Reconstructive Writing
NEIL SCHMITZ
-Banned in Concord: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Classic American Literature
MYRA JEHLEN
-Black Critics and Mark Twain
DAVID LIONEL SMITH
-Mr. Clemens and Jim Crow: Twain, Race and Blackface
ERIC LOTT
-Speech Acts and Social Action: Mark Twain and the Politics of Literary Performance
EVAN CARTON
-How the Boss Played the Game: Twain's Critique of Imperialism in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
JOHN CARLOS ROWE
-Mark Twain's Travels in the Racial Occult: Following the Equator and the Dream Tales
SUSAN GILMAN
-Mark Twain's Theology: The Gods of a Brevet Presbyterian
STANLEY BRODWIN
-Further Reading
-Index
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Richard H. Millington
The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2004
The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 2004, offers students and teachers an introduction to Hawthorne's fiction and the lively debates that shape Hawthorne studies. In commissioned essays, twelve eminent scholars of American literature introduce readers to key issues in Hawthorne scholarship and deepen our understanding of Hawthorne's writing. Each of the major novels is treated in a separate chapter, while other essays explore Hawthorne's art in relation to a stimulating array of issues and approaches. The essays reveal how Hawthorne's work explores understandings of gender relations and sexuality, of childhood and selfhood, of politics and ethics, of history and modernity. An Introduction and a selected bibliography will help students and teachers understand how Hawthorne has been a crucial figure for each generation of readers of American literature.
Vedi indiceAcknowledgments page ix
Note on references x
List of contributors xi
Chronology of Hawthorne’s life xiv
Introduction 1
1 Hawthorne’s labors in Concord 10
2 Hawthorne as cultural theorist 35
3 Hawthorne and American masculinity 60
4 Hawthorne and the question of women 79
5 Hawthorne, modernity, and the literary sketch 99
6 Hawthorne’s American history 121
7 Hawthorne and the writing of childhood 143
8 Love and politics, sympathy and justice in The Scarlet Letter 162
9 The marvelous queer interiors of The House of the Seven Gables 186
10 Sympathy and reform in The Blithedale Romance 207
11 Perplexity, sympathy, and the question of the human: a reading of The Marble Faun 230
12 Whose Hawthorne? 251
Selected bibliography 266
Index 281
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Dale M. Bauer, Philip Gould
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001
Providing an overview of the history of writing by women in the period, this 2001 Companion establishes the context in which this writing emerged, and traces the origin of the terms which have traditionally defined the debate. It includes essays on topics of recent concern, such as women and war, erotic violence, the liberating and disciplinary effects of religion, and examines the work of a variety of women writers, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis and Louisa May Alcott. The volume plots new directions for the study of American literary history, and provides several valuable tools for students, including a chronology of works and suggestions for further reading. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceIntroduction Dale Bauer and Philip Gould
Part I. Historical and Theoretical Backgrounds:
1. The post colonial culture of early American women's writing Rosemarie Zagarri
2. Women in public Dana Nelson
3. Antebellum politics and women's writing Stephanie Smith
Part II. Genre, Tradition and Innovation:
4. Captivity and the literary imagination Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola
5. Nineteenth-century American women's poetry Elizabeth Petrino
6. Women at war Shirley Samuels
7. Women, anti-Catholicism, and narrative in nineteenth-century America Susan Griffin
8. Immigration and assimilation in nineteenth-century American women's writing Priscilla Wald
Part III. Case Studies:
9. The uses of writing in Margaret Bayard Smith's New Nation Frederika Teute
10. The sentimental novel: the example of Harriet Beecher Stowe Gail Smith
11. African-American women's spiritual narratives Yolanda Pierce
12. The post-bellum writing of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Lisa Long
13. Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons Sandra Zagarell
14. Minnie's Sacrifice: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's narrative of citizenship Jasmine Griffin
Conclusion Mary Kelley.
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Kerry Larson
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Poetry
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
This Companion is the first critical collection of its kind devoted solely to American poetry of the nineteenth century. It covers a wide variety of authors, many of whom are currently being rediscovered. A number of anthologies in the recent past have been devoted to the verse of groups such as Native Americans, African-Americans and women. This volume offers essays covering these groups as well as more familiar figures such as Dickinson, Whitman, Longfellow and Melville. The contents are divided between broad topics of concern such as the poetry of the Civil War or the development of the 'poetess' role and articles featuring specific authors such as Edgar Allan Poe or Sarah Piatt. In the past two decades a growing body of scholarship has been engaged in reconceptualizing and re-evaluating this largely neglected area of study in US literary history - this Companion reflects and advances this spirit of revisionism. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceIntroduction Kerry Larson
Part I. Mandates, Movements, and Manifestos:
1. The reception of nineteenth-century American poetry Mary Louise Kete
2. American Indian poetry in the nineteenth century Robert Dale Parker
3. The poet as poetess Virginia Jackson
4. Transcendental poetics Stephen Cushman
5. Slavery and its metrics Max Cavitch
6. Weathering the news in US Civil War poetry Eliza Richards
7. The 'twilight of the poets' in the era of American realism, 1875–1900 Elizabeth Renker
Part II. Individual Authors:
8. Longfellow's ambivalence Stephen Burt
9. Sarah Piatt's grammar of convention and the conditions of authorship Jessica Roberts
10. Poe and Southern poetry Jack Kerkering
11. The color line: James Monroe Whitfield and Albery Allson Whitman Ivy Wilson
12. Colonial violence and poetic transcendence in Whitman's 'Song of Myself' Donald Pease
13. Emily Dickinson's 'turban'd seas' Cristanne Miller
Selected guide to further reading.
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Timothy Parrish
The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
From the moment that his debut book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), won him the National Book Award, Philip Roth has been among the most influential and controversial writers of our age. Now the author of more than twenty novels, numerous stories, two memoirs, and two books of literary criticism, Roth has used his writing to continually reinvent himself and in doing so to remake the American literary landscape. This Companion provides the most comprehensive introduction to his works and thought in a collection of newly commissioned essays from distinguished scholars. Beginning with the urgency of Roth's early fiction and extending to the vitality of his most recent novels, these essays trace Roth's artistic engagement with questions about ethnic identity, postmodernism, Israel, the Holocaust, sexuality, and the human psyche itself. With its chronology and guide to further reading, this Companion will be essential for new and returning Roth readers, students and scholars. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceIntroduction: Roth at mid-career Timothy Parrish
1. American-Jewish identity in Roth's short fiction Victoria Aarons
2. Roth, literary influence, and postmodernism Derek Parker Royal
3. Zuckerman Bound: the celebrant of silence Donald M. Kartiganer
4. Roth and the Holocaust Michael Rothberg
5. Roth and Israel Emily Miller Budick
6. Roth's doubles Josh Cohen
7. Revisiting Roth's psychoanalysts Jeffrey Berman
8. Roth and gender Debra Shostak
9. Roth and ethnic identity Timothy Parrish
10. Mourning and melancholia in Roth's American Trilogy Mark Shechner
11. Roth's autobiographical writings Hana Wirth-Nesher
Selected bibliography and suggestions for further reading.
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Joel Porte, Saundra Morris
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of Nature and The Conduct of Life. The tradition of American literature and philosophy as we know it at the end of the twentieth century was largely shaped by Emerson's example and practice. This volume offers students, scholars, and the general reader a collection of fresh interpretations of Emerson's writing, milieu, influence, and cultural significance. All essays are newly commissioned for this volume, written at an accessible yet challenging level, and augmented by a comprehensive chronology and bibliography. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceIntroduction: representing America - the Emerson legacy Joel Porte
1. Transcendentalism and its times David Robinson
2. Ralph Waldo Emerson in his family Phyllis Cole
3. The Radical Emerson? Robert Milder
4. Emerson as lecturer: man thinking, man saying R. Jackson Wilson
5. Emerson and nature Robert D. Richardson Jr
6. Essays: first series (1841) Albert J. von Frank
7. Transcendental friendship Jeffrey Steele
8. Terms for Emerson: essays, Second Series Julie Ellison
9. 'The Remembering Wine': Emerson's influence on Whitman and Dickinson Catherine Tufariello
10. Post-colonial Emerson and the erasure of Europe Robert Weisbuch
11. Metre-making arguments: Emerson's poems Saundra Morris
12. The conduct of life: Emerson's anatomy of power Michael Lopez.
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Edited by Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn
The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003
Science fiction is at the intersection of numerous fields. It is a literature which draws on popular culture, and which engages in speculation about science, history, and all types of social relations. This volume brings together essays by scholars and practitioners of science fiction, which look at the genre from these different angles. After an introduction to the nature of science fiction, historical chapters trace science fiction from Thomas More to more recent years, including a chapter on film and television. The second section introduces four important critical approaches to science fiction drawing their theoretical inspiration from Marxism, postmodernism, feminism and queer theory. The final and largest section of the book looks at various themes and sub-genres of science fiction. A number of well-known science fiction writers contribute to this volume, including Gwyneth Jones, Ken MacLeod, Brian Stableford Andy Duncan, James Gunn, Joan Slonczewski, and Damien Broderick.
Vedi indiceList of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction: reading science fiction Farah Mendlesohn
Part I. The History:
1. Science fiction before the genre Brian Stableford
2. The magazine era: 1926–1960 Brian Attebery
3. New wave and backwash: 1960–1980 Damien Broderick
4. Science fiction from 1980 to the present John Clute
5. Film and television Mark Bould
6. Science fiction and its editors Gary K. Wolfe
Part II. Critical Approaches:
7. Marxist theory and science fiction Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr
8. Feminist theory and science fiction Veronica Hollinger
9. Postmodernism and science fiction Andrew M. Butler
10. Science fiction and queer theory Wendy Pearson
Part III. Sub-Genres and Themes:
11. The icons of science fiction Gwyneth Jones
12. Science fiction and the life sciences Joan Slonczewski and Michael Levy
13. Hard science fiction Kathryn Cramer
14. Space opera Gary Westfahl
15. Alternate history Andy Duncan
16. Utopias and anti-utopias Edward James
17. Politics and science fiction Ken MacLeod
18. Gender in science fiction Helen Merrick
19. Race and ethnicity in science fiction Elisabeth Anne Leonard
20. Religion and science fiction Farah Mendlesohn
Further reading
Index.
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F. Abiola Irele
The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel
Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2009
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel presents new essays covering the one hundred and fifty year history of the African American novel. Experts in the field from the US and Europe address some of the major issues in the genre: passing, the Protest novel, the Blues novel, and womanism among others. The essays are full of fresh insights for students into the symbolic, aesthetic, and political function of canonical and non-canonical fiction. Chapters examine works by Ralph Ellison, Leon Forrest, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker, John Edgar Wideman, and many others. They reflect a range of critical methods intended to prompt new and experienced readers to consider the African American novel as a cultural and literary act of extraordinary significance. This volume, including a chronology and guide to further reading, is an important resource for students and teachers alike.
Vedi indiceChronology
1. Introduction: perspectives on the African novel F. Abiola Irele
2. The oral/literate interface Olukunle George
3. Chinua Achebe and the African novel Dan Izevbaye
4. Protest and resistance Barbara Harlow
5. The Afrikaans novel Chris Warnes
6. The African novel in Arabic Shaden Tageldin
7. The Francophone novel in North Africa Bernard Aresu
8. The Francophone African novel in Sub-Saharan Africa Lydie Moudileno
9. The historical novel M. Keith Booker
10. Magical realism and the African novel Ato Quayson
11. The African novel and the feminine condition Nana Wilson-Tagoe
12. Bildungsroman and autobiography Apollo Amoko
13. The postcolonial condition Phyllis Taoua
14. New voices and emerging themes Dominic Thomas
15. The critical reception of the African novel Harry Garuba
Further reading
Index.
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Cyrus R. K. Patell, Bryan Waterman
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010
New York holds a special place in America's national mythology as both the gateway to the USA and as a diverse, vibrant cultural center distinct from the rest of the nation. From the international atmosphere of the Dutch colony New Amsterdam, through the expansion of the city in the nineteenth century, to its unique appeal to artists and writers in the twentieth, New York has given its writers a unique perspective on American culture. This Companion explores the range of writing and performance in the city, celebrating Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, Eugene O'Neill, and Allen Ginsberg among a host of authors who have contributed to the city's rich literary and cultural history. Illustrated and featuring a chronology and guide to further reading, this book is the ideal guide for students of American literature as well as for all who love New York and its writers. (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceChronology
Introduction Cyrus R. K. Patell
1. From British outpost to American metropolis Robert Lawson-Peebles
2. Dutch New York from Irving to Wharton Elizabeth L. Bradley
3. The city on stage Bryan Waterman
4. Melville, at sea in the city Thomas Augst
5. Whitman's urbanism Lytle Shaw
6. The early literature of New York's moneyed class Caleb Crain
7. Writing Brooklyn Martha Nadell
8. New York and the novel of manners Sarah Wilson
9. Immigrants, politics and the popular cultures of tolerance Eric Homberger
10. Performing Greenwich Village bohemianism Melissa Bradshaw
11. African American literary movements Thulani Davis
12. New York's cultures of print Trysh Travis
13. From poetry to punk in the East Village Daniel Kane
14. Staging lesbian and gay New York Robin Bernstein
15. Emergent ethnic literatures Cyrus R. K. Patell
Epilogue: Nostalgia and counter-nostalgia in New York City writing Bryan Waterman
Guide to further reading.
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Sharon Monteith
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013
This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. From pre- and post-Civil War literature to modernist and civil rights fictions and writing by immigrants in the 'global' South of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars explore the region's established and emergent literary traditions. Touching on poetry and song, drama and screenwriting, key figures such as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, and iconic texts such as Gone with the Wind, chapters investigate how issues of class, poverty, sexuality and regional identity have textured Southern writing across generations. The volume's rich contextual approach highlights patterns and connections between writers while offering insight into the development of Southern literary criticism, making this Companion a valuable guide for students and teachers of American literature, American studies and the history of storytelling in America.(da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceIntroduction: mapping the figurative South Sharon Monteith
1. Region, genre, and the nineteenth-century South Kathryn B. McKee
2. Slave narratives and neo-slave narratives Judie Newman
3. Literature and the Civil War Will Kaufman
4. Literature and Reconstruction Scott Romine
5. Southern verse in poetry and song Ernest Suarez
6. Southern modernists and modernity David A. Davis
7. Poverty and progress Sarah Robertson
8. The Southern renaissance and the Faulknerian South John T. Matthews
9. Southern women writers and their influence Pearl McHaney
10. Hollywood dreaming: Southern writers and the movies Sarah Gleeson-White
11. Civil rights fiction Sharon Monteith
12. Southern drama Gary Richards
13. Queering the South Michael Bibler
14. Immigrant writers: transnational stories of a 'worlded' South Nahem Yousaf.
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Frank Shuffelton
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Jefferson
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009
This Companion forms an accessible introduction to the life and work of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence. Essays explore Jefferson's political thought, his policies towards Native Americans, his attitude to race and slavery, as well as his interests in science, architecture, religion and education. Contributors include leading literary scholars and historians; the essays offer up to date overviews of his many interests, his friendships and his legacy. Together, they reveal his importance in the cultural and political life of early America. At the same time these original essays speak to abiding modern concerns about American culture and Jefferson's place in it. This Companion will be essential reading for students and scholars of Jefferson, and is designed for use by students of American literature and American history.(da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceChronology
Introduction Frank Shuffelton
1. The Declaration of Independence and the New Nation Eric Slauter
2. Jefferson and the idea of Republican government Ari Helo
3. Jefferson and the West Thomas Hallock
4. Jefferson and Native Americans: policy and archive Gordon Sayre
5. Race and slavery in the era of Jefferson Douglas Egerton
6. Jefferson's people: slavery at Monticello Lucia C. Stanton
7. Jefferson, science, and the Enlightenment Timothy Sweet
8. Thomas Jefferson and the creation of the American architectural image Richard Guy Wilson
9. Jefferson and the education of a democratic citizenry Darren Staloff
10. Jefferson and religion: private belief, public policy Richard Samuelson
11. Jefferson and the language of friendship Andrew Burstein
12. The correspondence of Jefferson and Adams Joanne Freeman
13. The correspondence of Jefferson and Madison Annette Gordon-Reed
14. Jefferson and the democratic future Douglas Anderson
Guide to further reading.
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Justine Tally
The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison
Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2007
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, the first evaluation to include not only her famous novels, but also her other literary works (short story, drama, musical, and opera), her social and literary criticism, and her career as an editor and teacher. Innovative contributions from internationally recognized critics and academics discuss Morrison's themes, narrative techniques, language and political philosophy, and explain the importance of her work to American studies and world literature. This comprehensive and accessible approach, together with a chronology and guide to further reading, makes this an essential book for students and scholars of African American literature.
Vedi indice
Frontmatter pp. i-xviii
Introduction: “All necks are on the line” by Justine Tally
pp. 1-8
Part I - Toni Morrison’s fiction
1 - The Bluest Eye and Sula: black female experience from childhood to womanhood by Ágnes Surányi
pp. 11-25
2 - Song of Solomon and Tar Baby: the subversive role of language and the carnivalesque by Joyce Hope Scott
pp. 26-42
3 - Beloved or the shifting shapes of memory by Claudine Raynaud
pp. 43-58
4 - Jazz and Paradise: pivotal moments in black history by Shirley Ann Stave
pp. 59-74
5 - The Morrison trilogy by Justine Tally
pp. 75-91
6 - Love and the survival of the black community by Mar Gallego
pp. 92-100
7 - The artistic impulse of Toni Morrison’s shorter works by Abena P. A. Busia
pp. 101-112
Part II - Toni Morrison’s criticism and editing
8 - Toni Morrison’s literary criticism by Hanna Wallinger
pp. 115-124
9 - Toni Morrison’s social criticism by Sämi Ludwig
pp. 125-138
10 - Toni Morrison, editor and teacher by Cheryl A. Wall
pp. 139-148
Part III - Essays
11 - Language and narrative technique in Toni Morrison’s novels by Judylyn S. Ryan
pp. 151-161
12 - Toni Morrison, intellectual by Dwight A. McBride
pp. 162-174
13 - Morrison and the critical community by Deirdre J. Raynor and Johnnella E. Butler
pp. 175-184
Part IV - Further Reading
14 - Works by Toni Morrison
pp. 187-188
15 - Selected critical reading
pp. 189-191
Index
pp. 192-197
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Ezra Greenspan
The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995
The essays collected here, written for this volume by an international team of distinguished Whitman scholars, examine a variety of issues in Whitman's life and art. Their varying approaches mirror the diversity of contemporary scholarship and the breadth of target that Whitman affords for such examination. The authors of these essays address a wide range of issues befitting a poet of his stature and ambiguity: Whitman and photography, Whitman and feminist scholarship, Whitman and modernism, Whitman and the poetics of address, Whitman and the poetics of present participles, Whitman and Borges, Whitman and Isadora Duncan, Whitman and the Civil War, Whitman and the politics of his era, and Whitman and the changing nature of his style in his later years. Addressed to an audience of students and general readers and written in a nontechnical prose designed to promote accessibility to the study of Whitman, this volume includes a chronology of Whitman's life and suggestions for further reading.(da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceList of illustrations
List of contributors
Chronology of Whitman's life
1. Introduction Ezra Greenspan
2. 'As if I were with you' - the performance of Whitman's poetry Stephen Railton
3. Fratricide and brotherly love: Whitman and the Civil War M. Wynn Thomas
4. Reading Whitman's post-war poetry James Perrin Warren
5. Politics and poetry: Leaves of Grass and the social crisis of the 1850s David S. Reynolds
6. Some remarks on the poetics of 'Participle-loving Whitman' Ezra Greenspan
7. 'Being a woman … I wish to give my own view':
some nineteenth-century women's responses to the 1860 Leaves of Grass Sherry Ceniza
8. Appearing in print: illustrations of the self in Leaves of Grass Ed Folsom
9. 'I sing the body electric': Isadora Duncan, Whitman and the dance Ruth L. Bohan
10. Walt Whitman: precipitant of the modern Alan Trachtenberg
11. Borges's 'Song of myself' Fernando Alegría
Suggestions for further reading
Index
Whitman's writings.
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Philip M. Weinstein
The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995
This collection of essays explores Faulkner's widespread cultural import. Drawing on a wide range of cultural theory and written in accessible English, ten major Faulkner scholars examine the enduring whole of Faulkner's oeuvre. Bringing into focus the broader cultural context which lent its resonance to his work, the collection will be particularly useful for the student seeking critical introduction to Faulkner, while also serving the dedicated scholar interested in recent trends in Faulkner criticism. Together these essays map Faulkner's contemporary meaning by exploring his relation to modernism and postmodernism, to twentieth-century mass culture, to European and Latin American fiction, to issues of gender difference, and, above all, to the conflicted scene of United States race relations. Neither assuming in advance his literary 'greatness' nor insisting that his canonical status be revoked, they instead pose the question: what is at stake today in reading Faulkner? (da sito Cambridge University Press)
Vedi indiceIntroduction Philip M. Weinstein
Part I. The Texts in the World:
1. Faulkner and modernism Richard Moreland
2. Faulkner and postmodernism Patrick O'Donnell
3. Faulkner and the culture industry John T. Matthews
4. Faulkner from a European perspective André Bleikasten
5. Looking for a master plan: Faulkner, Paredes, and the colonial and postcolonial subject Ramón Saldívar
Part II. The World in the Texts:
6. Racial awareness and arrested development: The Sound and the Fury and The Great Migration (1915–1928) Cheryl Lester
7. Race in Light in August: word symbols and obverse reflections Judith Bryant Wittenberg
8. Absalom, Absalom!: (Un)making the father Carolyn Porter
Conclusion: the stakes of reading Faulkner: discerning reading Warwick Wadlington
Index.
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by Gene Andrew Jarrett (Editor)
A Companion to African American Literature
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
Through a series of essays that explore the forms, themes, genres, historical contexts, major authors, and latest critical approaches, A Companion to African American Literature presents a comprehensive chronological overview of African American literature from the eighteenth century to the modern day
Examines African American literature from its earliest origins, through the rise of antislavery literature in the decades leading into the Civil War, to the modern development of contemporary African American cultural media, literary aesthetics, and political ideologies
Addresses the latest critical and scholarly approaches to African American literature
Features essays by leading established literary scholars as well as newer voices
Vedi indiceNotes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Gene Andrew Jarrett
Part I. The Literatures of Africa, Middle Passage, Slavery, and Freedom: The Early and Antebellum Periods, c.1750–1865 9
1. Back to the Future: Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Black Authors 11
Vincent Carretta
2. Africa in Early African American Literature 25
James Sidbury
3. Ports of Call, Pulpits of Consultation: Rethinking the Origins of African American Literature 45
Frances Smith Foster and Kim D. Green
4. The Constitution of Toussaint: Another Origin of African American Literature 59
Michael J. Drexler and Ed White
5. Religion in Early African American Literature 75
Joanna Brooks and Tyler Mabry
6. The Economies of the Slave Narrative 90
Philip Gould
7. The 1850s: The First Renaissance of Black Letters 103
Maurice S. Lee
8. African American Literary Nationalism 119
Robert S. Levine
9. Periodicals, Print Culture, and African American Poetry 133
Ivy G. Wilson
Part II. New Negro Aesthetics, Culture, and Politics: The Modern Period, 1865–c.1940 149
10. Racial Uplift and the Literature of the New Negro 151
Marlon B. Ross
11. The Dialect of New Negro Literature 169
Gene Andrew Jarrett
12. African American Literary Realism, 1865–1914 185
Andreá N. Williams
13. Folklore and African American Literature in the Post-Reconstruction Era 200
Shirley Moody-Turner
14. The Harlem Renaissance: The New Negro at Home and Abroad 212
Michelle Ann Stephens
15. Transatlantic Collaborations: Visual Culture in African American Literature 227
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
16. Aesthetic Hygiene: Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Work of Art 243
Mark Christian Thompson
17. African American Modernism and State Surveillance 254
William J. Maxwell
Part III. Reforming the Canon, Tradition, and Criticism of African American Literature: The Contemporary Period, c.1940–Present 269
18. The Chicago Renaissance 271
Michelle Yvonne Gordon
19. Jazz and African American Literature 286
Keith D. Leonard
20. The Black Arts Movement 302
James Edward Smethurst
21. Humor in African American Literature 315
Glenda R. Carpio
22. Neo-Slave Narratives 332
Madhu Dubey
23. Popular Black Women’s Fiction and the Novels of Terry McMillan 347
Robin V. Smiles
24. African American Science Fiction 360
Jeffrey Allen Tucker
25. Latino/a Literature and the African Diaspora 376
Theresa Delgadillo
26. African American Literature and Queer Studies: The Conundrum of James Baldwin 393
Guy Mark Foster
27. African American Literature and Psychoanalysis 410
Arlene R. Keizer
Name Index 421
Subject Index 442
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by Shirley Samuels (Editor)
A Companion to American Fiction 1780 - 1865
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004
This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war.
Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fiction
Relates the fiction of the period to conflicts about territory and sovereignty and to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and identity
Covers different forms of fiction, including children’s literature, sketches, polemical pieces, historical romances, Gothic novels and novels of exploration
Considers both canonical and lesser-known authors, including James Fennimore Cooper, Hannah Foster, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Harriet Beecher Stowe
Treats neglected topics, such as the Western novel, science and the novel, and American fiction in languages other than English
Vedi indiceList of Illustrations.
Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: Shirley Samuels (University of Connecticut).
Part I: Historical and Cultural Contexts.
1. National Narrative and the Problem of American Nationhood: Gerald Kennedy (Louisiana State University).
2. Fiction and Democracy: Paul Downes (University of Toronto).
3. Democratic Fictions: Sandra M. Gustafson (University of Notre Dame).
4. Engendering American Fictions: Martha J. Cutter (Kent State University) and Caroline F. Levander (Rice University).
5. Race and Ethnicity: Robert S. Levine (University of Maryland).
6. Class: Philip Gould (Brown University).
7. Sexualities: Valerie Rohy (University of Vermont).
8. Religion: Paul Gutjahr (Indiana University).
9. Education and Polemic: Stephanie Foote (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
10. Marriage and Contract: Naomi Morgenstern (University of Toronto).
11. Transatlantic Ventures: Wil Verhoeven (University of Groningen) and Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick).
12. Other Languages, Other Americas: Kirsten Silva Gruesz (University of California, Santa Cruz).
Part II: Forms of Fiction.
13. Literary Histories: Ed White (Louisiana State University) and Michael Drexler (Bucknell University).
14. Reading and Breeding: Chesterfieldian Civility in the Early Republic: Christopher Lukasik (Boston University).
15. The American Gothic: Marianne Noble (American University).
16. Sensational Fiction: Shelley Streeby (University of California, San Diego).
17. Melodrama and American Fiction: Lori Merish (Georgetown University).
18. Delicate Boundaries: Passing and Other “Crossings” in Fictionalized Slave Narratives: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
19. Doctors, Bodies, and Fiction: Stephanie Browner (Berea College).
20. Law and the American Novel: Laura Korobkin (Boston University).
21. Labor and Fiction: Cindy Weinstein (Caltech).
22. Words for Children: Carol Singley (Rutgers University).
23. Dime Novels: Colin Ramsey (Appalachian State University) and Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola (University of Arkansas).
24. Reform and Antebellum Fiction: Chris Castiglia (Loyola University).
Part III: Authors, Locations, Purposes.
25. The Problem of the City: Heather Roberts (Clark University).
26. New Landscapes: Timothy Sweet (West Virginia University).
27. The Gothic Meets Sensation: Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allen Poe, George Lippard, and E.D.E.N. Southworth: Dana Luciano (Georgetown University).
28. Retold Legends: Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding, John Pendleton Kennedy: Philip Barnard (University of Kansas).
29. Captivity and Freedom: Ann Eliza Bleecker, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle”: Eric Gary Anderson (George Mason University).
30. New England Tales: Catharine Sedgwick, Catherine Brown, and the Dislocations of Indian Land: Bethany Schneider (Bryn Mawr College).
31. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caroline Lee Hentz, Herman Melville, and American Racialist Exceptionalism: Katherine Adams (University of Tulsa).
32. Fictions of the South: Southern Portraits of Slavery: Nancy Buffington (University of Delaware).
33. The West: Edward Watts (Michigan State University).
34. The Old Southwest: Mike Fink, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, and George Washington Harris: David Rachels (Virginia Military Institute).
35. James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the American Novel: Wayne Franklin (University of Connecticut).
36. The Sea: Herman Melville and Moby Dick: Stephanie A. Smith (University of Florida).
37. National Narrative and National History: Russ Castronovo (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
Index
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by Robert Paul Lamb (Editor), G. R. Thompson (Editor)
A Companion to American Fiction 1865 - 1914
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers.
An exceptionally broad-ranging and accessible Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century Brings together 29 essays by top scholars, each of which presents a synthesis of the best research and offers an original perspective
Divided into sections on historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors
Covers a mixture of canonical and the non-canonical themes, authors, literatures, and critical approaches
Explores innovative topics, such as ecological literature and ecocriticism, children’s literature, and the influence of Darwin on fiction
Vedi indice List of Illustrations x
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xviii
Editors' Introduction 1
Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson
PART I Historical Traditions and Genres 13
1 The Practice and Promotion of American Literary Realism 15
Nancy Glazener
2 Excitement and Consciousness in the Romance Tradition 35
William J. Scheick
3 The Sentimental and Domestic Traditions, 1865–1900 53
Gregg Camfield
4 Morality, Modernity, and Malarial Restlessness: American Realism in its Anglo-European Contexts 77
Winfried Fluck
5 American Literary Naturalism 96
Christophe Den Tandt
6 American Regionalism: Local Color, National Literature, Global Circuits 119
June Howard
7 Women Authors and the Roots of American Modernism 140
Linda Wagner-Martin
8 The Short Story and the Short-Story Sequence, 1865–1914 149
J. Gerald Kennedy
PART II Contexts and Themes 175
9 Ecological Narrative and Nature Writing 177
S. K. Robisch
10 The Frontier Story: The Violence of Literary History 201
Christine Bold
11 Native American Narratives: Resistance and Survivance 222
Gerald Vizenor
12 Representing the Civil War and Reconstruction: From Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus 240
Kathleen Diffley
13 Engendering the Canon: Women's Narratives, 1865–1914 260
Grace Farrell
14 Confronting the Crisis: African American Narratives 279
Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.
15 Fiction's Many Cities 296
Sidney H. Bremer
16 Mapping the Culture of Abundance: Literary Narratives and Consumer Culture 318
Sarah Way Sherman
17 Secrets of the Master's Deed Box: Narrative and Class 340
Christopher P. Wilson
18 Ethnic Realism 356
Robert M. Dowling
19 Darwin, Science, and Narrative 377
Bert Bender
20 Writing in the Vulgar Tongue: Law and American Narrative 395
William E. Moddelmog
21 Planning Utopia 411
Thomas Peyser
22 American Children's Narrative as Social Criticism, 1865–1914 428
Gwen Athene Tarbox
PART III Major Authors 449
23 An Idea of Order at Concord: Soul and Society in the Mind of Louisa May Alcott 451
John Matteson
24 America Can Break Your Heart: On the Significance of Mark Twain 468
Robert Paul Lamb
25 William Dean Howells and the Bourgeois Quotidian: Affection, Skepticism, Disillusion 499
Michael Anesko
26 Henry James in a New Century 518
John Carlos Rowe
27 Toward a Modernist Aesthetic: The Literary Legacy of Edith Wharton 536
Candace Waid and Clare Colquitt
28 Sensations of Style: The Literary Realism of Stephen Crane 557
William E. Cain
29 Theodore Dreiser and the Force of the Personal 572
Clare Virginia Eby
Index 587
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by Caroline F. Levander (Editor), Robert S. Levine (Editor)
A Companion to American Literary Studies
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
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
Vedi indiceNotes 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
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by Kent A. Ono (Editor)
A Companion to Asian American Studies
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004
A Companion to Asian American Studies is comprised of 20 previously published essays that have played an important historical role in the conceptualization of Asian American studies as a field.
Essays are drawn from international publications, from the 1970s to the present
Includes coverage of psychology, history, literature, feminism, sexuality, identity politics, cyberspace, pop culture, queerness, hybridity, and diasporic consciousness
Features a useful introduction by the editor reviewing the selections, and outlining future possibilities for the field
Can be used alongside Asian American Studies After Critical Mass, edited by Kent A. Ono, for a complete reference to Asian American Studies.
Vedi indicePreface.
Acknowledgments.
Retracing an Intellectual Course in Asian American Studies. (Kent A. Ono).
Part I:. Defining Conversations in Asian American Studies.
Psychology.
1 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health. (Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue).
2 The Ghetto of the Mind: Notes on the Historical Psychology of Chinese America. (Ben R. Tong).
3 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health: A Reply to Tong's Criticisms. (Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue).
History.
4 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore. (L. Ling-chi Wang).
5 Strangers from a Different Shore as History and Historiography. Sucheng Chan.
6 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore. (Elaine H. Kim).
7 A Response to Ling-chi Wang, Elaine Kim, and Sucheng Chan. (Ronald Takaki).
Literature and Feminism.
8. Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake (Excerpt). (Frank Chin).
9. The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism? (King-Kok Cheung).
Part II: Influential Essays in Asian American Studies.
10 Split Household, Small Producer and Dual Wage Earner: An Analysis of Chinese-American Family Strategies. (Evelyn Nakano Glenn).
11 Defining Asian American Realities through Literature. (Elaine H. Kim).
12 Asian Americans as the Model Minority: An Analysis of the Popular Press Image in the 1960s and 1980s. (Keith Osajima).
13 Mestiza Girlhood: Interracial Families in Chicago's Filipino American Community since 1925. (Barbara Posadas).
14 Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn. (Richard Fung).
15 Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences. (Lisa Lowe).
16 Beyond Identity Politics: The Predicament of the Asian American Writer in Late Capitalism. (E. San Juan, Jr.).
17 Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile. (Oscar V. Campomanes).
18 Los Angeles, Asians, and Perverse Ventriloquisms: On the Functions of Asian America in the Recent American Imaginary. (David Palumbo-Liu).
19 Colonial Oppression, Labour Importation, and Group Formation: Filipinos in the United States. (Yen Le Espiritu).
20 Out Here and Over There: Queerness and Diaspora in Asian American Studies. (David L. Eng).
Index.
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by Martha Nell Smith (Editor), Mary Loeffelholz (Editor)
A Companion to Emily Dickinson
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
This Companion to America’s greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies.
Covers biographical approaches of Dickinson, the historical, political and cultural contexts of her work, and its critical reception over the years
Considers issues relating to the different formats in which Dickinson’s lyrics have been published – manuscript, print, halftone and digital facsimile
Provides incisive interventions into current critical discussions, as well as opening up fresh areas of critical inquiry
Features new work being done in the critique of nineteenth-century American poetry generally, as well as new work being done in Dickinson studies
Designed to be used alongside the Dickinson Electronic Archives, an online resource developed over the past ten years
Vedi indiceNotes on Contributors.
Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction (Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz).
Part I: Biography – the Myth of “the Myth”.
1 Architecture of the Unseen (Aife Murray).
2 Fracturing a Master Narrative, Reconstructing “Sister Sue” (Ingrid Satelmajer).
3 Public, Private Spheres: What Reading Emily Dickinson’s Mail Taught me about Civil Wars (Martha Nell Smith).
4 “Pretty much all real life”: The Material World of the Dickinson Family (Jane Wald).
Part II: The Civil War – Historical and Political Contexts.
5 “Drums off the Phantom Battlements”: Dickinson’s War Poems in Discursive Context (Faith Barrett).
6 The Eagle’s Eye: Dickinson’s View of Battle (Renée Bergland).
7 “How News Must Feel When Traveling”: Dickinson and Civil War Media (Eliza Richards).
Part III: Cultural Contexts – Literature, Philosophy, Theology, Science.
8 Really Indigenous Productions: Emily Dickinson, Josiah Holland, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Verse (Mary Loeffelholz).
9 Thinking Dickinson Thinking Poetry (Virginia Jackson).
10 Dickinson and the Exception (Max Cavitch).
11 Dickinson’s Uses of Spiritualism: The “Nature” of Democratic Belief (Paul Crumbley).
12 “Forever – is Composed of Nows –”: Emily Dickinson’s Conception of Time (Gudrun M. Grabher).
13 God’s Place in Dickinson’s Ecology (Nancy Mayer).
Part IV: Textual Conditions: Manuscripts, Printings, Digital Surrogates.
14 Auntie Gus Felled It New (Tim Morris).
15 Reading Dickinson in Her Context: The Fascicles (Eleanor Elson Heginbotham).
16 The Poetics of Interruption: Dickinson, Death, and the Fascicles (Alexandra Socarides).
17 Climates of the Creative Process: Dickinson’s Epistolary Journal (Connie Ann Kirk).
18 Hearing the Visual Lines: How Manuscript Study Can Contribute to an Understanding of Dickinson’s Prosody (Ellen Louise Hart, with Sandra Chung).
19 “The Thews of Hymn”: Dickinson’s Metrical Grammar (Michael L. Manson).
20 Dickinson’s Structured Rhythms 391
Cristanne Miller
21 A Digital Regiving: Editing the Sweetest Messages
in the Dickinson Electronic Archives 415
Tanya Clement
22 Editing Dickinson in an Electronic Environment 437
Lara Vetter
Part V: Poetry & Media – Dickinson’s Legacies.
23 “Dare you see a soul at the White Heat?”: Thoughts on a “Little
Home-keeping Person” (Sandra M. Gilbert).
24 Re-Playing the Bible: My Emily Dickinson (Alicia Ostriker).
25 “For Flash and Click and Suddenness–”: Emily Dickinson and the Photography-Effect (Marta L. Werner).
26 Zero to the Bone: Thelonious Monk, Emily Dickinson, and the Rhythms of Modernism (Joshua Weiner).
Index of First Lines.
Index of Letters of Emily Dickinson.
Index.
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by Greg W. Zacharias (Editor)
A Companion to Henry James
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
Written by some of the world's most distinguished Henry James scholars, this innovative collection of essays provides the most up-to-date scholarship on James’s writings available today.
Provides an essential, up-to-date reference to the work and scholarship of Henry James
Features the writing of a wide range of James scholars
Places James’s writings within national contexts—American, English, French, and Italian
Offers both an overview of contemporary James scholarship and a cutting edge resource for studying important individual topics
Vedi indiceNotes on Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Chronology of Henry James’s Life and Work.
Part I: Fiction and Non-Fiction.
1. “Bad Years in the Matrimonial Market”: James’s Shorter Fiction 1865–1878 (Clair Hughes (retired)).
2. What Daisy Knew: Reading Against Type in Daisy Miller: A Study (Sarah Wadsworth, Marquette University).
3. Growing Up Absurd: The Search for Self in Henry James’s The American (Wendy Graham, Vassar College).
4. Vital Illusions in The Portrait of a Lady (Peter Rawlings, University of the West of England).
5. The Bostonians and the Crisis of Vocation (Sarah B. Daugherty, Wichita State University).
6. “The Abysses of Silence” in The Turn of the Screw (Kimberly C. Reed, Lipscomb University).
7. On Maisie’s Knowing Her Own Mind (Robert B. Pippin, University of Chicago).
8. “What woman was ever safe?” Dangerous Constructions of Womanhood in The Ambassadors (Anna Despotopoulou, University of Athens).
9. Unwrapping the Ghost: The Design Behind Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove (Evelyne Ender, City University of New York).
10. Truth, Knowledge, and Magic in The Golden Bowl (Sigi Jöttkandt, Jan van Eyck Academy).
11. Henry James and the (Un)Canny American Scene (Gert Buelens, Ghent University).
12. Revisitings and Revisions in the New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James (Philip Horne, University College London).
13. What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Love: Henry James’s Last Words (Michael Anesko, Pennsylvania State University).
14. Henry James, Cultural Critic (Pierre A. Walker, Salem State College).
15. Timeliness and Henry James’s Letters (Greg W. Zacharias, Creighton University).
Part II: Contexts for Reading Henry James.
16. A Brief Biography of Henry James (Jennifer Eimers, University of Georgia).
17. Jamesian Matter (Bill Brown, University of Chicago).
18. Henry James and the Sexuality of Literature: Before and Beyond Queer Theory (Natasha Hurley, University of Alberta).
19. Exuberance and the Spaces of Inept Instruction: Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys and Henry James’s The Art of the Novel (Denis Flannery, University of Leeds).
20. Nothing Personal: Women Characters, Gender Ideology, and Literary Representation (Donatella Izzo, Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”).
21. The Others: Henry James’s Family (Linda Simon, Skidmore College).
22. Beyond the Rim: Camp Henry James (Jonathan Warren, York University, Toronto).
23. Henry James and the United States (John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California).
24. Henry James and Britain: Nicola Bradbury (University of Reading).
25. Henry James in France (Julie Wolkenstein, Caen Basse-Normandie University).
26. Henry James and Italy (Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, University of Venice).
27. Henry James in the Public Sphere (Richard Salmon, University of Leeds).
28. James and Film (Susan M. Griffin, University of Louisville).
Index.
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by Wyn Kelley (Editor)
A Companion to Herman Melville
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006
In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville’s works in the twenty-first century.
Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville
Considers Melville in a global context, and looks at the impact of global economies and technologies on the way people read Melville
Takes account of the latest and most sophisticated scholarship, including postcolonial and feminist perspectives
Locates Melville in his cultural milieu, revising our views of his politics on race, gender and democracy
Reveals Melville as a more contemporarywriter than his critics have sometimes assumed
Vedi indiceList of Illustrations.
Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
Texts and Abbreviations.
Preface (Wyn Kelley).
Part I: Travels.
1. A Traveling Life (Laurie Robertson-Lorant).
2. Cosmopolitanism and Traveling Culture (Peter Gibian).
3. Melville's World Readers (A. Robert Lee).
4. Global Melville (Paul Lyons).
Part II: Geographies.
5. Science and the Earth (Bruce A. Harvey).
6. Ships, Whaling, and the Sea (Mary K. Bercaw Edwards).
7. Pacific Paradises (Alex Calder).
8. Atlantic Trade (Hester Blum).
9. Ancient Lands (Basem L. Ra'ad).
Part III: Nations.
10. Democracy and its Discontents (Dennis Berthold).
11. Urbanization, Class Struggle, and Reform (Carol Colatrella).
12. Wicked Books: Melville and Religion (Hilton Obenzinger).
13. Pierre's Bad Associations: Public Life in the Institutional Nation (Christopher Castiglia).
14. Melville, Slavery, and the American Dilemma (John Stauffer).
15. Gender and Sexuality (Leland S. Person).
Part IV: Libraries.
16. The Legacy of Britain (Robin Grey).
17. Romantic Philosophy, Transcendentalism, and Nature (Rechela Permenter).
18. Literature of Exploration and the Sea (R.D. Madison).
19. Death and Literature: Melville and the Epitaph (Edgar A. Dryden).
20. The Company of Women Authors (Charlene Avallone).
21. Hawthorne and Race (Ellen Weinauer).
22. Unlike Things Must Meet and Mate: Melville and the Visual Arts (Robert K. Wallace).
Part V: Texts.
23. The Motive for Metaphor: Type, Omoo, and Mardi (Geoffrey Sanborn).
24. Artist at Work: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, and Pierre Cindy Weinstein).
25. The Language of Moby-Dick: Read It If You Can (Maurice S. Lee).
26. Threading the Labyrinth: Moby-Dick as Hybrid Epic (Christopher Sten).
27. The Female Subject in Pierre and The Piazza Tales (Caroline Levander).
28. Narrative Shock in Bartleby, the Scrivener, The Paradise of Bacherlors and the Tartars of Maids, and Benito Cereno (Marvin Fisher).
29. Fluid Identity in Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man (Gale Temple).
30. How Clarel Works (Samuel Otter).
31. Melville the Realist Poet (Elizabeth Renker).
32. Melville's Transhistorical Voice: Billy Budd, Sailor and the Fragmentation of Forms (John Wenke).
Part VI: Meenings.
33. The Melville Revival (Sanford E. Marovitz).
34. Creating Icons: Melville in Visual Media and Popular Culture (Elizabeth Schultz).
35. The Melville Text (John Bryant).
Index.
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by Peter Messent (Editor), Louis J. Budd (Editor)
A Companion to Mark Twain
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005
This broad-ranging companion brings together respected American and European critics and a number of up-and-coming scholars to provide an overview of Twain, his background, his writings, and his place in American literary history.
One of the most broad-ranging volumes to appear on Mark Twain in recent years.
Brings together respected Twain critics and a number of younger scholars in the field to provide an overview of this central figure in American literature.
Places special emphasis on the ways in which Twain's works remain both relevant and important for a twenty-first century audience.
A concluding essay evaluates the changing landscape of Twain criticism.
Vedi indiceNotes on Contributors.
Note on Referencing.
Acknowledgments.
PART I The Cultural Context.
1 Mark Twain and Nation (Randall Knoper).
2 Mark Twain and Human Nature (Tom Quirk).
3 Mark Twain and America's Christian Mission Abroad (Susan K. Harris).
4 Mark Twain and Whiteness (Richard S. Lowry).
5 Mark Twain and Gender (Peter Stoneley).
6 Twain and Modernity (T. J. Lustig).
7 Mark Twain and Politics (James S. Leonard).
8 The State, it is I: Mark Twain, Imperialism, and the New Americanists (Scott Michaelsen).
PART II Mark Twain and Others.
9 Twain, Language, and the Southern Humorists (Gavin Jones).
10 The American Dickens: Mark Twain and Charles Dickens (Christopher Gair).
11 Nevada Influences on Mark Twain (Lawrence I. Berkove).
12 The Twain–Cable Combination (Stephen Railton).
13 Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Realism (Peter Messent).
PART III Mark Twain: Publishing and Performing.
14 I don't know A from B: Mark Twain and Orality (Thomas D. Zlatic).
15 Mark Twain and the Profession of Writing (Leland Krauth).
16 Mark Twain and the Promise and Problems of Magazines (Martin T. Buinicki).
17 Mark Twain and the Stage (Shelley Fisher Fishkin).
18 Mark Twain on the Screen (R. Kent Rasmussen and Mark Dawidziak).
PART IV Mark Twain and Travel.
19 Twain and the Mississippi (Andrew Dix).
20 Mark Twain and the Literary Construction of the American West (Gary Scharnhorst).
21 Mark Twain and Continental Europe (Holger Kersten).
22 Mark Twain and Travel Writing (Jeffrey Alan Melton).
PART V Mark Twain's Fiction.
23 Mark Twain's Short Fiction (Henry B. Wonham).
24 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Prince and the Pauper as Juvenile Literature (Linda A. Morris).
25 Plotting and Narrating Huck (Victor Doyno).
26 Going to Tom's Hell in Huckleberry Finn (Hilton Obenzinger).
27 History, Civilization, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Sam Halliday).
28 Mark Twain's Dialects (David Lionel Smith).
29 Killing Half A Dog, Half A Novel: The Trouble With The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and The Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins (John Bird).
30 Dreaming Better Dreams: The Late Writing of Mark Twain (Forrest G. Robinson).
PART VI Mark Twain's Humor.
31 Mark Twain's Visual Humor (Louis J. Budd).
32 Mark Twain and Post-Civil War Humor (Cameron C. Nickels).
33 Mark Twain and Amiable Humor (Gregg Camfield).
34 Mark Twain and the Enigmas of Wit (Bruce Michelson).
PART VII A Retrospective.
35 The State of Mark Twain Studies (Alan Gribben).
Index.
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by Alfred Bendixen (Editor)
A Companion to the American Novel
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
Featuring 37 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the development of the novel in the United States from the late 18th century to the present day.
Represents the most comprehensive single-volume introduction to this popular literary form currently available
Features 37 contributions from a wide range of distinguished literary scholars
Includes essays on topics and genres, historical overviews, and key individual works, including The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, The Great Gatsby, Beloved, and many more.
Vedi indiceNotes on Contributors ix
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxi
A Chronology of the American Novel xxii
Part I: Historical Developments 1
1 The Development of the American Novel: The Transformations of Genre 3
Alfred Bendixen
2 The American Novel: Beginnings Through the American Renaissance 19
Maria Karafilis
3 The American Novel: Realism and Naturalism (1860–1920) 42
Jeanne Campbell Reesman
4 Modernism and the American Novel 60
Peter L. Hays
5 Beyond Modernism: The American Novel Between the World Wars 76
Alfred Bendixen
6 The Cold War Novel: The American Novel Between 1945–1970 90
Sharon Becker and Wendy Martin
7 The Novel in a Changing America: Multiculturalism and Other Issues (1970–Present) 109
Martha J. Cutter
Part II: Genres and Traditions 127
8 Fear, Ambiguity, and Transgression: The Gothic Novel in the United States 129
Charles L. Crow
9 The American Historical Romance: From James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and E. L. Doctorow 147
Emily Miller Budick
10 Making This Whole Nation Feel: The Sentimental Novel in the United States 170
Marianne Noble
11 Social Protest, Reform, and the American Political Novel 187
Chip Rhodes
12 The American War Novel Tradition and the Individual Soldier 206
James H. Meredith
13 From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Comic Traditions in the American Novel 218
Judith Yaross Lee
14 Plotting a Way Home: The Jewish American Novel 241
Derek Parker Royal
15 Chicano/a Traditions in the American Novel 259
Juan J. Alonzo
16 African American Traditions and the American Novel 274
Melvin Donalson
17 The American Novel of Mystery, Crime, and Detection 291
Leonard Cassuto
18 O Brave New Worlds: Science Fiction and the American Novel 309
Eric S. Rabkin
19 Dreaming of a White Future: Mary E. Bradley Lane, Edward Bellamy, and the Origins of the Utopian Novel in the United States 323
Jean Pfaelzer
20 Queer Theory and the American Novel 342
Deborah Carlin
21 The American Short-Story Cycle: Out From the Novel’s Shadow 357
Robert M. Luscher
Part III: Major Texts 373
22 The Woman’s Law in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter 375
Monika Elbert
23 Writ in Water: The Books of Melville’s Moby-Dick 394
Wyn Kelley
24 Wonder of Wonders: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin 408
Susan Belasco
25 Citational Strategies and Literary Traditions: Placing Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady 422
Greg W. Zacharias
26 Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Child’s Search for Comfort and Peace 443
Michael J. Kiskis
27 What Women Want: Kate Chopin’s The Awakening 454
Emily Toth
28 Private Fleming’s Various Battles: Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage 465
James Nagel
29 Lily’s Story: Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth 475
Kathy Fedorko
30 The Confessional Narration of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises 488
James Nagel
31 Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and the Myth of the Land 499
Richard Lehan
32 Ground Zero: Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury 510
Philip Weinstein
33 A Bigger Vision: Richard Wright’s Native Son and the Great American
Novel 525
Andrew Warnes
34 Our Invisible Man: The Aesthetic Genealogy of US Diversity 537
John Carlos Rowe
35 The Visionary Exuberance of Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March 554
Ben Siegel
36 The Flesh and the Word: Toni Morrison’s Beloved 570
Valerie Smith
37 A Different Kind of Love Story: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road 582
Olivia Carr Edenfield
Selected Readings in the Genres of the American Novel 598
Index 610
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by Alfred Bendixen (Editor), James Nagel (Editor)
A Companion to the American Short Story
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
A Companion to the American Short Story traces the development of this versatile literary genre over the past 200 years.
Sets the short story in context, paying attention to the interaction of cultural forces and aesthetic principles
Contributes to the ongoing redefinition of the American canon, with close attention to the achievements of women writers as well as such important genres as the ghost story and detective fiction
Embraces diverse traditions including African-American, Jewish-American, Latino, Native-American, and regional short story writing
Includes a section focused on specific authors and texts, from Edgar Allen Poe to John Updike
Vedi indiceNotes on Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Part I: The Nineteenth Century.
1 The Emergence and Development of the American Short Story (Alfred Bendixen).
2 Poe and the American Short Story (Benjamin F. Fisher).
3 A Guide to Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener (Steven T. Ryan).
4 Towards History and Beyond: Hawthorne and the American Short Story (Alfred Bendixen).
5 Charles W. Chesnutt and the Fictions of a New America (Charles Duncan).
6 Mark Twain and the American Comic Short Story (David E. E. Sloane).
7 New England Local-Color Literature: A Colonial Formation (Josephine Donovan).
8 Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Feminist Tradition of the American Short Story (Martha J. Cutter).
9 The Short Stories of Edith Wharton (Donna Campbell).
Part II: The Transition into the New Century.
10 The Short Stories of Stephen Crane (Paul Sorrentino).
11 Kate Chopin (Charlotte Rich).
12 Frank Norris and Jack London (Jeanne Campbell Reesman).
13 From Water Drops to General Strikes: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Short Fiction and Social Change (Andrew J. Furer).
Part III: The Twentieth Century.
14 The Twentieth Century: A Period of Innovation and Continuity (James Nagel).
15 The Hemingway Story (George Monteiro).
16 William Faulkner’s Short Stories (Hugh Ruppersburg).
17 Katherine Anne Porter (Ruth M. Alvarez).
18 Eudora Welty and the Short Story: Theory and Practice (Ruth D. Weston).
19 The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Structure, Narrative Technique, Style (Kirk Curnutt).
20 “The Look of the World”: Richard Wright on Perspective (Mikko Tuhkanen).
21 Small Planets: The Short Fiction of Saul Bellow (Gloria L. Cronin).
22 John Updike (Robert M. Luscher).
23 Raymond Carver in the Twenty-First Century (Sandra Lee Kleppe).
24 Multi-Ethnic Female Identity and Denise Chávez's The Last of the Menu Girls (Karen Weekes).
Part IV: Expansive Considerations.
25 Landscape as Haven in American Women's Short Stories (Leah B. Glasser).
26 The American Ghost Story (Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock).
27 The Detective Story (Catherine Ross Nickerson).
28 The Asian American Short Story (Wenying Xu).
29 The Jewish American Story (Andrew Furman).
30 The Multiethnic American Short Story (Molly Crumpton Winter).
31 Should I Stay or Should I Go? American Restlessness and the Short-Story Cycle (Jeff Birkenstein).
Index.
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by Nicolas S. Witschi (Editor)
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states.
Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the west
Focuses on the intersections, complexities, and challenges found within and between the different historical and cultural groups that define the west's various distinctive regions
Addresses traditionally familiar icons and ideas about the west (such as cowboys, wide-open spaces, and violence) and their intersections with urbanization and other regional complexities
Features essays written by many of the leading scholars in western American cultural studies
Vedi indiceNote on Contributors.
Part I: Introduction.
1 Imagining The West (Nicolas S. Witschi).
Part II: Regions and Histories.
2 Exploration, Trading, Trapping, Travel, and Early Fiction, 1780-1850 (Edward Watts).
3 Worlds of Wonder and Ambition: Gold Rush California and the Culture of Mining Bonanzas in the North American West (Peter J. Blodgett).
4 The Literate West of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals (Tara Penry).
5 A History of American Women's Western Books, 1833-1928 (Nina Baym).
6 Literary Cultures of the American Southwest (Daniel Worden).
7 Literary Cartography of the Great Plains (Susan Naramore Maher).
8 The Literary Northern Rockies as The Last Best Place (O. Alan Weltzien).
9 North by Northwest: The Last Frontier of Western Literature (Eric Heyne).
10 Chronotopes of the Asian American West (Hsuan L. Hsu).
11 African American Literature and Culture and the American West (Michael K. Johnson).
12 Mythical Frontiers: Manifest Destiny, Aztlán, and the Cosmic Race (John L. Escobedo).
13 Writing the Indigenous West (Kathleen Washburn).
14 Framing Class in the Rural West: Cowboys, Double-Wides and McMansions (Nancy Cook).
15 Postcolonial West (Alex Hunt).
16 New West, Urban and Suburban Spaces, Postwest (Krista Comer).
Part III: Varieties and Forms.
17 What We Talk about When We Talk about Western Art (Brian W. Dippie).
18 All Hat and No Cattle: Romance, Realism, and Late-19th-Century Western American Fiction (Gary Scharnhorst).
19 The Coyote Nature of Cowboy Poetry (Barbara Barney Nelson).
20 The Wind Blew Them Away: Folksinging the West, 1880-1930 (David Fenimore).
21 Autobiography (Gioia Woods).
22 Housing the American West: Western Women’s Literature, Early Twentieth Century and Beyond (Cathryn Halverson).
23 The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree: Western American Literature and Environmental Literary Criticism (Hal Crimmel).
24 Detective Fiction (Nicolas S. Witschi).
25 The American Western Film (Corey K. Creekmur).
26 Post-Western Cinema (Neil Campbell).
Part IV: Issues, Themes, Case Studies.
27 America Unscripted: Performing the Wild West (Jefferson D. Slagle).
28 Revising Public Memory in the American West: Native American Performance in the Ramona Outdoor Play (Karen E. Ramirez).
29 Omnimedia Marketing: The Case of The Lone Ranger (Chadwick Allen).
30 The Nuclear Southwest (Audrey Goodman).
31 Ranging Over Stegner’s Arid West: Mobility as Adaptive Strategy (Bonney MacDonald).
32 The Global West: Temporality, Spatial Politics, and Literary Production (Susan Kollin).
33 Tumbling Dice: The Problem of Las Vegas (Stephen Tatum and Nathaniel Lewis).
Index.
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by Richard Gray, Owen Robinson
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007
From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this Companion is the definitive guide to the literature and culture of the American South.
Includes discussion of the visual arts, music, society, history, and politics in the region
Combines treatment of major literary works and historical events with a survey of broader themes, movements and issues
Explores the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Huston, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty, as well as those - black and white, male and female - who are writing now
Co-edited by the esteemed scholar Richard Gray, author of the acclaimed volume, A History of American Literature (Blackwell, 2003)
Vedi indicePart I: Introduction.
Part II: Themes and Issues.
Part III: Individuals and Movements.
Part IV: Afterword.
Index
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by Susan Castillo (Editor), Ivy Schweitzer (Editor)
A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005
This broad introduction to Colonial American literatures brings out the comparative and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period and highlights the interactions between native, non-scribal groups, and Europeans that helped to shape early American writing.
Situates the writing of this period in its various historical and cultural contexts, including colonialism, imperialism, diaspora, and nation formation.
Highlights interactions between native, non-scribal groups and Europeans during the early centuries of exploration.
Covers a wide range of approaches to defining and reading early American writing.
Looks at the development of regional spheres of influence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Serves as a vital adjunct to Castillo and Schweitzer’s ‘The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology’ (Blackwell Publishing, 2001).
Vedi indiceList of Figures.
Notes on Contributors.
Part 1. Issues and Methods.
1. Prologomenal Thinking: Some Possibilities and Limits of Comparative Desire (Teresa A. Toulouse).
2. First Peoples: An introduction to Early Native American Studies (Joanna Brooks).
3. Toward a Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literature: Empire, location, Creolization (Ralph Bauer).
4. Textual Investments: Economics and Colonial American Literatures (Michelle Burnham).
5. The Culture of Colonial America: Theology and Aesthetics (Paul Giles).
6. Teaching the Text of Early American Literature (Michael P. Clark).
7. Teaching with the New Technology: Three Intriguing Opportunities (Edward J. Gallagher).
Part II. New World Encounters.
8. Recovering Precolonial American Literary History: The Origin of Stories and the Popol Vuh (Timothy B. Powell).
9. Toltec Mirrors: European and Native Americans in Each Other's Eyes (Renee Bergland).
10. Reading for Indian Resistance (Bethany Ridgway Schneider).
11. Refocusing New Spain and Spanish Colonization: Malinche, Guadalupe, and Sor Juana (Electa Arenal and Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel).
12. British Colonial Expansion Westwards: Ireland and America (Andrew Hadfield).
13. The French Relation and its Hidden Colonial History (Sara E. Melzer).
14. Visions of the Other in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Writing on Brazil (Elena Losada Soler).
15. New World Ethnography, the Caribbean, and Behn's Oroonoko (Derek Hughes).
Part III. Negotiating Identities.
16. Gendered Voices from Lima and Mexico: Clarinda, Amarilis, and Sor Juana (Raquel Chang-Radriguez).
17. Cleansing Mexican Antiquity: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and the loa to The Divine narcissus (Viviana Diaz Balsera).
18. Hemispheric Americanism: Latin American Exiles and US Revolutionary Writings (Rodrigo Lazo).
19. Putting Together the Pieces: Notes on the Eighteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Douglas Anderson).
20. The Transoceanic Emergence of American Postcolonial Identities (Gesa Mackenthun).
Part IV. Genres and Writers: Cross-Cultural Conversations.
21. The Genres of Exploration and Conquest Literatures (E. Thomson Shields).
22. The Conversion Narrative in Early America (Lisa M. Gordis).
23. Indigenous Literacies: New England and New Spain (Hilary E. Wyss).
24. America's First Mass Media: Preaching and the Protestant Sermon Tradition (Gregory S. Jackson).
25. Neither Here Not There: Transatlantic Epistolary in Early America (Philip H. Round).
26. True Relations and Critical Fictions: The case of the Personal Narrative in Colonial American Literatures (Kathleen Donegan).
27. Cross-Cultural Conversations: The captivity Narrative (Lisa M. Logan).
28. Epic, Creoles, and nation in Spanish America (Jose Antonio Mazzotti).
29. Plainness and Paradox: Colonial Tensions in the Early New England Religious Lyric (Amy M. E. Morris).
30. Captivating Animals: Science and Spectacle in Early American natural Histories (Kathryn Napier Gray).
31. Challenging Conventional Historiography: The Roaming I/Eye in Early Colonial American Eyewitness Accounts (Jerry M. Williams).
32. Republican Theatricaity and Transatlantic Empire (Elizabeth Maddock Dillon).
33. Reading Early American Fiction (Winfried Fluck).
Index.
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by John T. Matthews (Editor)
A Companion to the Modern American Novel 1900 - 1950
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole.
Brings together 28 original essays from leading scholars
Allows readers to orient individual works and authors in their principal cultural and social contexts
Contributes to efforts to recover minority voices, such as those of African American novelists, and popular subgenres, such as detective fiction
Directs students to major relevant scholarship for further inquiry
Suggests the many ways that “modern”, “American” and “fiction” carry new meanings in the twenty-first century
Vedi indiceNotes on Contributors viii
List of Figures xiii
Preface xiv
Acknowledgments xxiii
1 An Economic History of the United States 1900–1950 1
Eric Rauchway
2 The Changing Status of Women 1900–1950 13
Nancy Woloch
3 The Status of African Americans 1900–1950 31
Matthew Pratt Guterl
4 Pragmatism, Power, and the Politics of Aesthetic Experience 56
Jeanne Follansbee Quinn
5 Class and Sex in American Fiction: From Casual Laborers to Accidental Desires 73
Michael Trask
6 Jazz: From the Gutter to the Mainstream 91
Jeremy Yudkin
7 French Visual Humanisms and the American Style 116
Justus Nieland
8 Early Literary Modernism 141
Andrew Lawson
9 Naturalism: Turn-of-the-Century Modernism 160
Donna Campbell
10 Money and Things: Capitalist Realism, Anxiety, and Social Critique in Works by Hemingway, Wharton, and Fitzgerald 181
Richard Godden
11 Chronic Modernism 202
Leigh Anne Duck
12 New Regionalisms: Literature and Uneven Development 218
Hsuan L. Hsu
13 The Possibilities of Hard-Won Land: Midwestern Modernism and the Novel 240
Edward P. Comentale
14 Writing the Modern South 266
Susan V. Donaldson
15 What Was High About Modernism? The American Novel and Modernity 282
John T. Matthews
16 African-American Modernisms 306
Michelle Stephens
17 Ethnic Modernism 324
Rita Keresztesi
18 The Proletarian Novel 353
Barbara Foley
19 Revolutionary Sentiments: Modern American Domestic Fiction and the Rise of the Welfare State 367
Susan Edmunds
20 Lesbian Fiction 1900–1950 392
Heather Love
21 The Gay Novel in the United States 1900–1950 414
Christopher Looby
22 The Popular Western 437
William R. Handley
23 Twentieth-Century American Crime and Detective Fiction 454
Charles J. Rzepka
24 What Price Hollywood? Modern American Writers and the Movies 466
Mark Eaton
25 The Belated Tradition of Asian-American Modernism 496
Delia Konzett
26 Modernism and Protopostmodernism 518
Patrick O'Donnell
27 The Modern Novel in a New World Context 535
George B. Handley
28 Reheated Figures: Five Ways of Looking at Leftovers 554
Jani Scandura
Index 579
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by Charles L. Crow (Editor)
A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states.
Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the west
Focuses on the intersections, complexities, and challenges found within and between the different historical and cultural groups that define the west's various distinctive regions
Addresses traditionally familiar icons and ideas about the west (such as cowboys, wide-open spaces, and violence) and their intersections with urbanization and other regional complexities
Features essays written by many of the leading scholars in western American cultural studies
Vedi indiceNote on Contributors.
Part I: Introduction.
1 Imagining The West (Nicolas S. Witschi).
Part II: Regions and Histories.
2 Exploration, Trading, Trapping, Travel, and Early Fiction, 1780-1850 (Edward Watts).
3 Worlds of Wonder and Ambition: Gold Rush California and the Culture of Mining Bonanzas in the North American West (Peter J. Blodgett).
4 The Literate West of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals (Tara Penry).
5 A History of American Women's Western Books, 1833-1928 (Nina Baym).
6 Literary Cultures of the American Southwest (Daniel Worden).
7 Literary Cartography of the Great Plains (Susan Naramore Maher).
8 The Literary Northern Rockies as The Last Best Place (O. Alan Weltzien).
9 North by Northwest: The Last Frontier of Western Literature (Eric Heyne).
10 Chronotopes of the Asian American West (Hsuan L. Hsu).
11 African American Literature and Culture and the American West (Michael K. Johnson).
12 Mythical Frontiers: Manifest Destiny, Aztlán, and the Cosmic Race (John L. Escobedo).
13 Writing the Indigenous West (Kathleen Washburn).
14 Framing Class in the Rural West: Cowboys, Double-Wides and McMansions (Nancy Cook).
15 Postcolonial West (Alex Hunt).
16 New West, Urban and Suburban Spaces, Postwest (Krista Comer).
Part III: Varieties and Forms.
17 What We Talk about When We Talk about Western Art (Brian W. Dippie).
18 All Hat and No Cattle: Romance, Realism, and Late-19th-Century Western American Fiction (Gary Scharnhorst).
19 The Coyote Nature of Cowboy Poetry (Barbara Barney Nelson).
20 The Wind Blew Them Away: Folksinging the West, 1880-1930 (David Fenimore).
21 Autobiography (Gioia Woods).
22 Housing the American West: Western Women’s Literature, Early Twentieth Century and Beyond (Cathryn Halverson).
23 The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree: Western American Literature and Environmental Literary Criticism (Hal Crimmel).
24 Detective Fiction (Nicolas S. Witschi).
25 The American Western Film (Corey K. Creekmur).
26 Post-Western Cinema (Neil Campbell).
Part IV: Issues, Themes, Case Studies.
27 America Unscripted: Performing the Wild West (Jefferson D. Slagle).
28 Revising Public Memory in the American West: Native American Performance in the Ramona Outdoor Play (Karen E. Ramirez).
29 Omnimedia Marketing: The Case of The Lone Ranger (Chadwick Allen).
30 The Nuclear Southwest (Audrey Goodman).
31 Ranging Over Stegner’s Arid West: Mobility as Adaptive Strategy (Bonney MacDonald).
32 The Global West: Temporality, Spatial Politics, and Literary Production (Susan Kollin).
33 Tumbling Dice: The Problem of Las Vegas (Stephen Tatum and Nathaniel Lewis).
Index.
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by David Krasner (Editor)
A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007
This Companion provides an original and authoritative survey of twentieth-century American drama studies, written by some of the best scholars and critics in the field.
Balances consideration of canonical material with discussion of works by previously marginalized playwrights
Includes studies of leading dramatists, such as Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill and Gertrude Stein
Allows readers to make new links between particular plays and playwrights
Examines the movements that framed the century, such as the Harlem Renaissance, lesbian and gay drama, and the solo performances of the 1980s and 1990s
Situates American drama within larger discussions about American ideas and culture
Vedi indiceList of Illustrations.
Notes on Contributors.
Preface: Molly Smith (Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.).
Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction: The Changing Perceptions of American Drama: David Krasner (Yale University).
2. American Drama 1900-1915: Mark Evans Bryan (Dennison University).
3. Ethnic American Drama: Rachel Shteir (DePaul University).
4. Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell: Staging Feminism and Modernism, 1915-1941: J. Ellen Gainor (Cornell University) and Jerry Dickey (University of Arizona).
5. American Experimentalism, American Expressionism, and Early O'Neill: DeAnna M. Toten Beard (Baylor University).
6. Many-Faceted Mirror: Drama as Reflection of Uneasy Modernity in the Twenties: Felicia Hardison Londré (University of Missouri-Kansas City).
7. Playwrights and Plays of the Harlem Renaissance: Annemarie Bean (Williams College).
8. Reading Across the 1930s: Anne Fletcher (Southern Illinois University-Carbondale).
9. Famous Unknowns: The Dramas of Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein: Sarah Bay-Cheng (Colgate University).
10. Eugene O'Neill: American Drama and American Modernism: David Krasner (Yale University).
11. Fissures Beneath the Surface: Drama in the 1940s and 1950s: Thomas Adler (Purdue University).
12. Tennessee Williams: Brenda Murphy (University of Connecticut).
13. Expression and Exploring Faith: Religious Drama in America: Peter Civetta (Cornell University).
14. The Jewishness of Arthur Miller: Murray Biggs (Yale University).
15. Drama of the 1960s: Christopher Olsen (York College and Millerville University).
16. Fifteen-Love, Thirty-Love: Edward Albee: Steven Price (University of Wales, Bangor).
17. The Drama of the Black Arts Movement: Mike Sell (Indiana University of Pennsylvania).
18. Sam Shepard and the American Sunset: Enchantment of the Mythic West: Leslie A. Wade (Louisiana State University).
19. Staging the Binary: Asian American Theatre in the Late Twentieth Century: Daphne Lei (University of California, Irvine).
20. August Wilson: Harry J. Elam, Jr. (Stanford University).
21. Native American Drama: Ann Haugo (Illinois State University).
22. John Guare and the Popular Culture Hype of Celebrity Status: Gene A. Plunka (University of Memphis).
23. Writing Beyond Borders: A Survey of U. S. Latina/o Drama: Tiffany Ana Lopez (University of California, Riverside).
24. Off the Porch and into the Scene: Southern Women Playwrights Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, Rebecca Gilman and Jane Martin: Linda Rohrer Paige (Georgia Southern University).
25. David Mamet: America on the American Stage: Janet V. Haedicke (University of Louisiana at Monroe).
26. 1970-1990: Disillusionment, Identity, and Discovery: Mark Fearnow (Hanover College).
27. Maria Irene Fornes: Andrew Sofer (Boston College).
28. From Eccentricity to Endurance: Jewish Comedy and the Art of Affirmation: Julia Listengarten (University of Central Florida).
29. Repercussions and Remainders in the Plays of Paul Vogel: An Essay in Five Moments: Ann Pellegrini (New York University).
30. Lesbian and Gay Drama: Jill Dolan (University of Texas).
31. American Drama of the 1990s On- and Off-Broadway: June Schlueter (Lafayette College).
32. Solo Performance Drama: The Self as Other? Stephen Bottoms (University of Glasgow).
33. Experimental Drama at the End of the Century: Ehren Fordyce (Stanford University).
Index
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by David Seed (Editor) 2009
A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Through a wide-ranging series of essays and relevant readings, A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction presents an overview of American fiction published since the conclusion of the First World War.
Features a wide-ranging series of essays by American, British, and European specialists in a variety of literary fields
Written in an approachable and accessible style
Covers both classic literary figures and contemporary novelists
Provides extensive suggestions for further reading at the end of each essay
Vedi indiceNotes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
David Seed
Part I Genres, Traditions, and Subject Areas 9
1 U.S. Modernism 11
Susan Hegeman
2 The City Novel 24
James R. Giles
3 The Western 36
Neil Campbell
4 Postmodern U.S. Fiction 48
Hans Bertens
5 Modern Gothic 60
Marilyn Michaud
6 The Short Story 72
Mark Whalan
7 Southern Fiction 84
Sharon Monteith
8 Jewish American Fiction 96
David Brauner
9 Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me: Modern African American Fiction 109
A. Robert Lee
10 U.S. Detective Fiction 122
Cynthia S. Hamilton
11 Hard-Boiled/Noir Fiction 135
Lee Horsley
12 Chicano Fiction 147
Helen Oakley
13 Black Humor Fiction 159
David Seed
14 Fiction on the Vietnam War 171
Philip Melling and Subarno Chattarji
15 The Rediscovery of the Native American 183
Joy Porter
16 Trash Fiction 195
Stacey Olster
Part II Selected Writers 207
17 Edith Wharton 209
Pamela Knights
18 Willa Cather's Entropology: Permanence and Transmission 219
Guy J. Reynolds
19 Gertrude Stein and Seriality 229
Ulla Haselstein
20 Ernest Hemingway 240
Peter Messent
21 John Dos Passos 251
Andrew Hook and David Seed
22 Thomas Wolfe 261
Anne Ricketson Zahlan
23 F. Scott Fitzgerald 271
William Blazek
24 Zora Neale Hurston 282
Lovalerie King
25 Theodore Dreiser 292
Clare Virginia Eby
26 William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha 302
Charles A. Peek
27 H.D.'s Visionary Prose 313
Rachel Connor
28 John Steinbeck 322
Brian Railsback
29 Raymond Chandler 332
Sean McCann
30 Richard Wright 342
Tara T. Green
31 Ralph Ellison 352
Rachel Farebrother
32 James Baldwin 361
D. Quentin Miller
33 Vladimir Nabokov 369
Barbara Wyllie
34 Norman Mailer 377
Michael K. Glenday
35 William S. Burroughs 386
Davis Schneiderman
36 Saul Bellow 395
Michael Austin
37 Gore Vidal 403
Heather Neilson
38 Joseph Heller 411
David M. Craig
39 Kurt Vonnegut 420
Jerome Klinkowitz
40 Thomas Pynchon 428
Ian Copestake
41 Ishmael Reed: American Iconoclast 436
Darryl Dickson-Carr
42 Joyce Carol Oates 445
Gavin Cologne-Brookes
43 Philip Roth 454
Timothy Parrish
44 The Fiction of John Updike: Timely and Timeless 462
Brian Keener
45 Maxine Hong Kingston 471
Helena Grice
46 Toni Morrison 480
Jennifer Terry
47 Alice Walker 489
Maria Lauret
48 Don DeLillo 497
Mark Osteen
49 Gerald Vizenor: Postindian Gamester 505
A. Robert Lee
50 Bret Easton Ellis 514
James Annesley
51 Amy Tan: American Circumstances and Chinese Character 522
Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson
52 Paul Auster: Poet of Solitude 530
Mark Brown
53 Bharati Mukherjee 539
Judie Newman
Index 547
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by Donald D. Kummings (Editor)
A Companion to Walt Whitman
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005
Comprising more than 30 substantial essays written by leading scholars, this companion constitutes an exceptionally broad-ranging and in-depth guide to one of America’s greatest poets.
Makes the best and most up-to-date thinking on Whitman available to students
Designed to make readers more aware of the social and cultural contexts of Whitman’s work, and of the experimental nature of his writing
Includes contributions devoted to specific poetry and prose works, a compact biography of the poet, and a bibliography
Vedi indiceNotes on Contributors ix
List of Illustrations xiv
Abbreviations of Standard Whitman Works xvi
Introduction 1
Donald D. Kummings
Part I: The Life 9
1 Whitman's Life and Work, 1819–92 11
Gregory Eiselein
Part II: The Cultural Context 27
2 Journalism 29
Douglas A. Noverr
3 The City 42
William Pannapacker
4 Labor and Laborers 60
M. Wynn Thomas
5 Politics 76
Gary Wihl
6 Oratory 87
J. R. LeMaster
7 Slavery and Race 101
Martin Klammer
8 Nation and Identity 122
Eldrid Herrington
9 A Theory of Organic Democracy 136
Stephen John Mack
10 Imperialism 151
Walter Grunzweig
11 Sexuality 164
Maire Mullins
12 Gender 180
Sherry Ceniza
13 Religion and the Poet-Prophet 197
David Kuebrich
14 Science and Pseudoscience 216
Harold Aspiz
15 Nineteenth-century Popular Culture 233
Brett Barney
16 Opera and Other Kinds of Music 257
Kathy Rugoff
17 Nineteenth-century Visual Culture 272
Ed Folsom
18 Civil War 290
Luke Mancuso
19 Nature 311
M. Jimmie Killingsworth
20 Death and the Afterlife 325
William J. Scheick
21 Twentieth-century Mass Media Appearances 341
Andrew Jewell and Kenneth M. Price
Part III: The Literary Context 359
22 Language 361
Tyler Hoffman
23 Style 377
James Perrin Warren
24 Literary Contemporaries 392
Joann P. Krieg
25 The Publishing History of Leaves of Grass 409
Amanda Gailey
26 The Poet's Reception and Legacy 439
Andrew C. Higgins
Part IV: Texts 455
Works of Poetry 456
27 The First (1855) Edition of Leaves of Grass 457
Edward Whitley
28 Song of Myself 471
Kerry C. Larson
29 Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 484
James Dougherty
30 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 496
Howard Nelson
31 Live Oak, with Moss, Calamus, and Children of Adam 508
Steven Olsen-Smith
32 Civil War Poems in Drum-Taps and Memories of President Lincoln 522
Ted Genoways
Prose Works 539
33 Democratic Vistas 540
Robert Leigh Davis
34 Specimen Days 553
Martin G. Murray
35 The Prose Writings: Selected Secondary Sources 566
Donald D. Kummings
Index 588
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by Richard C. Moreland (Editor)
A Companion to William Faulkner
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006
This comprehensive Companion to William Faulkner reflects the current dynamic state of Faulkner studies.
Explores the contexts, criticism, genres and interpretations of Nobel Prize-winning writer William Faulkner, arguably the greatest American novelist.
Comprises original essays written by leading scholars.
Guides readers through the plethora of critical approaches to Faulkner over the past few decades.
Exemplifies current Faulkner scholarship, as well as critically reflecting on previous interpretations.
Vedi indiceNotes on Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Richard C. Moreland.
Part I: Contexts:.
1. A Difficult Economy: Faulkner and the Poetics of Plantation Labor: Richard Godden (University of Sussex).
2. We're Trying Hard as Hell to Free Ourselves: Southern History and Race in the Making of William Faulkner's Literary Terrain: Grace Elizabeth Hale (University of Virginia) and Robert Jackson (University of Virginia).
3. A Loving Gentleman and the Corncob Man: Faulkner, Gender, Sexuality, and The Reivers: Anne Goodwyn Jones (University of Mississippi).
4. C'est Vraiment Dégueulasse: Meaning and Ending in A bout de souffle and If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem: Catherine Gunther Kodat (Hamilton College).
5. The Synthesis of Marx and Freud in Recent Faulkner Criticism: Michael Zeitlin (University of British Columbia).
6. Faulkner’s Lives: Jay Parini (Middlebury College).
Part II: Questions:.
7. Reflections on Language and Narrative: Owen Robinson (University of Essex).
8. Race as Fact and Fiction in William Faulkner: Barbara Ladd (Emory University).
9. Why Are You So Black? Faulkner's Whiteface Minstrels, Primitivism, and Perversion: John N. Duvall (Purdue University).
10. Shifting Sands: The Myth of Class Mobility: Julia Leyda (Sophia University, Tokyo).
11. Faulkner’s Families: Arthur F. Kinney (University of Massachusetts).
12. Changing the Subject of Place in Faulkner: Cheryl Lester (University of Kansas).
13. The State: Ted Atkinson (Augusta State University).
14. Violence in Faulkner’s Major Novels: Lothar Hönnighausen (University of Bonn).
15. An Impossible Resignation: William Faulkner’s Post-Colonial Imagination: Sean Latham (University of Tulsa).
16. Religion: Desire and Ideology: Leigh Anne Duck (University of Memphis).
17. Cinematic Fascination in Light in August: Peter Lurie (University of Richmond).
18. Faulkner’s Brazen Yoke: Pop Art, Modernism, and the Myth of the Great Divide: Vincent Allan King (Black Hills State University).
Part III: Genres and Forms:.
19. Faulkner’s Genre Experiments: Thomas L. McHaney (author).
20. “Make It New”: Faulkner and Modernism: Philip Weinstein (Swarthmore College).
21. Faulkner’s Versions of Pastoral, Gothic, and the Sublime: Susan V. Donaldson (College of William and Mary).
22. Faulkner, Trauma, and the Uses of Crime Fiction: Greg Forter (University of South Carolina).
23. William Faulkner’s Short Stories: Hans H. Skei (University of Oslo).
24. Faulkner’s Non-Fiction: Noel Polk (Mississippi State University).
25. Faulkner’s Texts: Noel Polk (Mississippi State University).
Part IV: Sample Readings:.
26. “By It I Would Stand or Fall”: Life and Death in As I Lay Dying: Donald M. Kartiganer (University of Mississippi).
27. Faulkner and the Southern Arts of Mystification in Absalom, Absalom!: John Carlos Rowe (University of Southern California).
28. “The Cradle of Your Nativity”: Codes of Class Culture and Southern Desire in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy: Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber (George Washington University).
Part V: After Faulkner:.
29. “He Doth Bestride the Narrow World Like a Colossus”: Faulkner’s Critical Reception: Timothy P. Caron (California State University).
30. Faulkner, Latin America, and the Caribbean: Influence, Politics, and Academic Disciplines: Deborah Cohn (Indiana University).
31. Faulkner’s Continuance: Patrick O’Donnell (Michigan State University).
Index
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Keith Newlin
The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011
After its heyday in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, naturalism, a genre that typically depicts human beings as the product of biological and environmental forces over which they have little control, was supplanted by modernism, a genre in which writers experimented with innovations in form and content. In the last decade, the movement is again attracting spirited scholarly debate. The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism takes stock of the best new research in the field through collecting twenty-eight original essays drawing upon recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies. The contributors offer an authoritative and in-depth reassessment of writers from Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and Jack London to Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, John Steinbeck, Joyce Carol Oates, and Cormac McCarthy. One set of essays focus on the genre itself, exploring the historical contexts that gave birth to it, the problem of definition, its interconnections with other genres, the scientific and philosophical ideas that motivate naturalist authors, and the continuing presence of naturalism in twenty-first century fiction. Others examine the tensions within the genre-the role of women and African-American writers, depictions of sexuality, the problem of race, and the critique of commodity culture and class. A final set of essays looks beyond the works to consider the role of the marketplace in the development of naturalism, the popular and critical response to the works, and the influence of naturalism in the other arts. (Da sito Oxford University Press)
Vedi indiceIntroduction
Keith Newlin
Part 1: Contexts
1. Romancing the Machine: American Naturalism in Transatlantic Context
Zena Meadowsong
2. The Response to Power in American Literary Naturalism: Visions and Revisions that Transformed a Narrative Mode
Richard Lehan
3. Nature in Naturalism
Bert Bender
Part 2: Naturalism and Genre
4. Defining American Literary Naturalism
Eric Carl Link
5. Sand in Your Mouth: Naturalism and Other Genres
June Howard
6. The Documentary Strategies of Naturalism
Keith Newlin
Part 3: The Scientific and Philosophic Background
7. Determinism, Free will, and Moral Responsibility in American Literary Naturalism
Ian F. Roberts
8. 'First Principles of Morals': Evolutionary Morality and American Naturalism
Rick Armstrong
9. Naturalism and Religion
Steven Frye
10. Things Fall Apart: Degeneration and Atavism in American Literary Naturalism
Gina M. Rossetti
11. American Literary Naturalism and Psychology
Stephen C. Brennan
12. American Naturalism and Modern Evolutionary Psychology
Jeff P. Turpin
Part 4: Naturalist Tensions
13. Women Writers and Naturalism
Donna M. Campbell
14. American Literary Naturalism and Sexuality
Linda Kornasky
15. African American Writers and Naturalism
John Dudley
16. Naturalism and Racialism
Jeanne Campbell Reesman
17. Naturalism and Commodity Culture
Mary E. Papke
18. Naturalism and Class
Jude Davies
19. The Grotesque City, the City of Excess, and the City of Exile
James Giles
20. Naturalism and Crime
Gary Scharnhorst
Part 5: Naturalism and the Marketplace
21. Naturalist Authors and the American Literary Marketplace
Charles Johanningsmeier
22. Consolation, Affirmation, and Convention: The Popular Reception of American Naturalist Texts
Carol S. Loranger
23. Editing Naturalism
Kevin J. Hayes
24. Refashioning American Literary Naturalism: Critical Trends at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Christophe Den Tandt
Part 6: Naturalism and the Other Arts
25. Sad Endings and Negative Heroes: The Naturalist Tradition in American Drama
Robert M. Dowling
26. Naturalism and Poetry
Christopher Beyers
27. Naturalism and the Visual Arts
Donald Pizer
28. American Literary Naturalism and Film Noir
Jeff Jaeckle
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Kevin J. Hayes
The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008
The Oxford Handbook of Early American Literature is a major new reference work that provides the best single-volume source of original scholarship on early American literature. Comprised of twenty-seven chapters written by experts in their fields, this work presents an authoritative, in-depth, and up-to-date assessment of a crucial area within literary studies.
Organized primarily in terms of genre, the chapters include original research on key concepts, as well as analysis of interesting texts from throughout colonial America. Separate chapters are devoted to literary genres of great importance at the time of their composition that have been neglected in recent decades, such as histories, promotion literature, and scientific writing. New interpretations are offered on the works of Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards and Dr. Alexander Hamilton while lesser known figures are also brought to light. Newly vital areas like print culture and natural history are given full treatment. As with other Oxford Handbooks, the contributors cover the field in a comprehensive yet accessible way that is suitable for those wishing to gain a good working knowledge of an area of study and where it's headed. (da sito Oxford University Press)
Vedi indiceNotes on the Contributors
Introduction
Part I Exploration and Promotion
1. The Literature of Exploration - E. Thomson Shields, Jr.
2. Captain John Smith - Steven Olsen-Smith
3. Promotion Literature - Karen Schramm
Part II Devotional Literature
4. Puritan Historians and Historiography - Naoki Onishi
5. New England Poetry - Ronald Bosco and Jillmarie Murphy
6. Captivity Literature - Lorrayne Carroll
7. Jonathan Edwards and The Great Awakening - Thomas S. Kidd
Part III The Augustan Age in America
8. Augustan American Verse - Chris Beyers
9. Picaresque Travel Narratives -Daniel Royot
10. Dr. Alexander Hamilton - Kevin J. Hayes
11. Indian Voices in Early American Literature - Joshua David Bellin
12. Scientific Discourse - Susan Scott Parrish
Part IV Contexts of Reading
13. Newspapers and Magazines - Christine Modey
14. Print and Manuscript Culture - Carla Mulford
15. Early American Libraries - Sarah Fatherly
Part V Expressions of Individuality
16. Diaries - Kevin Berland
17. Early American Autobiography - Susan Clair Imbarrato
18. Early American Slave Narratives - April Langley
19. Benjamin Franklin - Kevin J. Hayes
Part VI The Revolutionary Era
20. Early American Drama - Jason Shaffer
21. The Literature of Politics - Frank Shuffelton
22. Revolutionary Verse - Colin Wells
Part VII Late Eighteenth-Century Prose
23. The Beginnings of the American Novel - Melissa J. Homestead
24. Crèvecoeurs Letters from an American Farmer - David J. Carlson
25. History as Literature - Ed White
26. The Place of Natural History in Early American Literature - Kevin J. Hayes
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Cary Nelson
The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012
The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry provides a comprehensive approach to the debates that have defined the study of American verse of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Topics include: the influence of jazz on beat poetry; surrealist influences on American verse; disability poetics; Asian American poetry; and more. (da sito Oxford University Press)
Vedi indiceList of Contributors
Part I
1. A Century of Innovation: American Poetry from 1900 to the Present
Cary Nelson
Part II
2. Social Texts and Poetic Texts: Poetry and Cultural Studies
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
3. American Indian Poetry at the Dawn of Modernism
Robert Dale Parker
4. Jeweled Bindings: Modernist Women's Poetry and the Limits of Sentimentality
Melissa Girard
5. Hired Men and Hired Women: Modern American Poetry and the Labor Problem
John Marsh
6. Economics and Gender in Mina Loy, Lola Ridge, and Marianne Moore
Linda A. Kinnahan
7. Poetry and Rhetoric: Modernism and Beyond
Peter Nicholls
8. Cézanne's Ideal of Realization: A Useful Analogy for the Spirit of Modernity in American Poetry
Charles Altieri
9. Stepping Out, Sitting In: Modern Poetry's Counterpoint with Jazz and the Blues
Edward Brunner
10. Out With the Crowd: Modern American Poets Speaking to Mass Culture
Tim Newcomb
11. Exquisite Corpse: Surrealist Influence on the American Poetry Scene, 1920-1960
Susan Rosenbaum
12. Material Concerns: Incidental Poetry, Popular Culture, and Ordinary Readers in Modern America
Mike Chasar
13. With Ambush and Stratagem: American Poetry in the Age of Pure War
Philip Metres
14. The Fight and the Fiddle in Twentieth-Century African American Poetry
Karen Jackson Ford
15. Asian American Poetry
Josephine Park
16. The Pardon of Speech: The Psychoanalysis of Modern American Poetry
Walter Kalaidjian
17. American Poetry, Prayer, and the News
Jahan Ramazani
18. The Tranquilized Fifties: Forms of Dissent in Postwar American Poetry
Michael Thurston
19. The End of the End of Poetic Ideology, 1960
Al Filreis
20. Fieldwork in New American Poetry: From Cosmology to Discourse
Lytle Shaw
21. Do our chains offend you?: The Poetry of American Political Prisoners
Mark W. Van Wienen
22. Disability Poetics
Michael Davidson
23. Green Reading: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry and Environmental Criticism
Lynn Keller
24. Transnationalism and Diaspora in American Poetry
Timothy Yu
25. Internationally Known: The Black Arts Movement and U.S. Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop
James Smethurst
26. Minding Machines / Machining Minds: Writing (at) the Human-Machine Interface
Adalaide Morris
Index
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Russ Castronovo
The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Oxford etc.: Oxford University Press, 2012
The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth Century American Literature offers a cutting-edge assessment of the period's literature, providing readers with practical insights and proactive strategies for exploring novels, poems, and other literary creations.
( da sito Oxford University Press)
Vedi indiceIntroduction: Shifts, Zigzags, Impacts
Russ Castronovo
Shifts
1. Paul Giles, Antipodean American Geography: Washington Irving's Globular Narratives
2. John Ernest, The Art of Chaos: Community and African American Literary Traditions
3. Jordan Stein, Are 'American Novels' Novels?: Mardi and the Problem of Boring Books
4. Ellen Samuels, Reading Race through Disability: Slavery and Agency in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins
5. Jesse Alemán, The Invention of Mexican America
6. Nancy Bentley, Creole Kinship: Privacy and the Novel in the New World
7. Shelley Streeby, Looking at State Violence: Lucy Parsons, José Martí, and Haymarket
8. Anna Brickhouse, Transatlantic vs. Hemispheric: Toni Morrison's Long Nineteenth Century
Zigzags
9. Robert S. Levine, Temporality, Race, and Empire in Cooper's The Deerslayer: The Beginning of the End
10. Jeffrey Steele, The Visible and Invisible City: Antebellum Writers and Urban Space
11. Colleen Glenney Boggs, Animals and the Formation of Liberal Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
12. Shirley Samuels, Archives of Publishing and Gender: Historical Codes in Literary Analysis
13. Gregory S. Jackson, The Novel as Board Game: Homiletic Identification and Forms of Interactive Narrative
14. Maurice S. Lee, Skepticism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Philosophy
15. Jared Hickman, On the Redundancy of Transnational American Studies
Impacts
16. Travis Foster, How to Read: Regionalism and the Ladies' Home Journal
17. Elisa Tamarkin, Literature and the News
18. Paul Gilmore, Reading Minds in the Nineteenth Century
19. Elizabeth Duquette, Making an Example: American Literature as Philosophy
20. James Dawes, Abolition and Activism: The Present Uses of Literary Criticism
21. Susan Gillman, Whose Protest Novel? Ramona, the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Indian
22. Stephanie Lemenager, Nineteenth-Century American Literature without Nature? Rethinking Environmental Criticism
23. Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson, Action, Action, Action: Nineteenth-Century Literature for Twenty-first-Century Citizenship?
Index