A Companion to American Literary Studies Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 1st Edition by Caroline Levander, Robert Levine ISBN 978-1119062516 1119062519

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ISBN 10:   1119062519

ISBN 13:  978-1119062516

Author:  Caroline F. Levander, Robert S. Levine

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: 

Part I. Forms

1. Poetry, Prose, and the Politics of Literary Form – Russ Castronovo

2. The Critical Work of American Literature – Joel Pfister

3. Women’s Worlds in the Nineteenth-Century US Novel – Shirley Samuels

4. The Secularization Narrative and Nineteenth-Century American Literature – Elizabeth Fenton

5. Literatures of Technology, Technologies of Literature – Paul Gilmore

6. Excluded Middles: Social Inequality in American Literature – Gavin Jones

7. Narrative Medicine, Biocultures, and the Visualization of Health and Disease – Kirsten Ostherr

8. Performance Anxieties: The A-Literary Companions of American Literary Studies – Catherine Gunther Kodat

9. Drama, Theatre, and Performance before O’Neill – Jeffrey H. Richards

10. Disliking It: American Poetry and American Literary Studies – Mary Loeffelholz

11. After the New Americanists: The Progress of Romance and the Romance of Progress in American Literary Studies – Jennifer L. Fleissner

12. Mass Media and Literary Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century – Nancy Bentley

Part II. Spaces

13. Cabeza de Vaca, Lope de Oviedo, and America’s Exceptionalism – Anna Brickhouse

14. Worlding America: The Hemispheric Text-Network – Susan Gillman and Kirsten Silva Gruesz

15. Worlds of Color, Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in Early American Literary History – Michelle Stephens

16. Transatlantic Returns – Elisa Tamarkin

17. American Literature in Transnational Perspective: The Case of Mark Twain – Shelley Fisher Fishkin

18. Southern Literary Studies – John T. Matthews

19. New Regionalisms: US-Caribbean Literary Relations – Sean X. Goudie

20. American Literature as Ecosystem: The Examples of Euclides da Cunha and Cormac McCarthy – George B. Handley

21. Settler States of Feeling: National Belonging and the Erasure of Native American Presence – Mark Rifkin

22. Tribal Nations and the Other Territories of American Indian Literary History – James H. Cox

23. Globalization – Paul Giles

Part III. Practices

24. Democratic Cultures and the First Century of US Literature – Dana D. Nelson

25. American Literature and Law – Brook Thomas

26. Sexuality and American Literary Studies – Christopher Looby

27. Exquisite Fragility: Human Being in the Aftermath of War – Priscilla Wald

28. The Posthuman Turn: Rewriting Species in Recent American Literature – Ursula K. Heise

29. Narrative and Intellectual Disability – Michael Bérubé

30. Reading for Asian American Literature – Colleen Lye

31. Untangling Genealogy’s Tangled Skeins: Alexander Crummell, James McCune Smith, and Nineteenth-Century Black Literary Traditions – Carla L. Peterson

32. Speculative Realism and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary American Fiction – Ramón Saldívar

33. The New Life of the New Forms: American Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities – Matt Cohen

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