"The Cambridge History of the American Essay tells the rich history of a literary genre that has been essential to the formation of an American identity. The most expansive of its kind, this volume conveys the diversity and philosophical richness of American writing from the country's origins to today"--
"The Cambridge History of the American Essay tells the rich history of a literary genre that has been essential to the formation of an American identity. The most expansive of its kind, this volume conveys the diversity and philosophical richness of American writing from the country's origins to today"--
Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Christy Wampole Part I. The Emergence of the American Essay (1710-1865) 1. Essays to do good: puritanism and the birth of the American essay Jan Stievermann 2. Prattlers, meddlers, bachelors, busy-bodies: the periodical essay in the eighteenth century Richard Squibbs 3. The federalist and the founders Matthew Garrett 4. American nature writing: 1700-1900 Noah Rawlings 5. The essay and transcendentalism Laura Dassow Walls 6. Old world Shadows in the new: Europe and the nineteenth-century American essay Philip Coleman 7. Poet-essayists and magazine culture in the nineteenth century John Michael 8. Antebellum women essayists Charlene Avallone Part II. Voicing the American Experiment (1865-1945) 9. Writing freedom before and after emancipation Kinohi Nishikawa 10. Social justice and the American essay Christy Wampole 11. 'Zones of contention' in the genteel essay Jenny Spinner 12. The American comic essay David E. E. Sloane 13. Nineteenth-century American travel essays: aesthetics, modernity, and national identity Brigitte Bailey 14. American pragmatism: an essayistic conception of truth Jonathan Levin 15. The essay in the Harlem renaissance Shawn Anthony Christian 16. The southern agrarians and the new criticism Sarah E. Gardner 17. Subjective and objective: newspaper columns William E. Dow 18. The experience of art: the essay in visual culture Tom Huhn 19. The essay in American music Kyle Gann Part III: Postwar Essays and Essayism (1945-2000) 20. The essay and the twentieth-century literary magazine Eleni Theodoropoulos 21. Germans in Amerika: written possibility, uninhabitable reality Florian Fuchs 22. The essay and the American left Andrea Capra 23. The native American essay Hertha D. Sweet Wong 24. Conservatism and the essay Jeffrey R. Dudas 25. Opinions and decisions: legal essays Peter Goodrich 26. World War Two to #MeToo: the personal and the political in the American feminist essay Ellena Savage 27. Self-portraits in a convex mirror: the essay in American poetry Lucy Alford 28. The American essay and (social) science Ted Anton 29. Philosophy as a kind of writing Paul Jenner 30. The essay and literary postmodernism: seriousness and exhaustion Stefano Ercolino Part IV: Toward the Contemporary American Essay (2000-2020) 31. The American essay film: a neglected genre Nora M. Alter 32. Literary theory, criticism, and the essay Carolina Iribarren 33. Gender, queerness, and the American essay David Lazar 34. Disability and the American essay Anne Finger 35. The radical hybridity of the lyric essay Michael Askew 36. Writing migration: multiculturalism, democracy, and the essay form Cyrus R.K. Patell 37. Latinx culture and the essay Yolanda Padilla 38. Black experience through the essay Walton Muyumba 39. The essay and the anthropocene David Carlin Recommendations for Further Reading Index.
Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Christy Wampole Part I. The Emergence of the American Essay (1710-1865) 1. Essays to do good: puritanism and the birth of the American essay Jan Stievermann 2. Prattlers, meddlers, bachelors, busy-bodies: the periodical essay in the eighteenth century Richard Squibbs 3. The federalist and the founders Matthew Garrett 4. American nature writing: 1700-1900 Noah Rawlings 5. The essay and transcendentalism Laura Dassow Walls 6. Old world Shadows in the new: Europe and the nineteenth-century American essay Philip Coleman 7. Poet-essayists and magazine culture in the nineteenth century John Michael 8. Antebellum women essayists Charlene Avallone Part II. Voicing the American Experiment (1865-1945) 9. Writing freedom before and after emancipation Kinohi Nishikawa 10. Social justice and the American essay Christy Wampole 11. 'Zones of contention' in the genteel essay Jenny Spinner 12. The American comic essay David E. E. Sloane 13. Nineteenth-century American travel essays: aesthetics, modernity, and national identity Brigitte Bailey 14. American pragmatism: an essayistic conception of truth Jonathan Levin 15. The essay in the Harlem renaissance Shawn Anthony Christian 16. The southern agrarians and the new criticism Sarah E. Gardner 17. Subjective and objective: newspaper columns William E. Dow 18. The experience of art: the essay in visual culture Tom Huhn 19. The essay in American music Kyle Gann Part III: Postwar Essays and Essayism (1945-2000) 20. The essay and the twentieth-century literary magazine Eleni Theodoropoulos 21. Germans in Amerika: written possibility, uninhabitable reality Florian Fuchs 22. The essay and the American left Andrea Capra 23. The native American essay Hertha D. Sweet Wong 24. Conservatism and the essay Jeffrey R. Dudas 25. Opinions and decisions: legal essays Peter Goodrich 26. World War Two to #MeToo: the personal and the political in the American feminist essay Ellena Savage 27. Self-portraits in a convex mirror: the essay in American poetry Lucy Alford 28. The American essay and (social) science Ted Anton 29. Philosophy as a kind of writing Paul Jenner 30. The essay and literary postmodernism: seriousness and exhaustion Stefano Ercolino Part IV: Toward the Contemporary American Essay (2000-2020) 31. The American essay film: a neglected genre Nora M. Alter 32. Literary theory, criticism, and the essay Carolina Iribarren 33. Gender, queerness, and the American essay David Lazar 34. Disability and the American essay Anne Finger 35. The radical hybridity of the lyric essay Michael Askew 36. Writing migration: multiculturalism, democracy, and the essay form Cyrus R.K. Patell 37. Latinx culture and the essay Yolanda Padilla 38. Black experience through the essay Walton Muyumba 39. The essay and the anthropocene David Carlin Recommendations for Further Reading Index.
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