A companion to American literature / general editor: Susan Belasco.

• Volume I. Origins-1820 / edited by Theresa Strouth Gaul -- Volume II. 1820-1914 / edited by Linck Johnson -- Volume III. 1914-Present / edited by Michael Soto.
• Volume I: Origins-1820. General Introduction / Susan Belasco -- Introduction to Volume I / Theresa Strouth Gaul -- 1. The Storyteller's Universe: Indigenous Oral Literatures / Kenneth M. Roemer -- 2. Cross-Cultural Encounters in Early American Literatures: From Incommensurability to Exchange / Kelly Wisecup -- 3. Settlement Literatures Before and Beyond the Stories of Nations / Tamara Harvey -- 4. The Puritan Culture of Letters / Abram Van Engen -- 5. Writing the Salem Witch Trials / Peter J. Grund -- 6. Captivity: From Babylon to Indian Country / Andrew Newman -- 7. Africans in Early America / Cassander L. Smith -- 8. Migration, Exile, Imperialism: The Non-English Literatures of Early America Reconsidered / Patrick M. Erben -- 9. Environment and Environmentalism / Timothy Sweet -- 10. Acknowledging Early American Poetry / Christopher N. Phillips -- 11. Travel Writings in Early America, 1680-1820 / Susan C. Imbarrato -- 12. Early Native American Literacies to 1820: Systems of Meaning, Categories of Knowledge Transmission / Hilary E. Wyss -- 13. The Varieties of Religious Expression in Early American Literature / Sandra M. Gustafson -- 14. Benjamin Franklin: Printer, Editor, and Writer / Stephen Carl Arch -- 15. Writing Lives: Autobiography in Early America / Jennifer A. Desiderio -- 16. Captivity Recast: The Captivity Narrative in the Long Eighteenth Century / Jodi Schorb -- 17. Gender, Sex, and Seduction in Early American Literature / Ivy Schweitzer -- 18. Letters in Early American Manuscript and Print Cultures / Eve Tavor Bannet -- 19. Early American Evangelical Print Culture / Wendy Raphael Roberts -- 20. The First Black Atlantic: The Archive and Print Culture of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery / John Saillant -- 21. Manuscripts, Manufacts, and Social Authorship / Susan Stabile -- 22. Cosmopolitan Correspondences: The American Republic of Letters and the Circulation of Enlightenment Thought / Chiara Cillerai -- 23. Revolutionary Print Culture, 1763-1776 / Philip Gould -- 24. Founding Documents: Writing the American into Being / Trish Loughran -- 25. From the Wharf to the Woods: The Development of U.S. Regional and National Publishing Networks, 1787-1820 / Phillip H. Round -- 26. Performance, Theatricality, and Early American Drama / Laura L. Mielke -- 27. Charles Brockden Brown and the Novel in the 1790s / Philip Barnard, Mark L. Kamrath and Stephen Shapiro -- 28. Medicine, Disability, and Early American Literature / Sari Altschuler -- 29. Remapping the Canonical Interregnum: Periodization, Canonization, & the American Novel, 1800-1820 / Duncan Faherty -- 30. Commerce, Class, and Cash: Economics in Early American Literature / Elizabeth Hewitt -- 31. Haiti and the Early American Imagination / Michael J. Drexler.
• Volume II: 1820-1914. General Introduction / Susan Belasco -- Introduction to Volume II / Linck Johnson -- 1. The Transformation of Literary Production, 1820-1865 / Susan Belasco -- 2. Travel Writing / Susan L. Roberson -- 3. The Historical Romance / Monika M. Elbert and Leland S. Person -- 4. The Gothic Tale / Gerald Kennedy -- 5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Transcendentalism / Phyllis Cole -- 6. Henry David Thoreau and the Literature of the Environment / Rochelle L. Johnson -- 7. Herman Melville and the Antebellum Reading Public / David O. Dowling -- 8. Women Writers at Midcentury / Nicole Tonkovich -- 9. Popular Poetry and the Rise of Anthologies / Amanda Gailey -- 10. Walt Whitman and the New York Literary World / Edward Whitley -- 11. Emily Dickinson and the Tradition of Women Poets / Elizabeth A. Petrino -- 12. The Literature of Antebellum Reform / Linck Johnson -- 13. Sex, the Body, and Health Reform / David Greven -- 14. Proslavery and Antislavery Literature / Susan M. Ryan -- 15. Gender and the Construction of Antebellum Slave Narratives / Philathia Bolton and Venetria Patton -- 16. Antebellum Oratory / John C. Briggs -- 17. Literature and the Civil War / Shirley Samuels -- 18. Disability and Literature / Mary Klages -- 19. The Development of Print Culture, 1865-1914 / William Hardwig -- 20. Local Color and the Rise of Regionalism / Anne Boyd Rioux -- 21. Poetry, Periodicals, and the Marketplace / Nadia Nurhussein -- 22. Realism from William Dean Howells to Edith Wharton / Alfred Bendixen -- 23. Mark Twain and the Idea of American Identity / Andrew Levy -- 24. Henry James at Home and Abroad / John Carlos Rowe -- 25. Naturalism / Donna Campbell -- 26. Social Protest Fiction / Alicia Mischa Renfroe -- 27. The Immigrant Experience / James Nagel -- 28. Double Consciousness: African American Writers at the Turn of the Century / Shirley Moody-Turner -- 29. Native American Voices / Cari Carpenter -- 30. Latina/o Voices / Jesse Alemán -- 31. The Emergence of an American Drama, 1820-1914 / Cheryl Black.
• Volume III: 1914-Present. General Introduction / Susan Belasco -- Introduction to Volume III / Michael Soto -- 1. Magazines, Little and Large: American Print Culture in the Early Twentieth Century / Jayne E. Marek -- 2. Regional Literary Expressions / Philip Joseph -- 3. The Literature of the U.S. South: Modernism and Beyond / John Wharton Lowe -- 4. American Literature and the Academy / Eric Bennett -- 5. The Literature of World War I / Hazel Hutchison -- 6. The Course of Modern American Poetry / Charles Altieri -- 7. Modernism and the American Novel / Linda Wagner-Martin -- 8. The Little Theatre Movement / DeAnna M. Toten Beard -- 9. The Lost Generation and American Expatriatism / Michael Soto -- 10. The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro / Maureen Honey -- 11. Proletarian Literature / Barbara Foley -- 12. Realism in American Drama / Brenda Murphy -- 13. Nature Writing and the New Environmentalism / Karla Armbruster -- 14. The Literature and Film of World War II / Philip Beidler -- 15. The Beat Minds of Their Generation / David Sterritt -- 16. The Black Arts Movement and the Racial Divide / Amy Abugo Ongiri -- 17. Literary Self-Fashioning in the Pharmacological Age: Confessional Poetry / Michael Thurston -- 18. New Frontiers in Postmodern Theater / Kerstin Schmidt -- 19. Poetry at the End of the Millennium / John Lowney -- 20. The Literature and Film of the Vietnam War / Mark A. Heberle -- 21. Gay and Lesbian Literature / Guy Davidson -- 22. American Literature in Languages Other than English / Steven G. Kellman -- 23. Jewish American Literary Forms / Victoria Aarons -- 24. Native American Literary Forms / Thomas C. Gannon -- 25. Asian American Literary Forms / Una Chung -- 26. Latina/o Literary Forms / Marta Caminero-Santangelo -- 27. African American Fiction After Hiroshima and Nagasaki / Michael Hill -- 28. Creative Nonfictions / Barrie Jean Borich -- 29. The Rise and Nature of the Graphic Novel / Stephen E. Tabachnick -- 30. The Digital Revolution and the Future of American Reading / Naomi S. Baron.

• ""The test of time," an abundant literature, geographical expansiveness, artistry, and, more recently, inclusiveness represented by a complex awareness of gender and cultural diversity. These are key criteria used to determine entry into American literary canons and American literary histories. Scholars who specialize in indigenous oral literatures would doubtless claim that this literature fulfills all the criteria and thus deserves a major place in canon and history. For these readers, I could proceed directly to the main business of this chapter: an overview of how Native oral narratives, song, and ceremony have and will continue to challenge in constructive ways EuroAmerican concepts of authorship, context, genre, geographic and period designation, the functions of literature, and the importance of understanding how literature is experienced. But most American literature teachers and students have little knowledge of the magnitude and importance of the oral literatures. For these readers, it is appropriate to begin by establishing how this form of literature fulfills conventional expectations for inclusion in a twenty-first century literary history-and specifically inclusion as the grand opening entry to the narrative of our literature"-- 

Ämnesord

Amerikansk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

American literature  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

American literature.  (fast)

Klassifikation

PS121 (LCC)

810.9 (DDC)