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This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States.Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and moreDemonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafterOffers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers and issues; and contemporary theories and practicesEnables students and researchers to generate richer, more varied and more comprehensive readings of American literature
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A COMPANION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE The expansive Companion to American Literature and Culture provides a set of fresh perspectives, some related, some dissonant, on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. Written by experts in the field, the Companion embraces the many different voices that constitute American literature, from slave narratives and oral tales to regional writing and literature of the environment. It demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter. The three sections of the book offer three distinctive paradigms for thinking about American literature. The first section draws attention to the ways in which American literature has been constructed and studied at differing moments and by different groups of people. The second looks at the literary production of individual authors and at groups of writers who interacted with one another. The final section examines the interactions between contemporary forms of creative expression and the theories that inform and are, in turn, shaped by such writing.
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A COMPANION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE The expansive Companion to American Literature and Culture provides a set of fresh perspectives, some related, some dissonant, on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States. Written by experts in the field, the Companion embraces the many different voices that constitute American literature, from slave narratives and oral tales to regional writing and literature of the environment. It demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter. The three sections of the book offer three distinctive paradigms for thinking about American literature. The first section draws attention to the ways in which American literature has been constructed and studied at differing moments and by different groups of people. The second looks at the literary production of individual authors and at groups of writers who interacted with one another. The final section examines the interactions between contemporary forms of creative expression and the theories that inform and are, in turn, shaped by such writing.
Author Biography
Paul Lauter is Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature Emeritus 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 seventh edition.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors x Introduction 1Paul Lauter Part A Genealogies of American Literary Study 7 1 The Emergence of the Literatures of the United States 9Emory Elliott 2 Politics, Sentiment, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America 26John Carlos Rowe 3 Making It New: Constructions of Modernism 40Carla Kaplan 4 Academicizing "American Literature" 57Elizabeth Renker 5 Cold War and Culture War 72Christopher Newfield 6 Re-Historicizing Literature 96T.V. Reed 7 Multiculturalism and Forging New Canons 110Shelley Streeby Part B Writers and Issues 123 8 Indigenous Oral Traditions of North America, Then and Now 125Lisa Brooks (Abenaki) 9 The New Worlds and the Old: Transatlantic Politics of Conversion 143Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer 10 Unspeakable Fears: Politics and Style in the Enlightenment 160Frank Shuffelton 11 Slave Narrative and Captivity Narrative: American Genres 179Gordon M. Sayre 12 The Early Republic: Forms and Readers 192Trish Loughran 13 "Indians" Constructed and Speaking 206Scott Richard Lyons 14 Sentiment and Style 221Tara Penry 15 Transcendental Politics 237Paul Lauter 16 Melville, Whitman, and the Tribulations of Democracy 250Betsy Erkkila 17 Emily Dickinson and Her Peers 284Paula Bernat Bennett 18 Race and Literary Politics 316Frances Smith Foster and Cassandra Jackson 19 American Regionalism 328Susan K. Harris 20 Magazines and Fictions 339Ellen Gruber Garvey 21 Realism and Victorian Protestantism in African American Literature 354Phillip M. Richards 22 The Maturation of American Fictions 364Gary Scharnhorst 23 Making It New: Constructions of Modernisms 377Heinz Ickstadt 24 Wests, Westerns, Westerners 394Martha Viehmann 25 The Early Modern Writers of the US South 410John Lowe 26 Writers on the Left 427Alan Wald 27 From Objectivism to the Haight 441Charles Molesworth 28 New Aestheticisms: the Artfulness of Art 458Stephen Burt 29 Drama in American Culture 478Brenda Murphy Part C Contemporary Theories and Practices 491 30 Constructions of "Ethnicity" and "Diasporas" 493Aviva Taubenfeld 31 Narrating Terror and Trauma: Racial Formations and "Homeland Security" in Ethnic American Literature 508Shirley Geok-lin Lim 32 Feminisms and Literatures 528Deborah S. Rosenfelt 33 Blackness/Whiteness 563James Smethurst 34 Borderlands: Ethnicity, Multiculturalism, and Hybridity 576Ana Maria Manzanas and Jesús Benito Sánchez 35 Literature-and-Environment Studies and the Influence of the Environmental Justice Movement 593Joni Adamson 36 Endowed by Their Creator: Queer American Literature 608David Bergman 37 Contemporary Native American Fiction as Resistance Literature 622Arnold Krupat and Michael A. Elliott 38 From Virgin Land to Ground Zero: Interrogating the Mythological Foundations of the Master Fiction of the Homeland Security State 637Donald Pease Afterword 655Paul Lauter Index 657
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"I believe this book is well worth dipping into. It is, I suggest, a volume of solid scholarship that should have a significant impact in what is already a quite crowded publishing area. It is highly recommended, if only for the reason that—as Lauter explains—'the literatures of this America illuminate as nothing else has done the aspirations, the contradictions, the dangers and possibilities of this society'" (M/C Reviews, November 2010)
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"I believe this book is well worth dipping into. It is, I suggest, a volume of solid scholarship that should have a significant impact in what is already a quite crowded publishing area. It is highly recommended, if only for the reason that--as Lauter explains--'the literatures of this America illuminate as nothing else has done the aspirations, the contradictions, the dangers and possibilities of this society'" ( M/C Reviews , November 2010)
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"I believe this book is well worth dipping into. It is, I suggest, a volume of solid scholarship that should have a significant impact in what is already a quite crowded publishing area. It is highly recommended, if only for the reason that--as Lauter explains--'the literatures of this America illuminate as nothing else has done the aspirations, the contradictions, the dangers and possibilities of this society'" ( M/C Reviews , November 2010)
Details ISBN1119685656 Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 1119685656 ISBN-13 9781119685654 Format Paperback Imprint Wiley-Blackwell DEWEY 810.9 Pages 704 Publication Date 2020-09-24 UK Release Date 2020-09-24 AU Release Date 2020-09-21 NZ Release Date 2020-09-21 Author Paul Lauter Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd Series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Place of Publication Hoboken Alternative 9780631208921 Edited by Paul Lauter Audience Professional & Vocational US Release Date 2020-09-24 Country of Publication United Kingdom We've got this
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