{"product_id":"a-companion-to-american-literature-3-volume-set-isbn-9781119146711","title":"A Companion to American Literature, 3 Volume Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive, chronological overview of American literature in three scholarly and authoritative volumes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e traces the history and development of American literature from its early origins in Native American oral tradition to 21st century digital literature. This comprehensive three-volume set brings together contributions from a diverse international team of accomplished young scholars and established figures in the field.  Contributors explore a broad range of topics in historical, cultural, political, geographic, and technological contexts, engaging the work of both well-known and non-canonical writers of every period. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVolume One is an inclusive and geographically expansive examination of early American literature, applying a range of cultural and historical approaches and theoretical models to a dramatically expanded canon of texts. Volume Two covers American literature between 1820 and 1914, focusing on the development of print culture and the literary marketplace, the emergence of various literary movements, and the impact of social and historical events on writers and writings of the period. Spanning the 20th and early 21st centuries, Volume Three studies traditional areas of American literature as well as the literature from previously marginalized groups and contemporary writers often overlooked by scholars. This inclusive and comprehensive study of American literature:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines the influences of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and disability on American literature\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses the role of technology in book production and circulation, the rise of literacy, and changing reading practices and literary forms\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores a wide range of writings in multiple genres, including novels, short stories, dramas, and a variety of poetic forms, as well as autobiographies, essays, lectures, diaries, journals, letters, sermons, histories, and graphic narratives.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a thematic index that groups chapters by contexts and illustrates their links across different traditional chronological boundaries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to American Literature \u003c\/i\u003eis a valuable resource for students coming to the subject for the first time or preparing for field examinations, instructors in American literature courses, and scholars with more specialized interests in specific authors, genres, movements, or periods.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolume I: Origins-1820\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFull Table of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors to Volume I\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Belasco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Volume I\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTheresa Strouth Gaul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology Origins-1820\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Storyteller's Universe: Indigenous Oral Literatures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKenneth M. Roemer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Cross-Cultural Encounters in Early American Literatures: From Incommensurability to Exchange\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKelly Wisecup\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Settlement Literatures Before and Beyond the Stories of Nations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTamara Harvey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Puritan Culture of Letters\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbram Van Engen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Writing the Salem Witch Trials\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter J. Grund\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Captivity:  From Babylon to Indian Country\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Newman \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Africans in Early America\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCassander L. Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Migration, Exile, Imperialism: The Non-English Literatures of Early America Reconsidered\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatrick M. Erben\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Environment and Environmentalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimothy Sweet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Acknowledging Early American Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristopher N. Phillips\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Travel Writings in Early America, 1680-1820\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan C. Imbarrato\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Early Native American Literacies to 1820: Systems of Meaning, Categories of Knowledge Transmission\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHilary E. Wyss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The Varieties of Religious Expression in Early American Literature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSandra M. Gustafson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Benjamin Franklin: Printer, Editor, and Writer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Carl Arch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Writing Lives: Autobiography in Early America\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJennifer A. Desiderio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Captivity Recast: The Captivity Narrative in the Long Eighteenth Century\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJodi Schorb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Gender, Sex, and Seduction in Early American Literature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIvy Schweitzer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Letters in Early American Manuscript and Print Cultures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEve Tavor Bannet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. Early American Evangelical Print Culture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWendy Raphael Roberts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. The First Black Atlantic: The Archive and Print Culture of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Saillant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. Manuscripts, Manufacts, and Social Authorship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Stabile\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Cosmopolitan Correspondences: The American Republic of Letters and the Circulation of Enlightenment Thought\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChiara Cillerai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Revolutionary Print Culture, 1763-1776\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip Gould\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24. Founding Documents: Writing the American into Being\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrish Loughran\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. From the Wharf to the Woods: The Development of U.S. Regional and National Publishing Networks, 1787-1820\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhillip H. Round\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. Performance, Theatricality, and Early American Drama\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaura L. Mielke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. Charles Brockden Brown and the Novel in the 1790s\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip Barnard, Mark L. Kamrath and Stephen Shapiro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. Medicine, Disability, and Early American Literature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSari Altschuler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. Remapping the Canonical Interregnum: Periodization, Canonization, \u0026amp; the American Novel, 1800-1820\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDuncan Faherty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. Commerce, Class, and Cash:  Economics in Early American Literature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Hewitt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. Haiti and the Early American Imagination\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael J. Drexler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex to Volume I\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolume II edited by: Linck Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVolume II: 1820-1914\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors to Volume II\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Belasco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Volume II\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLinck Johnson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronology 1820-1914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e1. The Transformation of Literary Production, 1820-1865 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Belasco  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e2. Travel Writing\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan L. Roberson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e3. The Historical Romance \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonika M. Elbert and Leland S. Person\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e4. The Gothic Tale\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGerald Kennedy \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Transcendentalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhyllis Cole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e6. Henry David Thoreau and the Literature of the Environment \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRochelle L. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e7. Herman Melville and the Antebellum Reading Public\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid O. Dowling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e8. Women Writers at Midcentury\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicole Tonkovich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e9. Popular Poetry and the Rise of Anthologies \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmanda Gailey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e10. Walt Whitman and the New York Literary World   \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e  \u003ci\u003eEdward Whitley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e11. Emily Dickinson and the Tradition of Women Poets\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth A. Petrino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e12. The Literature of Antebellum Reform \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinck Johnson  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e13. Sex, the Body, and Health Reform\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Greven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e14. Proslavery and Antislavery Literature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan M. Ryan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e15. Gender and the Construction of Antebellum Slave Narratives\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilathia Bolton and \u003c\/i\u003eVenetria Patton \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e16. Antebellum Oratory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn C. Briggs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e17. Literature and the Civil War\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShirley Samuels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e18. Disability and Literature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary Klages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e19. The Development of Print Culture, 1865-1914\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Hardwig\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e20. Local Color and the Rise of Regionalism  \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnne Boyd Rioux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e21. Poetry, Periodicals, and the Marketplace \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNadia Nurhussein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e22. Realism from William Dean Howells to Edith Wharton\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlfred Bendixen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e23. Mark Twain and the Idea of American Identity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew Levy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e24. Henry James at Home and Abroad\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Carlos Rowe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e25. Naturalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDonna Campbell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e26. Social Protest Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlicia Mischa Renfroe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e27. The Immigrant Experience\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Nagel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e28. Double Consciousness: African American Writers at the Turn of the Century\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShirley Moody-Turner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e29. Native American Voices \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCari Carpenter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e30. Latina\/o Voices\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJesse Alemán\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e31. The Emergence of an American Drama, 1820-1914 \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCheryl Black\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex to Volume II\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolume III: 1914-Present\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors to Volume III\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Belasco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Volume III\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Soto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChronology 1914-Present\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Magazines, Little and Large: American Print Culture in the Early Twentieth Century\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJayne E. Marek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e2. Regional Literary Expressions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip Joseph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e3. The Literature of the U.S. South: Modernism and Beyond\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Wharton Lowe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e4. American Literature and the Academy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEric Bennett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e5. The Literature of World War I\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHazel Hutchison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e6. The Course of Modern American Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Altieri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e7. Modernism and the American Novel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinda Wagner-Martin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e8. The Little Theatre Movement\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeAnna M. Toten Beard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e9. The Lost Generation and American Expatriatism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Soto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e10. The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaureen Honey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e11. Proletarian Literature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarbara Foley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e12. Realism in American Drama\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrenda Murphy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e13. Nature Writing and the New Environmentalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKarla Armbruster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e14. The Literature and Film of World War II\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip Beidler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e15. The Beat Minds of Their Generation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Sterritt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e16. The Black Arts Movement and the Racial Divide\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmy Abugo Ongiri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e17. Literary Self-Fashioning in the Pharmacological Age: Confessional Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Thurston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e18. New Frontiers in Postmodern Theater\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKerstin Schmidt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e19. Poetry at the End of the Millennium\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Lowney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e20. The Literature and Film of the Vietnam War\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark A. Heberle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e21. Gay and Lesbian Literature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuy Davidson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e22. American Literature in Languages Other than English\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteven G. Kellman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e23. Jewish American Literary Forms\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictoria Aarons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e24. Native American Literary Forms\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas C. Gannon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e25. Asian American Literary Forms\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUna Chung\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e26. Latina\/o Literary Forms\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarta Caminero-Santangelo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e27. African American Fiction After Hiroshima and Nagasaki\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Hill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e28. Creative Nonfictions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarrie Jean Borich\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e29. The Rise and Nature of the Graphic Novel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen E. Tabachnick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e30. The Digital Revolution and the Future of American Reading\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNaomi S. Baron\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex to Volume III\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsolidated Index\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Belasco \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor Emerita and former Chair of the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTheresa Strouth Gaul\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLinck Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e is the Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Colgate University\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eHamilton, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Soto\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of English at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive, chronological overview of American literature in three scholarly and authoritative volumes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e traces the history and development of American literature from its early origins in Native American oral tradition to 21st century digital literature. This comprehensive three-volume set brings together contributions from a diverse international team of accomplished young scholars and established figures in the field.  Contributors explore a broad range of topics in historical, cultural, political, geographic, and technological contexts, engaging the work of both well-known and non-canonical writers of every period. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVolume One is an inclusive and geographically expansive examination of early American literature, applying a range of cultural and historical approaches and theoretical models to a dramatically expanded canon of texts. Volume Two covers American literature between 1820 and 1914, focusing on the development of print culture and the literary marketplace, the emergence of various literary movements, and the impact of social and historical events on writers and writings of the period. Spanning the 20th and early 21st centuries, Volume Three studies traditional areas of American literature as well as the literature from previously marginalized groups and contemporary writers often overlooked by scholars. 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