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Informationen zum Autor Caroline F. Levander is Carlson Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English, and Director of the Humanities Research Center at Rice University, USA. She is author of Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Culture and Literature (1998) and Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W.E.B. Du Bois (2006); she is co-editor of The American Child: A Culture Studies Reader (2003), Hemispheric American Studies (2008), and Teaching and Studying the Americas (2010). Robert S. Levine is Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, USA. He is the author of Conspiracy and Romance (1989), Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity (1997), and Dislocating Race and Nation (2008); he is also the editor of a number of volumes, including Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader (2003), The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 1820-1865 (2007), and Hemispheric American Studies (with Caroline F. Levander, 2008). Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes 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...
