Timelines of American Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvCody Marrs,Christopher Hager,Franklin College of Arts & Sciences) Marrs, Cody (Professor,Christopher (Trinity College) Hager

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A collection of engaging essays that seeks to uniquely reperiodize American literature.It is all but inevitable for literary history to be divided into periods. "Early American," "antebellum," "modern," "post-1945"—such designations organize our knowledge of the past and shape the ways we discuss that past today. These periods tend to align with the watershed moments in American history, even as the field has shifted its perspective away from the nation-state. It is high time we rethink these defining periods of American literary history, as the drawing of literary timelines is a necessary—even illuminating—practice.In these short, spirited, and imaginative essays, 23 leading Americanists gamely fashion new, unorthodox literary periods—from 600 B.C.E. to the present, from the Age of Van Buren to the Age of Microeconomics. They bring to light literary and cultural histories that have been obscured by traditional timelines and raise provocative questions. What is our definition of "modernism" if we imagine it stretching from 1865 to 1965 instead of 1890 to 1945? How does the captivity narrative change when we consider it as a contemporary, not just a "colonial," genre? What does the course of American literature look like set against the backdrop of federal denials of Native sovereignty or housing policies that exacerbated segregation? Filled with challenges to scholars, inspirations for teachers (anchored by an appendix of syllabi), and entry points for students, Timelines of American Literature gathers some of the most exciting new work in the field to showcase the revelatory potential of fresh thinking about how we organize the literary past.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-03-26
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt590 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor360
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9781421427126

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Cody Marrs is an associate professor of English at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War and the editor of The New Melville Studies. Christopher Hager is the Charles A. Dana Research Associate Professor of English at Trinity College. He is the author of Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing and I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments1. Introduction Cody Marrs and Christopher HagerPart 1. Prehistories and Transitions2. Prologue. What's in a Date? Sandra GustafsonPrehistories3. 1833-1932: American Literature's Other Scripts Erica Fretwell4. 1922-1968: The Disenchanted Literature of Homeownership Adrienne Brown5. 1830-1924: The Literatures of Sovereignty Phillip Round6. 600 BCE-1830 CE: The Book of Mormon and the Lived Eschatology of Settler Colonialism Jared HickmanTransitions7. 1629-1852: American Literature, Democracy, and the Patroons Jennifer Greiman8. 1973: When It Changed Gerry Canavan9. The Three Burials of Confederate Nationalism Coleman Hutchison10. 1819-1857: Romantic Cycles from the Panic of 1819 to the Panic of 1857 Andrew Kopec11. Reimagining 1820-1865 Robert S. LevinePart 2. Ages and the Long Present 12. Prologue. The Anthropocene, 1945/1783/1610/1492-???? (or, I Wish I Knew How to Quit You) Dana LucianoAges13. The Age of US Latinidad Jesse Alemán14. The Age of Van BurenJustine S. Murison15. The Ages of Appalachian Literature Rachel A. Wise16. The Civil War in the Age of Civil Rights Michael LeMahieu17. The Age of Warhol Bryan WatermanThe Long Present18. All of It Is Now: Slavery and the Post-black Moment in Contemporary African American Literature Yogita Goyal19. Propaganda and the Movement of American Literary History Russ Castronovo20. De-ciphering American Literature: Caroline Levander21. Methodological Individualism and the Novel in the Age of Microeconomics, 1871 to the Present Annie McClanahan22. 1980 to the Present: Formalism and the New Authoritarianism Rachel Greenwald Smith23. American Captivity Narratives from the Colonial Era to the Present: A New Timeline Birgit Brander Rasmussen24. Afterword. The Newer Newest Thing: Reperiodizing, Redux Susan GillmanAppendix. Sample Syllabi Contributors Index