A Companion to American Literary Studies

Copyright © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to American Literary Studies

Editor(s): Caroline F. Levander, Robert S. Levine

Published Online: 12 OCT 2011 01:44AM EST

Print ISBN: 9781405198813

Online ISBN: 9781444343809

DOI: 10.1002/9781444343809

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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

 

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xv)

    1. Introduction (pages 1–11)

      Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine

  3. Part I: Forms

    1. Chapter 1

      Poetry, Prose, and the Politics of Literary Form (pages 13–28)

      Russ Castronovo

    2. Chapter 2

      The Critical Work of American Literature (pages 29–45)

      Joel Pfister

    3. Chapter 3

      Women's Worlds in the Nineteenth-Century US Novel (pages 46–60)

      Shirley Samuels

    4. Chapter 4

      The Secularization Narrative and Nineteenth-Century American Literature (pages 61–76)

      Elizabeth Fenton

    5. Chapter 5

      Literatures of Technology, Technologies of Literature (pages 77–92)

      Paul Gilmore

    6. Chapter 6

      Excluded Middles: Social Inequality in American Literature (pages 93–107)

      Gavin Jones

    7. Chapter 7

      Narrative Medicine, Biocultures, and the Visualization of Health and Disease (pages 108–124)

      Kirsten Ostherr

    8. Chapter 8

      Performance Anxieties: The A-Literary Companions of American Literary Studies (pages 125–140)

      Catherine Gunther Kodat

    9. Chapter 9

      Drama, Theatre, and Performance before O'Neill (pages 141–157)

      Jeffrey H. Richards

    10. Chapter 10

      Disliking It: American Poetry and American Literary Studies (pages 158–172)

      Mary Loeffelholz

    11. Chapter 11

      After the New Americanists: The Progress of Romance and the Romance of Progress in American Literary Studies (pages 173–190)

      Jennifer L. Fleissner

    12. Chapter 12

      Mass Media and Literary Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (pages 191–207)

      Nancy Bentley

  4. Part II: Spaces

    1. Chapter 13

      Cabeza de Vaca, Lope de Oviedo, and Americas Exceptionalism (pages 209–227)

      Anna Brickhouse

    2. Chapter 14

      Worlding America: The Hemispheric Text-Network (pages 228–247)

      Susan Gillman and Kirsten Silva Gruesz

    3. Chapter 15

      Worlds of Color, Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in Early American Literary History (pages 248–263)

      Michelle Stephens

    4. Chapter 16

      Transatlantic Returns (pages 264–278)

      Elisa Tamarkin

    5. Chapter 17

      American Literature in Transnational Perspective: The Case of Mark Twain (pages 279–293)

      Shelley Fisher Fishkin

    6. Chapter 18

      Southern Literary Studies (pages 294–309)

      John T. Matthews

    7. Chapter 19

      New Regionalisms: US-Caribbean Literary Relations (pages 310–324)

      Sean X. Goudie

    8. Chapter 20

      American Literature as Ecosystem: The Examples of Euclides da Cunha and Cormac McCarthy (pages 325–341)

      George B. Handley

    9. Chapter 21

      Settler States of Feeling: National Belonging and the Erasure of Native American Presence (pages 342–355)

      Mark Rifkin

    10. Chapter 22

      Tribal Nations and the Other Territories of American Indian Literary History (pages 356–372)

      James H. Cox

    11. Chapter 23

      Globalization (pages 373–386)

      Paul Giles

  5. Part III: Practices

    1. Chapter 24

      Democratic Cultures and the First Century of US Literature (pages 387–405)

      Dana D. Nelson

    2. Chapter 25

      American Literature and Law (pages 406–421)

      Brook Thomas

    3. Chapter 26

      Sexuality and American Literary Studies (pages 422–436)

      Christopher Looby

    4. Chapter 27

      Exquisite Fragility: Human Being in the Aftermath of War (pages 437–453)

      Priscilla Wald

    5. Chapter 28

      The Posthuman Turn: Rewriting Species in Recent American Literature (pages 454–468)

      Ursula K. Heise

    6. Chapter 29

      Narrative and Intellectual Disability (pages 469–482)

      Michael Bérubé

    7. Chapter 30

      Reading for Asian American Literature (pages 483–499)

      Colleen Lye

    8. Chapter 31

      Untangling Genealogy's Tangled Skeins: Alexander Crummell, James McCune Smith, and Nineteenth-Century Black Literary Traditions (pages 500–516)

      Carla L. Peterson

    9. Chapter 32

      Speculative Realism and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary American Fiction (pages 517–531)

      Ramón Saldívar

    10. Chapter 33

      The New Life of the New Forms: American Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities (pages 532–548)

      Matt Cohen

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      Index (pages 549–476)

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