A Companion to American Literary Studies (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

A Companion to American Literary Studies addresses the most provocative questions, subjects, and issues animating the field. Essays provide readers with the knowledge and conceptual tools for understanding American literary studies as it is practiced today, and chart new directions for the future of the subject. Offers up-to-date accounts of major new critical approaches to American literary studies Presents state-of-the-art essays on a full range of topics central to the field Essays explore critical and institutional genealogies of the field, increasingly diverse conceptions of American literary study, and unprecedented material changes such as the digital revolution A unique anthology in the field, and an essential resource for libraries, faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates Poetry, Prose And The Politics Of Literary Form / Russ Castronovo -- The Critical Work Of American Literature / Joel Pfister -- Women's Worlds In The Nineteenth-century Us Novel / Shirley Samuels -- The Secularization Narrative And Nineteenth-century American Literature / Elizabeth Fenton -- Literatures Of Technology, Technologies Of Literature / Paul Gilmore -- Excluded Middles : Social Inequality In American Literature / Gavin Jones -- Narrative Medicine, Biocultures And The Visualization Of Health And Disease / Kirsten Ostherr -- Performance Anxieties : The A-literary Companions Of American Literary Studies / Catherine Gunther Kodat -- Drama, Theatre And Performance Before O'neill / Jeffrey H. Richards -- Disliking It : American Poetry And American Literary Studies / Mary Loeffelholz -- After The New Americanists : The Progress Of Romance And The Romance Of Progress In American Literary Studies / Jennifer L. Fleissner --^ Mass Media And Literary Culture At The Turn Of The Twentieth Century / Nancy Bentley -- Cabeza De Vaca, Lope De Oviedo And Americas Exceptionalism / Anna Brickhouse -- Worlding America : The Hemispheric Text-network / Susan Gillman And Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- Worlds Of Color, Gender, Sexuality And Labor In Early American Literary History / Michelle Stephens -- Transatlantic Returne / Elisa Tamarkin -- American Literature In Transnational Perspective : The Case Of Mark Twain / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Southern Literary Studies / John T. Matthews -- New Regionalism : Us-caribbean Literary Relations / Sean X. Goudie -- American Literarure As Ecosystem : The Examples Of Euclides Da Cunha And Cormac Mccarthy / George B. Handley -- Settler States Of Feeling : National Belonging And The Erasure Of Native American Presence / Mark Rifkin -- Tribal Nations And The Other Territories Of American Indian Literary History / James H. Cox -- Globalization / Paul Giles --^ Democratic Cultures And The First Century Of Us Literature / Dana D. Nelson -- American Literature And Law / Brook Thomas -- Sexuality And American Literary Studies / Christopher Looby -- Exquisite Fragility : Human Being In The Aftermath Of War / Priscilla Wald -- The Posthuman Turn : Rewriting Species In Recent American Literature / Ursula K. Heise -- Narrative And Intellectual Disability / Michael Berube -- Reading For Asian American Literature / Colleen Lye -- Untangling Genealogy's Tangled Skeins : Alexander Crummell, James Mccune Smith And Nineteenth-century Black Literary Traditions / Carla L. Peterson -- Speculative Realism And The Postrace Aesthetic In Contemporary American Fiction / Ramon Saldivar -- The New Life Of The New Forms : American Literary Studies And The Digital Humanities / Matt Cohen. Edited By Caroline F. Levander And Robert S. Levine. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Pt. 1. Forms -- pt. 2. Spaces -- pt. 3. Practices