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Informationen zum Autor Paul Lauter is Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature 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 sixth edition. Klappentext This expansive Companion to American Literature 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. Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors.Introduction (Paul Lauter).Part A Genealogies of American Literary Study.1 The Emergence of the Literatures of the United States (Emory Elliott).2 Politics, Sentiment, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America (John Carlos Rowe).3 Making It New: Constructions of Modernism (Carla Kaplan).4 Academicizing "American Literature" (Elizabeth Renker).5 Cold War and Culture War (Christopher Newfield).6 Re-Historicizing Literature (T.V. Reed).7 Multiculturalism and Forging New Canons (Shelley Streeby).Part B Writers and Issues.8 Indigenous Oral Traditions of North America, Then and Now (Lisa Brooks (Abenaki)).9 The New Worlds and the Old: Transatlantic Politics of Conversion (Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer).10 Unspeakable Fears: Politics and Style in the Enlightenment (Frank Shuffelton).11 Slave Narrative and Captivity Narrative: American Genres (Gordon M. Sayre).12 The Early Republic: Forms and Readers (Trish Loughran).13 "Indians" Constructed and Speaking (Scott Richard Lyons).14 Sentiment and Style (Tara Penry).15 Transcendental Politics (Paul Lauter).16 Melville, Whitman, and the Tribulations of Democracy (Betsy Erkkila).17 Emily Dickinson and Her Peers (Paula Bernat Bennett).18 Race and Literary Politics (Frances Smith Foster and Cassandra Jackson).19 American Regionalism (Susan K. Harris).20 Magazines and Fictions (Ellen Gruber Garvey).21 Realism and Victorian Protestantism in African American Literature (Phillip M. Richards).22 The Maturation of American Fictions (Gary Scharnhorst).23 Making It New: Constructions of Modernisms (Heinz Ickstadt).24 Wests, Westerns, Westerners (Martha Viehmann).25 The Early Modern Write...
