{"product_id":"a-companion-to-american-literature-and-culture-isbn-9781119685654","title":"A Companion to American Literature and Culture","description":"This expansive \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eHighlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers and issues; and contemporary theories and practices\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEnables students and researchers to generate richer, more varied and more comprehensive readings of American literature\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Contributors x \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Lauter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart A Genealogies of American Literary Study \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e7\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Emergence of the Literatures of the United States 9\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmory Elliott\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Politics, Sentiment, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century America 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Carlos Rowe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Making It New: Constructions of Modernism 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarla Kaplan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Academicizing “American Literature” 57\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Renker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Cold War and Culture War 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristopher Newfield\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Re-Historicizing Literature 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eT.V. Reed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Multiculturalism and Forging New Canons 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelley Streeby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart B Writers and Issues \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e123\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Indigenous Oral Traditions of North America, Then and Now 125\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLisa Brooks (Abenaki)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The New Worlds and the Old: Transatlantic Politics of Conversion 143\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Unspeakable Fears: Politics and Style in the Enlightenment 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrank Shuffelton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Slave Narrative and Captivity Narrative: American Genres 179\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGordon M. Sayre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Early Republic: Forms and Readers 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrish Loughran\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 “Indians” Constructed and Speaking 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eScott Richard Lyons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Sentiment and Style 221\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTara Penry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Transcendental Politics 237\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Lauter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Melville, Whitman, and the Tribulations of Democracy 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBetsy Erkkila\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Emily Dickinson and Her Peers 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaula Bernat Bennett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Race and Literary Politics 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrances Smith Foster and Cassandra Jackson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 American Regionalism 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan K. Harris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Magazines and Fictions 339\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEllen Gruber Garvey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Realism and Victorian Protestantism in African American Literature 354\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhillip M. Richards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 The Maturation of American Fictions 364\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGary Scharnhorst\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Making It New: Constructions of Modernisms 377\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeinz Ickstadt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Wests, Westerns, Westerners 394\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartha Viehmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 The Early Modern Writers of the US South 410\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Lowe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Writers on the Left 427\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlan Wald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 From Objectivism to the Haight 441\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCharles Molesworth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 New Aestheticisms: the Artfulness of Art 458\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Burt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Drama in American Culture 478\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrenda Murphy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart C Contemporary Theories and Practices \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e491\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Constructions of “Ethnicity” and “Diasporas” 493\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAviva Taubenfeld\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Narrating Terror and Trauma: Racial Formations and “Homeland Security” in Ethnic American Literature 508\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShirley Geok-lin Lim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Feminisms and Literatures 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeborah S. Rosenfelt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Blackness\/Whiteness 563\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Smethurst\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Borderlands: Ethnicity, Multiculturalism, and Hybridity 576\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAna Maria Manzanas and Jesús Benito Sánchez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Literature-and-Environment Studies and the Influence of the Environmental Justice Movement 593\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoni Adamson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Endowed by Their Creator: Queer American Literature 608\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Bergman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 Contemporary Native American Fiction as Resistance Literature 622\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eArnold Krupat and Michael A. Elliott\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 From Virgin Land to Ground Zero: Interrogating the Mythological Foundations of the Master Fiction of the Homeland Security State 637\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDonald Pease\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword 655\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Lauter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 657\u003c\/p\u003e \"I believe this book is well worth dipping into. It is, I suggest, a volume of solid scholarship that should have a significant impact in what is already a quite crowded publishing area. It is highly recommended, if only for the reason that—as Lauter explains—'the literatures of this America illuminate as nothing else has done the aspirations, the contradictions, the dangers and possibilities of this society'\" (\u003ci\u003eM\/C Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, November 2010)  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Lauter\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eHeath Anthology of American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, now in its seventh edition.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA COMPANION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe expansive \u003ci\u003eCompanion to American Literature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988600864997,"sku":"NP9781119685654","price":55.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119685654.jpg?v=1761780924","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-companion-to-american-literature-and-culture-isbn-9781119685654","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}