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List of contents
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 Jesús Benito Sánchez 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
About the author
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.
