Lauter A Companion to American Literature and Culture

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-2063-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 708 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectiveson the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now theUnited States.
* Highlights the diverse voices that constitute Americanliterature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regionalwriting, literature of the environment, and more
* Demonstrates that American literature was multicultural beforeEuropeans arrived on the continent, and even more sothereafter
* Offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about Americanliterature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study;writers and issues; and contemporary theories and practices
* Enables students and researchers to generate richer, morevaried and more comprehensive readings of American literature

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lauter, Paul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors xi
Introduction 1
Paul Lauter
Part A Genealogies of American Literary Study 7
1 The Emergence of the Literatures of the United States 9
Emory Elliott
2 Politics, Sentiment, and Literature in Nineteenth-CenturyAmerica 26
John Carlos Rowe
3 Making It New: Constructions of Modernism 40
Carla Kaplan
4 Academicizing "American Literature" 57
Elizabeth Renker
5 Cold War and Culture War 72
Christopher Newfield
6 Re-Historicizing Literature 96
T.V. Reed
7 Multiculturalism and Forging New Canons 110
Shelley Streeby
Part B Writers and Issues 123
8 Indigenous Oral Traditions of North America, Then and Now125
Lisa Brooks (Abenaki)
9 The New Worlds and the Old: Transatlantic Politics ofConversion 143
Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer
10 Unspeakable Fears: Politics and Style in the Enlightenment160
Frank Shuffelton
11 Slave Narrative and Captivity Narrative: American Genres179
Gordon M. Sayre
12 The Early Republic: Forms and Readers 192
Trish Loughran
13 "Indians" Constructed and Speaking 206
Scott Richard Lyons
14 Sentiment and Style 221
Tara Penry
15 Transcendental Politics 237
Paul Lauter
16 Melville, Whitman, and the Tribulations of Democracy250
Betsy Erkkila
17 Emily Dickinson and Her Peers 284
Paula Bernat Bennett
18 Race and Literary Politics 316
Frances Smith Foster and Cassandra Jackson
19 American Regionalism 328
Susan K. Harris
20 Magazines and Fictions 339
Ellen Gruber Garvey
21 Realism and Victorian Protestantism in African AmericanLiterature 354
Phillip M. Richards
22 The Maturation of American Fictions 364
Gary Scharnhorst
23 Making It New: Constructions of Modernisms 377
Heinz Ickstadt
24 Wests, Westerns, Westerners 394
Martha Viehmann
25 The Early Modern Writers of the US South 410
John Lowe
26 Writers on the Left 427
Alan Wald
27 From Objectivism to the Haight 441
Charles Molesworth
28 New Aestheticisms: the Artfulness of Art 458
Stephen Burt
29 Drama in American Culture 478
Brenda Murphy
Part C Contemporary Theories and Practices 491
30 Constructions of "Ethnicity" and"Diasporas" 493
Aviva Taubenfeld
31 Narrating Terror and Trauma: Racial Formations and"Homeland Security" in Ethnic American Literature508
Shirley Geok-lin Lim
32 Feminisms and Literatures 528
Deborah S. Rosenfelt
33 Blackness/Whiteness 563
James Smethurst
34 Borderlands: Ethnicity, Multiculturalism, and Hybridity576
Ana Maria Manzanas and Jesús Benito Sánchez
35 Literature-and-Environment Studies and the Influence of theEnvironmental Justice Movement 593
Joni Adamson
36 Endowed by Their Creator: Queer American Literature 608
David Bergman
37 Contemporary Native American Fiction as Resistance Literature622
Arnold Krupat and Michael A. Elliott
38 From Virgin Land to Ground Zero: Interrogating theMythological Foundations of the Master Fiction
of the Homeland Security State 637
Donald Pease
Afterword 655
Paul Lauter
Index 657

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Lauter is Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He has served as President of the American Studies Association (of the United States), and he is General Editor of the groundbreaking Heath Anthology of American Literature, now in its sixth edition.