American Literature and the Academy: The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession (Anniversary Collection)

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Book One: Roots 1 Prelude: Origins of the CHAL 2 Organizing the CHAL Team 3 Preface to Volume I: Trailblazers in the Nationalist Era of Samuel Knapp 4 Rufus W. Griswold and the Collectors' Marketplace 5 The Duyckincks among the Young Americans, the Knickerbockers, and Others 6 Moses Coit Tyler and the Rise of American Literary History 7 Charles F. Richardson and the Ferment of the Eighties 8 Barrett Wendell in a Turn-of-the-Century Harvest 9 The CHAL (Volume I) Appears 10 And Then Volume II 11 Interim: Some Insurgent Critics versus "the Professors 12 The CHAL Completed Book Two: Growth 13 A New Era: The Profession Establishes a Political Voice 14 American Literature in the University: Study and Debate in the 1920s 15 The Reinterpretation of American Literature (1928) Professional Scholarship after the CHAL 16 American Literature (1929): The Profession Has aJournal 17 Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought (1927-1930) 18 The Heirs of Parrington: Four Leftist Historiesduring the Great Depression 19 More Advocacy in the Thirties: Humanists,Agrarians, Freudians, and Nationalists 20 American Literature in the University: Curriculum,Graduate Research, and Controversy in the Thirties 21 Journals and Other Instruments of the New Scholarship Book Three: Maturity 22 The Profession Plans a New Literary History 23 The Cooperative History Goes Independent: Organization and Theory (1942-1943) 24 The Editors in Profile (1943) 25 Screening the Contributors—and Early Contributions (1943-1944) 26 American Literature and the Academy during WorldWar II (1939-1945) 27 The LHUS: Shaping the Text (1945-1948) 28 Reception of the LHUS: Summary Estimate of the Profession Postwar Epilogue Appendix Notes Index Walt Whitman wrote in 1891, the year before his death, that "to have great heroic poetry we need great readers-a heroic appetite and audience." Kermit Vanderbilt. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [549]-589.