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PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-101421427133
ISBN-139781421427133
eBay Product ID (ePID)28038738535
Product Key Features
Number of Pages360 Pages
Publication NameTimelines of American Literature
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGeneral, American / General, Semiotics & Theory, Essays
Publication Year2019
TypeTextbook
AuthorChristopher Hager
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Literary Collections
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight16.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2018-013351
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Timely, smart, and fun, this book will provoke some very interesting classroom conversations?and may well reshape the way lots of us teach American literature. A game-changing collection that offers a provocation to scholarship and to teaching, this lucid, lively book is a joy to read."?Dana D. Nelson, Vanderbilt University, author of Commons Democracy: Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States "Through a series of thought experiments and formal proposals, the contributors in Timelines of American Literature explore the 'revisionist potential' of a periodizing drive that is too often undertaken conservatively. A fresh essay collection with an exciting range of chapters and topics."?Hester Blum, Pennsylvania State University, author of The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives "Marrs and Hager have assembled a series of thought-provoking essays that expand our ways of thinking about American literature by questioning, lengthening, reversing, and even defending the timelines that have traditionally defined it."?Cindy Weinstein, California Institute of Technology, editor of A Question of Time: American Literature from Colonial Encounter to Contemporary Fiction " Timelines of American Literature shakes up disciplinary assumptions that have undergirded literary historiography for over a century. These fresh and provocative essays offer bracing alternatives to long-standard field chronologies, methodologies, and ideologies."?Elizabeth Renker, The Ohio State University, author of Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866?1900 "Marrs and Hager have assembled a rollicking and provocative collection of essays in this superlative volume. Ranging from a single year to several millennia, the ages, eras, and histories mapped by these essays imagine multiple expansive, inclusive, madcap, and shifting futures for American literature."?Elizabeth Duquette, Gettysburg College, author of Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America "In this bracing collection of essays, editors Cody Marrs and Christopher Hager and their contributors open up questions at the core of American literary studies. What are its durations, locations, and boundaries? How do we lend coherence to our endeavors? The answers offered are many, sometimes conflicting, always vital."?Samuel Otter, University of California, Berkeley, author of Philadelphia Stories: America's Literature of Race and Freedom
Grade FromCollege Freshman
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal810.9
Grade ToCollege Graduate Student
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction Cody Marrs and Christopher Hager Part 1. Prehistories and Transitions 2. Prologue. What's in a Date? Sandra Gustafson Prehistories 3. 1833-1932: American Literature's Other Scripts Erica Fretwell 4. 1922-1968: The Disenchanted Literature of Homeownership Adrienne Brown 5. 1830-1924: The Literatures of Sovereignty Phillip Round 6. 600 BCE-1830 CE: The Book of Mormon and the Lived Eschatology of Settler Colonialism Jared Hickman Transitions 7. 1629-1852: American Literature, Democracy, and the Patroons Jennifer Greiman 8. 1973: When It Changed Gerry Canavan 9. The Three Burials of Confederate Nationalism Coleman Hutchison 10. 1819-1857: Romantic Cycles from the Panic of 1819 to the Panic of 1857 Andrew Kopec 11. Reimagining 1820-1865 Robert S. Levine Part 2. Ages and the Long Present 12. Prologue. The Anthropocene, 1945/1783/1610/1492-? (or, I Wish I Knew How to Quit You) Dana Luciano Ages 13. The Age of US Latinidad Jesse Alemán 14. The Age of Van Buren Justine S. Murison 15. The Ages of Appalachian Literature Rachel A. Wise 16. The Civil War in the Age of Civil Rights Michael LeMahieu 17. The Age of Warhol Bryan Waterman The Long Present 18. All of It Is Now: Slavery and the Post-black Moment in Contemporary African American Literature Yogita Goyal 19. Propaganda and the Movement of American Literary History Russ Castronovo 20. De-ciphering American Literature: Caroline Levander 21. Methodological Individualism and the Novel in the Age of Microeconomics, 1871 to the Present Annie McClanahan 22. 1980 to the Present: Formalism and the New Authoritarianism Rachel Greenwald Smith 23. American Captivity Narratives from the Colonial Era to the Present: A New Timeline Birgit Brander Rasmussen 24. Afterword. The Newer Newest Thing: Reperiodizing, Redux Susan Gillman Appendix. Sample Syllabi Contributors Index
SynopsisIt 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., 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., 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. The authors in this collection believe it is high time we rethink these defining periods of American literary ......, 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. The authors in this collection believe it is high time we rethink these defining periods of American literary history. 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. Filled with challenges to scholars, inspirations for teachers, 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.
LC Classification NumberPS121.T48 2019
