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A History of American Literature

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Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

18.11.2011

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

926

Maße (L/B/H)

25,4/17,8/5 cm

Gewicht

1707 g

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-9228-6

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"Richard Gray s real achievement is somehow to have compressed more than 400 years of thrillingly rich literary history between two covers." ( Literary Review )

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

18.11.2011

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

926

Maße (L/B/H)

25,4/17,8/5 cm

Gewicht

1707 g

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-9228-6

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

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  • Produktbild: A History of American Literature
  • Acknowledgments xi

    1 The First Americans: American Literature Before and During the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 1

    Imagining Eden 1

    Native American Oral Traditions 4

    Spanish and French Encounters with America 14

    Anglo-American Encounters 21

    Writing of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 27

    Puritan narratives 28

    Challenges to the Puritan oligarchy 32

    Some colonial poetry 36

    Enemies within and without 44

    Trends toward the secular and resistance 48

    Toward the Revolution 60

    Alternative voices of Revolution 69

    Writing Revolution: Poetry, drama, fiction 75

    2 Inventing Americas: The Making of American Literature, 1800-1865 88

    Making a Nation 88

    The Making of American Myths 92

    Myths of an emerging nation 92

    The making of Western myth 95

    The making of Southern myth 105

    Legends of the Old Southwest 109

    The Making of American Selves 114

    The Transcendentalists 114

    Voices of African-American identity 126

    The Making of Many Americas 133

    Native American writing 134

    Oral culture of the Hispanic Southwest 139

    African-American polemic and poetry 141

    Abolitionist and pro-slavery writing 145

    Abolitionism and feminism 154

    African-American writing 161

    The Making of an American Fiction and Poetry 171

    The emergence of American narratives 171

    Women writers and storytellers 190

    Spirituals and folk songs 196

    American poetic voices 199

    3 Reconstructing the Past, Reimagining the Future: The Development of American Literature, 1865-1900 219

    Rebuilding a Nation 219

    The Development of Literary Regionalism 224

    From Adam to outsider 224

    Regionalism in the West and Midwest 231

    African-American and Native American voices 233

    Regionalism in New England 235

    Regionalism in the South 239

    The Development of Literary Realism and Naturalism 255

    Capturing the commonplace 255

    Capturing the real thing 259

    Toward Naturalism 269

    The Development of Women's Writing 281

    Writing by African-American women 281

    Writing and the condition of women 284

    The Development of Many Americas 290

    Things fall apart 290

    Voices of resistance 293

    Voices of reform 295

    The immigrant encounter 299

    4 Making It New: The Emergence of Modern American Literature, 1900-1945 308

    Changing National Identities 308

    Between Victorianism and Modernism 320

    The problem of race 320

    Building bridges: Women writers 326

    Critiques of American provincial life 336

    Poetry and the search for form 345

    The Inventions of Modernism 359

    Imagism, Vorticism, and Objectivism 359

    Making it new in poetry 367

    Making it new in prose 397

    Making it new in drama 420

    Traditionalism, Politics, and Prophecy 431

    The uses of traditionalism 431

    Populism and radicalism 446

    Prophetic voices 462

    Community and Identity 466

    Immigrant writing 466

    Native American voices 472

    The literature of the New Negro movement and beyond 476

    Mass Culture and the Writer 503

    Western, detective, and hardboiled fiction 503

    Humorous writing 509

    Fiction and popular culture 512

    5 Negotiating the American Century: American Literature since 1945 519

    Toward a Transnational Nation 519

    Formalists and Confessionals 532

    From the mythological eye to the lonely "I" in poetry 532

    From formalism to freedom in poetry 540

    The uses of formalism 548

    Confessional poetry 554

    New formalists, new confessionals 563

    Public and Private Histories 568

    Documentary and dream in prose 568

    Contested identities in prose 576

    Crossing borders: Some women prose writers 588

    Beats, Prophets, Aesthetes, and New Formalists 599

    Rediscovering the American voice: The Black Mountain writers 599

    Restoring the American vision: The San Francisco Renaissance 606

    Recreating American rhythms: The beat generation 610

    Reinventing the American self: The New York poets 615

    Redefining American poetry: The New Formalists 623

    Resisting orthodoxy: Dissent and experiment in fiction 631

    The Art and Politics of Race 640

    Defining a new black aesthetic 640

    Defining a new black identity in prose 651

    Defining a new black identity in drama 663

    Telling impossible stories: Recent African-American fiction 668

    Realism and its Discontents 678

    Confronting the real, stretching the realistic in drama 678

    New Journalists and dirty realists 700

    Language and Genre 705

    Watching nothing: Postmodernity in prose 705

    The actuality of words: Postmodern poetry 720

    Signs and scenes of crime, science fiction, and fantasy 727

    Creating New Americas 740

    Dreaming history: European immigrant writing 740

    Remapping a nation: Chicano/a and Latino/a writing 748

    Improvising America: Asian-American writing 763

    New and ancient songs: The return of the Native American 779

    After the Fall: American Literature since 9/11 795

    Writing the crisis in prose 795

    Writing the crisis in drama 809

    Writing the crisis in poetry 816

    Further Reading 829

    Index 857