A companion to American literature and culture

著者

• Lauter, Paul

書誌事項

A companion to American literature and culture

edited by Paul Lauter

（Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 70）

Wiley Blackwell, 2020

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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 more Demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter Offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers and issues; and contemporary theories and practices Enables students and researchers to generate richer, more varied and more comprehensive readings of American literature

目次

List of Contributors x 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-Century America 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 Now 125 Lisa Brooks (Abenaki) 9 The New Worlds and the Old: Transatlantic Politics of Conversion 143 Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer 10 Unspeakable Fears: Politics and Style in the Enlightenment 160 Frank Shuffelton 11 Slave Narrative and Captivity Narrative: American Genres 179 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 Democracy 250 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 American Literature 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 Literature 508 Shirley Geok-lin Lim 32 Feminisms and Literatures 528 Deborah S. Rosenfelt 33 Blackness/Whiteness 563 James Smethurst 34 Borderlands: Ethnicity, Multiculturalism, and Hybridity 576 Ana Maria Manzanas and Jesus Benito Sanchez 35 Literature-and-Environment Studies and the Influence of the Environmental Justice Movement 593 Joni Adamson 36 Endowed by Their Creator: Queer American Literature 608 David Bergman 37 Contemporary Native American Fiction as Resistance Literature 622 Arnold 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 637 Donald Pease Afterword 655 Paul Lauter Index 657

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BC04527972
• ISBN:
  • 9781119685654
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Hoboken, N.J.
• ページ数/冊数: xviii, 686 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 810.9
• 件名:
  • LCSH : American literature -- History and criticism
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA33407255