The American Literary History Reader
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Author | : Richard Gray |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 933 |
Release | : 2011-09-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1444345680 |
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, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of literature including folktale, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller, and science fiction Explores the plural character of American literature, including the contributions made by African American, Native American, Hispanic and Asian American writers Considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past?thirty years Situates American literature in the contexts of American history, politics and society Offers an invaluable introduction to American literature for students at all levels, academic and general readers
Author | : Elizabeth McHenry |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2002-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780822329954 |
DIVRecovers the history of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century African American reading societies./div
Author | : Gordon Hutner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 0195095049 |
"American Literary History" has emerged as the leading journal devoted to U. S. literary and cultural studies. In this anthology, 17 major scholars address subjects as diverse as Hawthorne's utopias, Indian pictographs, Emily Dickinson and class, and the Black Arts Movement.
Author | : Senior Lecturer of America Literature Elizabeth J Dell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2020-07-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781481312639 |
American Literary Cultures highlights literature written by regional authors--particularly those of Texas and the Southwest--and includes readings representative of a broad array of American social and ethnic groups from first contact to early twentieth-century Modernism. Tracing the diverse heritages and global impulses that shaped America, this reader engages undergraduate students by offering a unique collection of texts that comprise American literary cultures. The selections showcase a culturally rich and heterogeneous tradition--indigenous, Latino, European, and African. The narratives and counternarratives offered here introduce students to a diversity of voices--near and far, familiar and foreign, present and historical. Through ballads, lyrical poems, tall tales, short stories, speeches, sermons, memoirs, and discourses on language and literature, students encounter diverse and often challenging works of American literary culture. The texts within and the vast panoply of worldviews and personalities they reflect challenge students to critical, contextual, creative, and empathetic engagement with the past. Through such engagement, students will better appreciate the present as they prepare to become citizens of an increasingly globalized world.
Author | : James L. Machor |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801844379 |
Nineteenth-century America witnesses an unprecedented rise in reading activity as a result of increasing literacy, advances in printing and book production, and improvements in transporting printed material. As the act of reading took on new cultural and intellectual significance, American writers had to adjust to changes in their relationship with a growing audience. Calling for a new emphasis on historical analysis, Readers in History reconsiders reader-response and reception approaches to the shifting contexts of reading in nineteenth-century America. James L. Machor and his contirbutors dispute the "essentializing tendency" of much reader-response criticism to date, arguing that reading and the textual construction of audience can best be understood in light of historically specific interpretive practices, ideological frames, and social conditions. Employing a variety of perspectives and methods—including feminism, deconstruction, and cultural criticsim—the essays in this volume demonstrate the importance of historical inquiry for exploring the dynamics of audience engagement.
Author | : Peter Conn |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1989-08-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521303736 |
Professor Conn summarises the distinctive achievements of the American literary heritage from early 1600's to late 1980's.
Author | : Ronald J. Zboray |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781572334717 |
Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience among Antebellum New Englanders takes an unprecedented look at the use of literature in everyday life in one of history's most literate societies-the home ground of the American Renaissance. Using information pulled from four thousand manuscript letters and diaries, Everyday Ideas provides a comprehensive picture of how the social and literary dimensions of human existence related in antebellum New England. Penned by ordinary people-factory workers, farmers, clerks, storekeepers, domestics, and teachers and other professionals-the writings examined here brim with thoughtful references to published texts, lectures, and speeches by the period's canonized authors and lesser lights. These personal accounts also give an insider's perspective on issues ranging from economic problems, to social status conflicts, to being separated from loved ones by region, state, or nation. Everyday Ideas examines such references and accounts and interprets the multiple ways literature figured into the lives of these New Englanders. An important aid in understanding historical readers and social authorship practices, Everyday Ideas is a unique resource on New England and provides a framework for understanding the profound role of ideas in the everyday world of the antebellum period.
Author | : James D. Hart |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2022-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520368355 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.
Author | : Sarah Wadsworth |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781558495418 |
Tracing the segmentation of the literary marketplace in 19th century America, this book analyses the implications of the subdivided literary field for readers, writers, and literature itself.
Author | : Philipp Löffler |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3825367207 |
‘Reading the Canon’ explores the relation between the production of literary value and the problem of periodization, tracing how literary tastes, particular reader communities, and sites of literary learning shape the organization of literature in historical perspective. Rather than suggesting a political critique of the canon, this book shows that the production of literary relevance and its tacit hierarchies of value are necessary consequences of how reading and writing are organized as social practices within different fields of literary activity. ‘Reading the Canon’ offers a comprehensive theoretical account of the conundrums still defining contemporary debates about literary value; the book also features a series of historically-inflected author studies—from classics, such as Shakespeare and Thomas Pynchon, to less likely figures, such as John Neal and Owen Johnson—that illustrate how the idea of literary relevance has been appropriated throughout history and across a variety of national and transnational literary institutions.