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Table of 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

1. The Transformation of Literary Production, 1820-1865

Susan Belasco

2. Travel Writing

Susan L. Roberson

3. The Historical Romance

Monika M. Elbert and Leland S. Person

4. The Gothic Tale

Gerald Kennedy

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Transcendentalism

Phyllis Cole

6. Henry David Thoreau and the Literature of the Environment

Rochelle L. Johnson

7. Herman Melville and the Antebellum Reading Public

David O. Dowling

8. Women Writers at Midcentury

Nicole Tonkovich

9. Popular Poetry and the Rise of Anthologies

Amanda Gailey

10. Walt Whitman and the New York Literary World

Edward Whitley

11. Emily Dickinson and the Tradition of Women Poets

Elizabeth A. Petrino

12. The Literature of Antebellum Reform

Linck Johnson

13. Sex, the Body, and Health Reform

David Greven

14. Proslavery and Antislavery Literature

Susan M. Ryan

15. Gender and the Construction of Antebellum Slave Narratives

Philathia Bolton and Venetria Patton

16. Antebellum Oratory

John C. Briggs

17. Literature and the Civil War

Shirley Samuels

18. Disability and Literature

Mary Klages

19. The Development of Print Culture, 1865-1914

William Hardwig

20. Local Color and the Rise of Regionalism

Anne Boyd Rioux

21. Poetry, Periodicals, and the Marketplace

Nadia Nurhussein

22. Realism from William Dean Howells to Edith Wharton

Alfred Bendixen

23. Mark Twain and the Idea of American Identity

Andrew Levy

24. Henry James at Home and Abroad

John Carlos Rowe

25. Naturalism

Donna Campbell

26. Social Protest Fiction

Alicia Mischa Renfroe

27. The Immigrant Experience

James Nagel

28. Double Consciousness: African American Writers at the Turn of the Century

Shirley Moody-Turner

29. Native American Voices

Cari Carpenter

30. Latina/o Voices

Jesse Alemán

31. 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

1. Magazines, Little and Large: American Print Culture in the Early Twentieth Century

Jayne E. Marek

2. Regional Literary Expressions

Philip Joseph

3. The Literature of the U.S. South: Modernism and Beyond

John Wharton Lowe

4. American Literature and the Academy

Eric Bennett

5. The Literature of World War I

Hazel Hutchison

6. The Course of Modern American Poetry

Charles Altieri

7. Modernism and the American Novel

Linda Wagner-Martin

8. The Little Theatre Movement

DeAnna M. Toten Beard

9. The Lost Generation and American Expatriatism

Michael Soto

10. The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro

Maureen Honey

11. Proletarian Literature

Barbara Foley

12. Realism in American Drama

Brenda Murphy

13. Nature Writing and the New Environmentalism

Karla Armbruster

14. The Literature and Film of World War II

Philip Beidler

15. The Beat Minds of Their Generation

David Sterritt

16. The Black Arts Movement and the Racial Divide

Amy Abugo Ongiri

17. Literary Self-Fashioning in the Pharmacological Age: Confessional Poetry

Michael Thurston

18. New Frontiers in Postmodern Theater

Kerstin Schmidt

19. Poetry at the End of the Millennium

John Lowney

20. The Literature and Film of the Vietnam War

Mark A. Heberle

21. Gay and Lesbian Literature

Guy Davidson

22. American Literature in Languages Other than English

Steven G. Kellman

23. Jewish American Literary Forms

Victoria Aarons

24. Native American Literary Forms

Thomas C. Gannon

25. Asian American Literary Forms

Una Chung

26. Latina/o Literary Forms

Marta Caminero-Santangelo

27. African American Fiction After Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Michael Hill

28. Creative Nonfictions

Barrie Jean Borich

29. The Rise and Nature of the Graphic Novel

Stephen E. Tabachnick

30. The Digital Revolution and the Future of American Reading

Naomi S. Baron

Index to Volume III

Consolidated Index

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      Book Synopsis


      Table of 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

      1. The Transformation of Literary Production, 1820-1865

      Susan Belasco

      2. Travel Writing

      Susan L. Roberson

      3. The Historical Romance

      Monika M. Elbert and Leland S. Person

      4. The Gothic Tale

      Gerald Kennedy

      5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Transcendentalism

      Phyllis Cole

      6. Henry David Thoreau and the Literature of the Environment

      Rochelle L. Johnson

      7. Herman Melville and the Antebellum Reading Public

      David O. Dowling

      8. Women Writers at Midcentury

      Nicole Tonkovich

      9. Popular Poetry and the Rise of Anthologies

      Amanda Gailey

      10. Walt Whitman and the New York Literary World

      Edward Whitley

      11. Emily Dickinson and the Tradition of Women Poets

      Elizabeth A. Petrino

      12. The Literature of Antebellum Reform

      Linck Johnson

      13. Sex, the Body, and Health Reform

      David Greven

      14. Proslavery and Antislavery Literature

      Susan M. Ryan

      15. Gender and the Construction of Antebellum Slave Narratives

      Philathia Bolton and Venetria Patton

      16. Antebellum Oratory

      John C. Briggs

      17. Literature and the Civil War

      Shirley Samuels

      18. Disability and Literature

      Mary Klages

      19. The Development of Print Culture, 1865-1914

      William Hardwig

      20. Local Color and the Rise of Regionalism

      Anne Boyd Rioux

      21. Poetry, Periodicals, and the Marketplace

      Nadia Nurhussein

      22. Realism from William Dean Howells to Edith Wharton

      Alfred Bendixen

      23. Mark Twain and the Idea of American Identity

      Andrew Levy

      24. Henry James at Home and Abroad

      John Carlos Rowe

      25. Naturalism

      Donna Campbell

      26. Social Protest Fiction

      Alicia Mischa Renfroe

      27. The Immigrant Experience

      James Nagel

      28. Double Consciousness: African American Writers at the Turn of the Century

      Shirley Moody-Turner

      29. Native American Voices

      Cari Carpenter

      30. Latina/o Voices

      Jesse Alemán

      31. 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

      1. Magazines, Little and Large: American Print Culture in the Early Twentieth Century

      Jayne E. Marek

      2. Regional Literary Expressions

      Philip Joseph

      3. The Literature of the U.S. South: Modernism and Beyond

      John Wharton Lowe

      4. American Literature and the Academy

      Eric Bennett

      5. The Literature of World War I

      Hazel Hutchison

      6. The Course of Modern American Poetry

      Charles Altieri

      7. Modernism and the American Novel

      Linda Wagner-Martin

      8. The Little Theatre Movement

      DeAnna M. Toten Beard

      9. The Lost Generation and American Expatriatism

      Michael Soto

      10. The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro

      Maureen Honey

      11. Proletarian Literature

      Barbara Foley

      12. Realism in American Drama

      Brenda Murphy

      13. Nature Writing and the New Environmentalism

      Karla Armbruster

      14. The Literature and Film of World War II

      Philip Beidler

      15. The Beat Minds of Their Generation

      David Sterritt

      16. The Black Arts Movement and the Racial Divide

      Amy Abugo Ongiri

      17. Literary Self-Fashioning in the Pharmacological Age: Confessional Poetry

      Michael Thurston

      18. New Frontiers in Postmodern Theater

      Kerstin Schmidt

      19. Poetry at the End of the Millennium

      John Lowney

      20. The Literature and Film of the Vietnam War

      Mark A. Heberle

      21. Gay and Lesbian Literature

      Guy Davidson

      22. American Literature in Languages Other than English

      Steven G. Kellman

      23. Jewish American Literary Forms

      Victoria Aarons

      24. Native American Literary Forms

      Thomas C. Gannon

      25. Asian American Literary Forms

      Una Chung

      26. Latina/o Literary Forms

      Marta Caminero-Santangelo

      27. African American Fiction After Hiroshima and Nagasaki

      Michael Hill

      28. Creative Nonfictions

      Barrie Jean Borich

      29. The Rise and Nature of the Graphic Novel

      Stephen E. Tabachnick

      30. The Digital Revolution and the Future of American Reading

      Naomi S. Baron

      Index to Volume III

      Consolidated Index

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