McGraw-Hill, 1985. — 878 p. Colonial Period. The Revolutionary and Early National Years. American Romanticism. Regionalism and Realism. Modern Literature. Contemporary Literature.
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 249 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). A whole range of American writers have focused on images of household, domestic virtue, and the feminine or feminized hero. This important new book examines the persistence and flexibility of such themes in the work of classic writers from Ann Bradstreet through Jefferson and...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 212 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). In this overview of twentieth-century American poetry, Jennifer Ashton examines the relationship between modernist and postmodernist American poetics. Ashton moves between the iconic figures of American modernism - Stein, Williams, Pound - and developments in contemporary...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 225 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Focusing on key works of late-nineteenth and early- twentieth-century American literary realism, Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of gaining intellectual prestige--that is, new ways of gaining some degree of cultural recognition. Through extended readings of...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 270 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style...
Bercovitch Sacvan, Carswell Charles. The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume 1 Cambridge University Press, 797 p. This volume, covering the colonial and early national periods, spans three centuries and an extraordinary variety of authors: Renaissance explorers, Puritan theocrats, Enlightenment naturalists, southern women of letters, revolutionary pamphleteers, and...
Bercovitch Sacvan, Carswell Charles. The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume 2 Cambridge University Press, 881 p. This volume is the fullest and richest account of the American renaissance available in any literary history. The narratives offer a fourfold perspective on literature: social, cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic. Michael Davitt Bell describes the...
Bercovitch Sacvan, Carswell Charles. The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume 3 Cambridge University Press, 797 p. This volume covers a pivotal era in the formation of American identity. Four leading scholars connect the literature with the massive historical changes then underway. Richard H. Brodhead describes the foundation of a permanent literary culture in...
Bercovitch Sacvan, Carswell Charles. The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume 4 Cambridge University Press, 550 p. This volume is the first complete narrative history of nineteenth-century American poetry, ranging from the revolutionary period through the CivilWar and the surging pluralism and emerging mass society at the turn of the century. Barbara Packer explores...
Bercovitch Sacvan, Carswell Charles. The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume 8 Cambridge University Press, 554 p. This volume, concerned with works written between 1940 and the present, brings together two altogether different sets of materials and narrative forms: the aesthetic and the institutional. Robert von Hallberg traces the course of American poetry since...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 177 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). In The Poetry of Disturbance, David Bergman argues that post-war poetry underwent a significant if subtle shift in emphasis, moving from the Modernist concern with the poem as a visual text to one that was chiefly oral in nature. The resulting change was disturbing, especially...
University of North Georgia Press, 2015. — 775 p. Late Romanticism (1855-1870). Learning Outcomes. Walt Whitman. Chapter 2: Realism (1865-1890). Mark Twain. William Dean Howells. Ambrose Bierce. Henry James. Sarah Orne Jewett. Kate Chopin. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Chapter 3: Naturalism (1890-1914). Learning Outcomes. Frank...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 205 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Race, Work and Desire analyses literary representations of work relationships across the colour-line from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Michele Birnbaum examines inter-racial bonds in fiction and literary correspondence by black and white authors and...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 236 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Approaching post-World War II poetry from a postmodern critical perspective, this study challenges the prevailing assumption that experimental forms signify political opposition while traditional forms are politically conservative. Blasing shows how four major postwar...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 343 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Brickhouse's main argument, albeit much simplified, is that the 19th century American literature, written in English, was inextricably linked with writings and audiences in French and Spanish. She presents comparative views of American literature, from the standpoint of French...
Cambriodge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 648 p. — ISBN10: 0521118980; ISBN13: 978-0521118989. Jewel Spears Brooker presents the most comprehensive gathering of newspaper and magazine reviews of Eliot's work ever assembled. Including reviews from both American and British journals, Brooker expands on major themes within the reviews to demonstrate how they influenced...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 210 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Theo Davis offers a fresh account of the emergence of a national literature in the United States. Taking American literature's universalism as an organising force that must be explained rather than simply exposed, she contends that Emerson, Hawthorne, and Stowe's often noted...
Greenwood, 2015. — (Historical explorations of literature). — ISBN: 978-1-61069-668-5. This one-stop reference to the "Jazz Age" - the period that began after the First World War and ended with the stock market crash of 1929 - digs into the cultural, historical, and literary contexts of the era. Author Linda De Roche examines the writing of the time to look beyond the common...
Belknap Press, 2001. — 519 p. The story of New England writing begins some 400 years ago, when a group of English Puritans crossed the Atlantic believing that God had appointed them to bring light and truth to the New World. Over the centuries since, the people of New England have produced one of the great literary traditions of the world--an outpouring of poetry, fiction,...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 234 p. ISBN10: 1403976449; ISBN13: 978-1403976444. Dowdy uncovers and analyzes the primary rhetorical strategies, particularly figures of voice, in American political poetry from the Vietnam War-era to the present. He brings together a unique and diverse collection of poets, including an innovative section on hip hop performance. Embodied...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 242 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Paul Downes offers a radical revision of some of the most cherished elements of early American cultural identity. The founding texts and writers of the Republic, he claims, did not wholly displace what they claimed to oppose. Instead, Downes argues, the entire construction of a...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 252 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). In this book, Rachel Blau DuPlessis shows how, through poetic language, modernist writers represented the debates around such social issues of modernity as suffrage, sexuality, manhood, and African-American and Jewish subjectivities. DuPlessis engages with the work of such...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 274 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Mary Esteve provides a study of crowd representations in Americanliterature from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century. Asa central icon of political and cultural democracy, the crowd occupiesa prominent place in the American literary and cultural landscape.Esteve...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 289 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature offers a rich, interdisciplinary treatment of modern black literature and cultural history, showing how debates over Africa in the works of major black writers generated productive models for imagining political agency. Yogita...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 806 p. The first major twenty-first-century history of four hundred years of black writing, The Cambridge History of African American Literature presents a comprehensive overview of the literary traditions, oral and print, of African-descended peoples in the United States. Expert contributors, drawn from the United States and beyond,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, -927 p. Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available today Covers fiction, poetry,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. — 417 p. — ISBN: 978-1-405-19231-6. A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day. Represents the only up-to-date concise history of American literature Covers fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction, as well as looking...
University of North Carolina Press, 2003. — 312 p. Anglo-American writers in the revolutionary era used pastoral images to place themselves as native to the continent, argues Thomas Hallock in From the Fallen Tree . Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, as territorial expansion got under way in earnest, and ending with the era of Indian dispossession, the author demonstrates...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 282 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Jeffrey Hammond's study of the funeral elegies of early New England reassesses a body of poems whose importance in their own time has been obscured by almost total neglect in ours. Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological and cultural contexts of these poems to...
Univerisity of Oklahoma Press, 1986. — 382 p. Recounts the life of the New York-born writer and explorer who lived among the Blackfeet Indians of Northwestern Montana during the late eighteen hundreds.
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 204 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). During the Progressive Era, the United States regularly suspended its own laws to regulate racialized populations. Judges and administrators relied on the rhetoric of sovereignty to justify such legal practices, while in American popular culture, sovereignty helped authors coin...
London: Longman, 1986. — 254 p. An Outline of American Literature provides lower intermediate level students with a complete survey of English prose, poetry and drama of the US from colonial times to the 1980s.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. — 312 p. — ISBN10: 0804791147; ISBN13: 978-0804791144. If America is a nation founded upon Enlightenment ideals, then why are so many of its most celebrated pieces of literature so dark? American Terror returns to the question of American literature's distinctive tone of terror through a close study of three authors — Jonathan Edwards,...
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001. — 334 p. The humor of the Old South — tales, almanac entries, turf reports, historical sketches, gentlemen's essays on outdoor sports, profiles of local characters — flourished between 1830 and 1860. The genre's popularity and influence can be traced in the works of major southern writers such as William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell,...
Princeton University Press, 2008. — 247 p. Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as Gavin Jones argues, poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite recent interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized. These insights lay the groundwork for American...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — (Cambridge Companions to Literature). Original essays by twelve distinguished international scholars offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of scholarship. This Companion also features a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 248 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite reads Frost's poetry within a theoretical perspective generated, but not limited by feminist analysis, and it evaluates Frost's persistent feminizing of poetic language in ways that he typically dramatizes as both erotic and humiliating....
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 365 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). John D. Kerkering's study examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America. Kerkering argues that writers such as DuBois, Lanier, Simms, and Scott used poetic effects to assert the distinctiveness of certain groups in a diffuse social...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 334 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem is a critical and historical interpretation of "Oriental" influences on American modernist poetry. Kern equates Fenollosa and Pound's "discovery" of Chinese writing with the American pursuit of a natural language for poetry, what...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 303 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). This book examines the early work of William Carlos Williams in relationship to a women's tradition of American poetry, as represented by Mina Loy, Denise Levertov and Kathleen Fraser--three generations of women poets working in or directly from a modernist tradition. Linda...
New York: Facts on File, 2007. — 415 p. — ISBN10: 0816064172; ISBN13: 978-0816064175. Widely acclaimed as one of the finest short-story writers and known for her acerbic wit, complex themes, and illuminating portrayal of the American South, Flannery O'Connor is a favourite among students, scholars, and general readers. This text examines her life and works and critically...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 217 p. Although the impact of works such as Common Sense and The Rights of Man has led historians to study Thomas Paine’s role in the American Revolution and political scientists to evaluate his contributions to political theory, scholars have tacitly agreed not to treat him as a literary figure. This book not only redresses this omission,...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 221 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). The theme of inequality has often dominated academic criticism, which has been concerned with identifying, analyzing, and demystifying various regimes of power and the illicit hierarchies upon which they are built. Studies of the United States in the nineteenth century have...
Iowa City: University Of Iowa Press, 2006. — 303 p. — ISBN10: 1587295083; ISBN13: 978-1587295089 — (Contemporary North American Poetry) In this nuanced revisionist history of modern American poetry, John Lowney investigates the Depression era’s impact on late modernist American poetry from the socioeconomic crisis of the 1930s through the emergence of the new social movements...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 256 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). This book suggests an interpretation of the characteristic qualities of Scottish and American literatures. Considering the self-consciously different stance which sets them apart from English literature, the author develops the constituents of the 'puritan-provincial vision': a...
Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006 — 264 p. — ISBN10: 140510127X; ISBN13: 978-1405101271. This introduction to American literature and culture from 1900 to 1960 is organized around four major ideas about America: that is it "big," "new," "rich," and "free." Illustrates the artistic and social climate in the USA during this period. Juxtaposes discussion of history, popular...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 295 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). This is the first thorough account of the many attempts during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to fashion a distinctly American epic literature from a wide range of potentially heroic New World subjects. McWilliams considers the cultural, political and literary...
This work consists of short excerpts of criticism of 20th-century American authors by important critics writing in newspapers, magazines, scholarly journals, and books. The excepts (ranging in length from one or two paragraphs to two columns) are allowed to stand on their own without separate plot synopses, summaries, or background information on the authors. The original words...
Wiley Blackwell, 2014. — 332 p. Timely and beautifully written, New England Beyond Criticism provides a passionate defense of the importance of the literature of New England to the American literary canon, and its impact on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America. An exploration and defense of the prominence of New England's literary tradition within...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 229 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). In American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens, Mark Noble examines writers who share the assumption that personhood can be understood as a material event. Through new readings of Whitman, Emerson, Santayana, and Stevens, Noble uncovers a literary history wrestling with...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 348 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Interpreting specific poems by some of the best known Chicano writers, this book studies the central aesthetic and thematic concerns recent Chicano poetry addresses. Drawing on current theories of postmodernity and postcoloniality, it places a "minority" literature within the...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 288 p. — (Oxford Studies in American Literary History). In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, fired from Salem's Custom House and returning to writing, reconceived his old job title, Surveyor of Customs, as his new one. Taking seriously this naming of the American author's project, Joel Pfister argues that writers from Benjamin Franklin to Louise...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 336 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). — ISBN: 978-0-521-36273-3, 978-0-521-11000-6. Joel Porte offers a timely reassessment of nineteenth century literature, focusing on the general question of the American Romantic ego and its varying modalities of self-creation, self-display, self-projection, and self-concealment....
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 233 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Renker gives an account of the rise and fall of American Literary Studies (she dates their uncertain rise between the years 1880-1930, and then a period of relative stability between the years 1930-1980) but more interesting to this reader is her account of the rise and fall of...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 248 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Moving boldly between literary analysis and political theory, contemporary and antebellum US culture, Arthur Riss invites readers to rethink prevailing accounts of the relationship between slavery, liberalism, and literary representation. Situating Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet...
University of Nevada Press, 2009. — 512 p. The wolf is one of the most widely distributed canid species, historically ranging throughout most of the Northern Hemisphere. For millennia, it has also been one of the most pervasive images in human mythology, art, and psychology. Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature examines the wolf’s importance as a figure in literature...
Blackwell Publishing, 2004. — 483 p. Notes on Contributors. Shirley Samuels. Historical and Cultural Contexts. 1 National Narrative and the Problem of American Nationhood. J. Gerald Kennedy. Fiction and Democracy. Paul Downes. Democratic Fictions. Sandra M. Gustafson. Engendering American Fictions. Martha J. Cutter and Caroline F. Levander. Race and Ethnicity. Robert S. Levine....
Berkeley, CA: Shoemaker and Hoard, 2007. — 576 p. — ISBN10: 1593761589; ISBN13: 978-1593761585. The Poem of a Life is the first critical biography of Louis Zukofsky, a fascinating and crucially important American modernist poet. It details the curve of his career, from the early Waste Land-parody “Poem beginning 'The'” (1926) to the dense and tantalizing beauties of his last...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0521536472; ISBN13: 978-0521536479. Offering original perspectives from new amd established Auden critics and others, this volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W.H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century....
University of Alabama Press, 2014. — 248 p. Artistic Liberties is a landmark study of the illustrations that originally accompanied now-classic works of American literary realism and the ways editors, authors, and illustrators vied for authority over the publications. Though today, we commonly read major works of nineteenth-century American literature in unillustrated...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 190 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). In this innovative study, Michael Staub recasts 1930s cultural history by analyzing those genres characteristic of the Depression era: Staub argues that several thirties writers were aware of the ambiguousness of historical truth, and the impossibility of representing reality...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. — 630 p. An authoritative guide to American literature, this Companion examines the experimental forms, socio-cultural changes, literary movements, and major authors of the early 20th century. This Companion provides authoritative and wide-ranging guidance on early twentieth-century American fiction. Considers commonly studied authors such as Faulkner,...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 256 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). The frontier romance, an enormously popular genre of American fiction born in the 1820s, helped redefine 'race' for an emerging national culture. Ezra Tawil argues that the novel of white-Indian conflict provided authors and readers with an apt analogy for the problem of...
Publié par l’United States Information Agency. — 118 p. Depuis deux siècles, de l’époque précoloniale au temps présent, la littérature américaine a suivi un long chemin capricieux. La société, l’histoire, la technologie ont eu sur elle un puissant impact. En fin de compte, une constante demeure – l’humanité, avec son rayonnement et sa malignité, ses traditions et ses promesses....
United States Department of State. Revised Edition. — 179 p. The Outline of American Literature traces the paths of American narrative, fiction, poetry and drama as they move from pre-colonial times into the present, through such literary movements as romanticism, realism and experimentation. Early American and Colonial Period to 1776. Democratic Origins and Revolutionary...
Bureau of International Information Programs, US Department of State. — 40 p. USA Literature in Brief pinpoints and describes the contributions to American literature of some of the best-recognized American poets, novelists, philosophers and dramatists from pre-Colonial days through the present. Early American Writing Literary Independence: James Fenimore Cooper New England...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 410 p. The History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present offers a comprehensive analysis of the wide range of literary works that extends into the 21st centuryCovers drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, science fiction, and detective novelsFeatures discussion of American works within the context of such 21st-century issues as...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 410 p. The History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present offers a comprehensive analysis of the wide range of literary works that extends into the 21st centuryCovers drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, science fiction, and detective novelsFeatures discussion of American works within the context of such 21st-century issues as...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 410 p. The History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present offers a comprehensive analysis of the wide range of literary works that extends into the 21st centuryCovers drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, science fiction, and detective novelsFeatures discussion of American works within the context of such 21st-century issues as...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 256 p. — (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture). Cindy Weinstein radically revises our understanding of nineteenth-century sentimental literature. Arguing that these novels are far more complex than critics have suggested, Weinstein expands the archive of sentimental novels to include some of the more popular, though...
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