{"product_id":"a-companion-to-american-literary-studies-isbn-9781405198813","title":"A Companion to American Literary Studies","description":"\u003ci\u003eA Companion to American Literary Studies\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers up-to-date accounts of major new critical approaches to American literary studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents state-of-the-art essays on a full range of topics central to the field\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEssays explore critical and institutional genealogies of the field, increasingly diverse conceptions of American literary study, and unprecedented material changes such as the digital revolution\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA unique anthology in the field, and an essential resource for libraries, faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003ci\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e x  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCaroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Forms\u003c\/b\u003e 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Poetry, Prose, and the Politics of Literary Form 15\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRuss Castronovo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Critical Work of American Literature 29\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJoel Pfister\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Women’s Worlds in the Nineteenth-Century US Novel 46\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eShirley Samuels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Secularization Narrative and Nineteenth-Century American Literature 61\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Fenton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Literatures of Technology, Technologies of Literature 77\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul Gilmore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Excluded Middles: Social Inequality in American Literature 93\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGavin Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Narrative Medicine, Biocultures, and the Visualization of Health and Disease 108\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKirsten Ostherr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Performance Anxieties: The A-Literary Companions of American Literary Studies 125\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCatherine Gunther Kodat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Drama, Theatre, and Performance before O’Neill 141\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeffrey H. Richards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Disliking It: American Poetry and American Literary Studies 158\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMary Loeffelholz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 After the New Americanists: The Progress of Romance and the Romance of Progress in American Literary Studies 173\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJennifer L. Fleissner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Mass Media and Literary Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 191\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNancy Bentley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Spaces\u003c\/b\u003e 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Cabeza de Vaca, Lope de Oviedo, and Americas Exceptionalism 211\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnna Brickhouse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Worlding America: The Hemispheric Text-Network 228\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan Gillman and Kirsten Silva Gruesz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Worlds of Color, Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in Early American Literary History 248\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichelle Stephens\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Transatlantic Returns 264\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eElisa Tamarkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 American Literature in Transnational Perspective: The Case of Mark Twain 279\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eShelley Fisher Fishkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Southern Literary Studies 294\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn T. Matthews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 New Regionalisms: US-Caribbean Literary Relations 310\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSean X. Goudie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 American Literature as Ecosystem: The Examples of Euclides da Cunha and Cormac McCarthy 325\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorge B. Handley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Settler States of Feeling: National Belonging and the Erasure of Native American Presence 342\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMark Rifkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Tribal Nations and the Other Territories of American Indian Literary History 356\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames H. Cox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Globalization 373\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul Giles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Practices\u003c\/b\u003e 387\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Democratic Cultures and the First Century of US Literature 389\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDana D. Nelson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 American Literature and Law 406\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBrook Thomas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Sexuality and American Literary Studies 422\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher Looby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Exquisite Fragility: Human Being in the Aftermath of War 437\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePriscilla Wald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 The Posthuman Turn: Rewriting Species in Recent American Literature 454\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eUrsula K. Heise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Narrative and Intellectual Disability 469\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Bérubé\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Reading for Asian American Literature 483\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eColleen Lye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Untangling Genealogy’s Tangled Skeins: Alexander Crummell, James McCune Smith, and Nineteenth-Century Black Literary Traditions 500\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCarla L. Peterson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Speculative Realism and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary American Fiction 517\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRamón Saldívar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 The New Life of the New Forms: American Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities 532\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMatt Cohen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e 549\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003c\/b\u003eWith this in mind, acquisition is recommended for college and university libraries.”  (\u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 December 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eCaroline F. Levander\u003c\/b\u003e is Carlson Professor in the Humanities, Professor of English, and Director of the Humanities Research Center at Rice University, USA. She is author of \u003ci\u003eVoices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Culture and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) and \u003ci\u003eCradle of Liberty: Race, the Child and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W.E.B. Du Bois\u003c\/i\u003e (2006); she is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe American Child: A Culture Studies Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), \u003ci\u003eHemispheric American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and \u003ci\u003eTeaching and Studying the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e (2010).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert S. Levine\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eConspiracy and Romance\u003c\/i\u003e (1989), \u003ci\u003eMartin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), and \u003ci\u003eDislocating Race and Nation\u003c\/i\u003e (2008); he is also the editor of a number of volumes, including \u003ci\u003eMartin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), \u003ci\u003eThe Norton Anthology of American Literature, 1820-1865\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), and \u003ci\u003eHemispheric American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (with Caroline F. Levander, 2008).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eA Companion to American Literary Studies\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the most provocative questions, subjects, and issues animating the disciplinary field of “American literature.” It provides state-of-the-art essays on a full range of topics central to the field, examining the strengths and limitations of current scholarly and pedagogical practices and pointing to future developments and possibilities. The essays explore critical and institutional genealogies of the field, increasingly diverse conceptions of American literary study, and the unprecedented material changes to the field occasioned by emerging digital, new media, and visual technologies. Collectively, the 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 field. With its emphasis on histories, practices, and futures, this is an essential resource for anyone interested in American literary studies.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988600733925,"sku":"NP9781405198813","price":252.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405198813.jpg?v=1761780922","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-companion-to-american-literary-studies-isbn-9781405198813","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}