Richard Gray

A History of American Literature (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 912
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444345674
• Artikelnr.: 38307525

Autorenporträt

Richard Gray is Professor of Literature at the University of Essex and former Distinguished Visiting Professor at a number of universities in the United States. He is the first specialist in American literature to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy and has published over a dozen books on the topic, including the award-winning Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region (1986) and The Life of William Faulkner: A Critical Biography (1994). His History of American Literature (Blackwell, 2004) is widely considered to be one of the standard works on the subject.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xi 1 The First Americans: American Literature Before and
During the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 1 Imagining Eden 1 Native
American Oral Traditions 4 Spanish and French Encounters with America 14
Anglo-American Encounters 21 Writing of the Colonial and Revolutionary
Periods 27 Puritan narratives 28 Challenges to the Puritan oligarchy 32
Some colonial poetry 36 Enemies within and without 44 Trends toward the
secular and resistance 48 Toward the Revolution 60 Alternative voices of
Revolution 69 Writing Revolution: Poetry, drama, fiction 75 2 Inventing
Americas: The Making of American Literature, 1800-1865 88 Making a Nation
88 The Making of American Myths 92 Myths of an emerging nation 92 The
making of Western myth 95 The making of Southern myth 105 Legends of the
Old Southwest 109 The Making of American Selves 114 The Transcendentalists
114 Voices of African-American identity 126 The Making of Many Americas 133
Native American writing 134 Oral culture of the Hispanic Southwest 139
African-American polemic and poetry 141 Abolitionist and pro-slavery
writing 145 Abolitionism and feminism 154 African-American writing 161 The
Making of an American Fiction and Poetry 171 The emergence of American
narratives 171 Women writers and storytellers 190 Spirituals and folk songs
196 American poetic voices 199 3 Reconstructing the Past, Reimagining the
Future: The Development of American Literature, 1865-1900 219 Rebuilding a
Nation 219 The Development of Literary Regionalism 224 From Adam to
outsider 224 Regionalism in the West and Midwest 231 African-American and
Native American voices 233 Regionalism in New England 235 Regionalism in
the South 239 The Development of Literary Realism and Naturalism 255
Capturing the commonplace 255 Capturing the real thing 259 Toward
Naturalism 269 The Development of Women's Writing 281 Writing by
African-American women 281 Writing and the condition of women 284 The
Development of Many Americas 290 Things fall apart 290 Voices of resistance
293 Voices of reform 295 The immigrant encounter 299 4 Making It New: The
Emergence of Modern American Literature, 1900-1945 308 Changing National
Identities 308 Between Victorianism and Modernism 320 The problem of race
320 Building bridges: Women writers 326 Critiques of American provincial
life 336 Poetry and the search for form 345 The Inventions of Modernism 359
Imagism, Vorticism, and Objectivism 359 Making it new in poetry 367 Making
it new in prose 397 Making it new in drama 420 Traditionalism, Politics,
and Prophecy 431 The uses of traditionalism 431 Populism and radicalism 446
Prophetic voices 462 Community and Identity 466 Immigrant writing 466
Native American voices 472 The literature of the New Negro movement and
beyond 476 Mass Culture and the Writer 503 Western, detective, and
hardboiled fiction 503 Humorous writing 509 Fiction and popular culture 512
5 Negotiating the American Century: American Literature since 1945 519
Toward a Transnational Nation 519 Formalists and Confessionals 532 From the
mythological eye to the lonely "I" in poetry 532 From formalism to freedom
in poetry 540 The uses of formalism 548 Confessional poetry 554 New
formalists, new confessionals 563 Public and Private Histories 568
Documentary and dream in prose 568 Contested identities in prose 576
Crossing borders: Some women prose writers 588 Beats, Prophets, Aesthetes,
and New Formalists 599 Rediscovering the American voice: The Black Mountain
writers 599 Restoring the American vision: The San Francisco Renaissance
606 Recreating American rhythms: The beat generation 610 Reinventing the
American self: The New York poets 615 Redefining American poetry: The New
Formalists 623 Resisting orthodoxy: Dissent and experiment in fiction 631
The Art and Politics of Race 640 Defining a new black aesthetic 640
Defining a new black identity in prose 651 Defining a new black identity in
drama 663 Telling impossible stories: Recent African-American fiction 668
Realism and its Discontents 678 Confronting the real, stretching the
realistic in drama 678 New Journalists and dirty realists 700 Language and
Genre 705 Watching nothing: Postmodernity in prose 705 The actuality of
words: Postmodern poetry 720 Signs and scenes of crime, science fiction,
and fantasy 727 Creating New Americas 740 Dreaming history: European
immigrant writing 740 Remapping a nation: Chicano/a and Latino/a writing
748 Improvising America: Asian-American writing 763 New and ancient songs:
The return of the Native American 779 After the Fall: American Literature
since 9/11 795 Writing the crisis in prose 795 Writing the crisis in drama
809 Writing the crisis in poetry 816 Further Reading 829 Index 857

Rezensionen

"Richard Gray's real achievement is somehow to have compressed more than 400 years of thrillingly rich literary history between two covers." (Literary Review)