A companion to American literature. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Susan Belasco, Theresa Strouth Gaul, Linck Johnson, Michael Soto.
• Editors: Belasco, Susan, 1950-; Gaul, Theresa Strouth; Soto, Michael, 1970-; Johnson, Linck C, 1946-
• Contents: Volume I: Origins-1820 Full Table of Contents Editors Notes on Contributors to Volume I General Introduction Susan Belasco Introduction to Volume I Theresa Strouth Gaul Chronology Origins-1820 1. The Storyteller's Universe: Indigenous Oral Literatures Kenneth M. Roemer 2. Cross-Cultural Encounters in Early American Literatures: From Incommensurability to Exchange Kelly Wisecup 3. Settlement Literatures Before and Beyond the Stories of Nations Tamara Harvey 4. The Puritan Culture of Letters Abram Van Engen 5. Writing the Salem Witch Trials Peter J. Grund 6. Captivity: From Babylon to Indian Country Andrew Newman 7. Africans in Early America Cassander L. Smith 8. Migration, Exile, Imperialism: The Non-English Literatures of Early America Reconsidered Patrick M. Erben 9. Environment and Environmentalism Timothy Sweet 10. Acknowledging Early American Poetry Christopher N. Phillips 11. Travel Writings in Early America, 1680-1820 Susan C. Imbarrato 12. Early Native American Literacies to 1820: Systems of Meaning, Categories of Knowledge Transmission Hilary E. Wyss 13. The Varieties of Religious Expression in Early American Literature Sandra M. Gustafson 14. Benjamin Franklin: Printer, Editor, and Writer Stephen Carl Arch 15. Writing Lives: Autobiography in Early America Jennifer A. Desiderio 16. Captivity Recast: The Captivity Narrative in the Long Eighteenth Century Jodi Schorb 17. Gender, Sex, and Seduction in Early American Literature Ivy Schweitzer 18. Letters in Early American Manuscript and Print Cultures Eve Tavor Bannet 19. Early American Evangelical Print Culture Wendy Raphael Roberts 20. The First Black Atlantic: The Archive and Print Culture of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery John Saillant 21. Manuscripts, Manufacts, and Social Authorship Susan Stabile 22. Cosmopolitan Correspondences: The American Republic of Letters and the Circulation of Enlightenment Thought Chiara Cillerai 23. Revolutionary Print Culture, 1763-1776 Philip Gould 24. Founding Documents: Writing the American into Being Trish Loughran 25. From the Wharf to the Woods: The Development of U.S. Regional and National Publishing Networks, 1787-1820 Phillip H. Round 26. Performance, Theatricality, and Early American Drama Laura L. Mielke 27. Charles Brockden Brown and the Novel in the 1790s Philip Barnard, Mark L. Kamrath and Stephen Shapiro 28. Medicine, Disability, and Early American Literature Sari Altschuler 29. Remapping the Canonical Interregnum: Periodization, Canonization, & the American Novel, 1800-1820 Duncan Faherty 30. Commerce, Class, and Cash: Economics in Early American Literature Elizabeth Hewitt 31. Haiti and the Early American Imagination Michael J. Drexler Index to Volume I Volume II edited by: Linck Johnson Volume II: 1820-1914 Editors Notes on Contributors to Volume II General Introduction Susan Belasco Introduction to Volume II Linck Johnson Chronology 1820-1914 The Transformation of Literary Production, 1820-1865 Susan Belasco Travel Writing Susan L. Roberson The Historical Romance Monika M. Elbert and Leland S. Person The Gothic Tale Gerald Kennedy Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Transcendentalism Phyllis Cole Henry David Thoreau and the Literature of the Environment Rochelle L. Johnson Herman Melville and the Antebellum Reading Public David O. Dowling Women Writers at Midcentury Nicole Tonkovich Popular Poetry and the Rise of Anthologies Amanda Gailey Walt Whitman and the New York Literary World Edward Whitley Emily Dickinson and the Tradition of Women Poets Elizabeth A. Petrino The Literature of Antebellum Reform Linck Johnson Sex, the Body, and Health Reform David Greven Proslavery and Antislavery Literature Susan M. Ryan Gender and the Construction of Antebellum Slave Narratives Venetria Patton and Philathia Bolton Antebellum Oratory John C. Briggs Literature and the Civil War Shirley Samuels Disability and Literature Mary Klages The Development of Print Culture, 1865-1914 William Hardwig Local Color and the Rise of Regionalism Anne Boyd Rioux Poetry, Periodicals, and the Marketplace Nadia Nurhussein Realism from William Dean Howells to Edith Wharton Alfred Bendixen Mark Twain and the Idea of American Identity Andrew Levy Henry James at Home and Abroad John Carlos Rowe Naturalism Donna Campbell Social Protest Fiction Alicia Mischa Renfroe The Immigrant Experience James Nagel Double Consciousness: African American Writers at the Turn of the Century Shirley Moody-Turner Native American Voices Cari Carpenter Latina/o Voices Jesse Alemán The Emergence of an American Drama, 1820-1914 Cheryl Black Index to Volume II Volume III: 1914-Present Editors Notes on Contributors to Volume III General Introduction Susan Belasco Introduction to Volume III Michael Soto Chronology 1914-Present Magazines, Little and Large: American Print Culture in the Early Twentieth Century Jayne E.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Chichester : Wiley Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 810.9; American literature -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119653349
• Related ISBNs: 9781119653356
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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