{"product_id":"a-history-of-american-literature-paperback-softback-9781405192286","title":"A History of American Literature (Paperback \/ softback) 9781405192286","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA History of American Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This book is the first comprehensive, single volume history of American literature since The Columbia Literary History of the United States edited by Elliott Emory and published sixteen years ago. It is a puzzle, given the extraordinary interest in American literature at home and abroad, that so few full histories of American literature have been published. Consider the fact that the Columbia history arrived nearly four decades after R. E. Spiller's Literary History of the United States. What makes Gray's book so extraordinary is that it supercedes the Spiller and Emory texts in nearly every respect, and even challenges the supremacy of the titanic (this pun is intentional), multi-volume, still-evolving Cambridge History of American Literature. How Gray managed to so captivatingly capture the depth and breadth of so complex a literature in under a thousand pages is worth considering. [...] Richard Gray possesses the most balanced scholarship of the entire range of American literature I ever read. [...] This is the first history of American literature fully worthy of the multi-dimensionality of its subject.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eNorman Weinstein\u003c\/b\u003e, Boise State University\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard Gray (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781405192286, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 18 November 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e928 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.4 x 17 x 4.6 cm, 1.452 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Richard Gray's real achievement is somehow to have compressed more than 400 years of thrillingly rich literary history between two covers.\" (\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eUpdated throughout and with much new material, \u003ci\u003eA History of American Literature, Second Edition,\u003c\/i\u003e is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available today\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of literature including folktale, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller, and science fiction\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the plural character of American literature, including the contributions made by African American, Native American, Hispanic and Asian American writers\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past?thirty years\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSituates American literature in the contexts of American history, politics and society\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers an invaluable introduction to American literature for students at all levels, academic and general readers\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The First Americans: American Literature Before and During the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImagining Eden 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNative American Oral Traditions 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpanish and French Encounters with America 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnglo-American Encounters 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWriting of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePuritan narratives 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChallenges to the Puritan oligarchy 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome colonial poetry 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnemies within and without 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrends toward the secular and resistance 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToward the Revolution 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlternative voices of Revolution 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWriting Revolution: Poetry, drama, fiction 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Inventing Americas: The Making of American Literature, 1800–1865 88\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking a Nation 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Making of American Myths 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMyths of an emerging nation 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe making of Western myth 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe making of Southern myth 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLegends of the Old Southwest 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Making of American Selves 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Transcendentalists 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVoices of African-American identity 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Making of Many Americas 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNative American writing 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOral culture of the Hispanic Southwest 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrican-American polemic and poetry 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbolitionist and pro-slavery writing 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbolitionism and feminism 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrican-American writing 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Making of an American Fiction and Poetry 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe emergence of American narratives 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen writers and storytellers 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpirituals and folk songs 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican poetic voices 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Reconstructing the Past, Reimagining the Future: The Development of American Literature, 1865–1900 219\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRebuilding a Nation 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Development of Literary Regionalism 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Adam to outsider 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegionalism in the West and Midwest 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrican-American and Native American voices 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegionalism in New England 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegionalism in the South 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Development of Literary Realism and Naturalism 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCapturing the commonplace 255\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCapturing the real thing 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToward Naturalism 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Development of Women’s Writing 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWriting by African-American women 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWriting and the condition of women 284\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Development of Many Americas 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThings fall apart 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVoices of resistance 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVoices of reform 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe immigrant encounter 299\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Making It New: The Emergence of Modern American Literature, 1900–1945 308\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging National Identities 308\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBetween Victorianism and Modernism 320\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe problem of race 320\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding bridges: Women writers 326\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCritiques of American provincial life 336\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoetry and the search for form 345\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Inventions of Modernism 359\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImagism, Vorticism, and Objectivism 359\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking it new in poetry 367\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking it new in prose 397\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking it new in drama 420\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditionalism, Politics, and Prophecy 431\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe uses of traditionalism 431\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePopulism and radicalism 446\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProphetic voices 462\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunity and Identity 466\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImmigrant writing 466\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNative American voices 472\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe literature of the New Negro movement and beyond 476\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMass Culture and the Writer 503\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWestern, detective, and hardboiled fiction 503\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHumorous writing 509\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFiction and popular culture 512\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Negotiating the American Century: American Literature since 1945 519\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToward a Transnational Nation 519\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormalists and Confessionals 532\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the mythological eye to the lonely “I” in poetry 532\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom formalism to freedom in poetry 540\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe uses of formalism 548\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConfessional poetry 554\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew formalists, new confessionals 563\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic and Private Histories 568\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDocumentary and dream in prose 568\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContested identities in prose 576\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrossing borders: Some women prose writers 588\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeats, Prophets, Aesthetes, and New Formalists 599\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRediscovering the American voice: The Black Mountain writers 599\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRestoring the American vision: The San Francisco Renaissance 606\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecreating American rhythms: The beat generation 610\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReinventing the American self: The New York poets 615\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRedefining American poetry: The New Formalists 623\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResisting orthodoxy: Dissent and experiment in fiction 631\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Art and Politics of Race 640\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefining a new black aesthetic 640\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefining a new black identity in prose 651\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefining a new black identity in drama 663\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTelling impossible stories: Recent African-American fiction 668\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRealism and its Discontents 678\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConfronting the real, stretching the realistic in drama 678\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Journalists and dirty realists 700\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage and Genre 705\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWatching nothing: Postmodernity in prose 705\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe actuality of words: Postmodern poetry 720\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSigns and scenes of crime, science fiction, and fantasy 727\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreating New Americas 740\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDreaming history: European immigrant writing 740\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRemapping a nation: Chicano\/a and Latino\/a writing 748\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImprovising America: Asian-American writing 763\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew and ancient songs: The return of the Native American 779\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter the Fall: American Literature since 9\/11 795\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWriting the crisis in prose 795\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWriting the crisis in drama 809\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWriting the crisis in poetry 816\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 829\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 857\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literature: history \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature: history \u0026amp; 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