Companion to American Literature, 3 Volume Set

Susan Belasco is Professor Emerita and former Chair of the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska.Theresa Strouth Gaul is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas.Linck Johnson is the Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.Michael Soto is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of English at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.

• Volume I: Origins-1820Full Table of ContentsEditorsNotes on Contributors to Volume IGeneral IntroductionSusan BelascoIntroduction to Volume ITheresa Strouth GaulChronology Origins-18201. The Storyteller's Universe: Indigenous Oral LiteraturesKenneth M. Roemer2. Cross-Cultural Encounters in Early American Literatures: From Incommensurability to ExchangeKelly Wisecup3. Settlement Literatures Before and Beyond the Stories of NationsTamara Harvey4. The Puritan Culture of LettersAbram Van Engen5. Writing the Salem Witch TrialsPeter J. Grund6. Captivity:  From Babylon to Indian CountryAndrew Newman 7. Africans in Early AmericaCassander L. Smith8. Migration, Exile, Imperialism: The Non-English Literatures of Early America ReconsideredPatrick M. Erben9. Environment and EnvironmentalismTimothy Sweet10. Acknowledging Early American PoetryChristopher N. Phillips11. Travel Writings in Early America, 1680-1820Susan C. Imbarrato12. Early Native American Literacies to 1820: Systems of Meaning, Categories of Knowledge TransmissionHilary E. Wyss13. The Varieties of Religious Expression in Early American LiteratureSandra M. Gustafson14. Benjamin Franklin: Printer, Editor, and WriterStephen Carl Arch15. Writing Lives: Autobiography in Early AmericaJennifer A. Desiderio16. Captivity Recast: The Captivity Narrative in the Long Eighteenth CenturyJodi Schorb17. Gender, Sex, and Seduction in Early American LiteratureIvy Schweitzer18. Letters in Early American Manuscript and Print CulturesEve Tavor Bannet19. Early American Evangelical Print CultureWendy Raphael Roberts20. The First Black Atlantic: The Archive and Print Culture of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and SlaveryJohn Saillant21. Manuscripts, Manufacts, and Social AuthorshipSusan Stabile22. Cosmopolitan Correspondences: The American Republic of Letters and the Circulation of Enlightenment ThoughtChiara Cillerai23. Revolutionary Print Culture, 1763-1776Philip Gould24. Founding Documents: Writing the American into BeingTrish Loughran25. From the Wharf to the Woods: The Development of U.S. Regional and National Publishing Networks, 1787-1820Phillip H. Round26. Performance, Theatricality, and Early American DramaLaura L. Mielke27. Charles Brockden Brown and the Novel in the 1790sPhilip Barnard, Mark L. Kamrath and Stephen Shapiro28. Medicine, Disability, and Early American LiteratureSari Altschuler29. Remapping the Canonical Interregnum: Periodization, Canonization, & the American Novel, 1800-1820Duncan Faherty30. Commerce, Class, and Cash:  Economics in Early American LiteratureElizabeth Hewitt31. Haiti and the Early American ImaginationMichael J. DrexlerIndex to Volume IVolume II edited by: Linck JohnsonVolume II: 1820-1914EditorsNotes on Contributors to Volume IIGeneral IntroductionSusan BelascoIntroduction to Volume IILinck JohnsonChronology 1820-19141. The Transformation of Literary Production, 1820-1865 Susan Belasco  2. Travel WritingSusan L. Roberson3. The Historical Romance Monika M. Elbert and Leland S. Person4. The Gothic TaleGerald Kennedy 5. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and TranscendentalismPhyllis Cole6. Henry David Thoreau and the Literature of the Environment Rochelle L. Johnson7. Herman Melville and the Antebellum Reading PublicDavid O. Dowling8. Women Writers at MidcenturyNicole Tonkovich9. Popular Poetry and the Rise of Anthologies Amanda Gailey10. Walt Whitman and the New York Literary World   Edward Whitley11. Emily Dickinson and the Tradition of Women PoetsElizabeth A. Petrino12. The Literature of Antebellum Reform Linck Johnson  13. Sex, the Body, and Health ReformDavid Greven14. Proslavery and Antislavery LiteratureSusan M. Ryan15. Gender and the Construction of Antebellum Slave NarrativesPhilathia Bolton and Venetria Patton 16. Antebellum OratoryJohn C. Briggs17. Literature and the Civil WarShirley Samuels18. Disability and LiteratureMary Klages19. The Development of Print Culture, 1865-1914William Hardwig20. Local Color and the Rise of Regionalism  Anne Boyd Rioux21. Poetry, Periodicals, and the Marketplace Nadia Nurhussein22. Realism from William Dean Howells to Edith WhartonAlfred Bendixen23. Mark Twain and the Idea of American IdentityAndrew Levy24. Henry James at Home and AbroadJohn Carlos Rowe25. NaturalismDonna Campbell26. Social Protest FictionAlicia Mischa Renfroe27. The Immigrant ExperienceJames Nagel28. Double Consciousness: African American Writers at the Turn of the CenturyShirley Moody-Turner29. Native American Voices Cari Carpenter30. Latina/o VoicesJesse Alemán31. The Emergence of an American Drama, 1820-1914 Cheryl BlackIndex to Volume IIVolume III: 1914-PresentEditorsNotes on Contributors to Volume IIIGeneral IntroductionSusan BelascoIntroduction to Volume IIIMichael SotoChronology 1914-Present1. Magazines, Little and Large: American Print Culture in the Early Twentieth CenturyJayne E. Marek2. Regional Literary ExpressionsPhilip Joseph3. The Literature of the U.S. South: Modernism and BeyondJohn Wharton Lowe4. American Literature and the AcademyEric Bennett5. The Literature of World War IHazel Hutchison6. The Course of Modern American PoetryCharles Altieri7. Modernism and the American NovelLinda Wagner-Martin8. The Little Theatre MovementDeAnna M. Toten Beard9. The Lost Generation and American ExpatriatismMichael Soto10. The Harlem Renaissance and the New NegroMaureen Honey11. Proletarian LiteratureBarbara Foley12. Realism in American DramaBrenda Murphy13. Nature Writing and the New EnvironmentalismKarla Armbruster14. The Literature and Film of World War IIPhilip Beidler15. The Beat Minds of Their GenerationDavid Sterritt16. The Black Arts Movement and the Racial DivideAmy Abugo Ongiri17. Literary Self-Fashioning in the Pharmacological Age: Confessional PoetryMichael Thurston18. New Frontiers in Postmodern TheaterKerstin Schmidt19. Poetry at the End of the MillenniumJohn Lowney20. The Literature and Film of the Vietnam WarMark A. Heberle21. Gay and Lesbian LiteratureGuy Davidson22. American Literature in Languages Other than EnglishSteven G. Kellman23. Jewish American Literary FormsVictoria Aarons24. Native American Literary FormsThomas C. Gannon25. Asian American Literary FormsUna Chung26. Latina/o Literary FormsMarta Caminero-Santangelo27. African American Fiction After Hiroshima and NagasakiMichael Hill28. Creative NonfictionsBarrie Jean Borich29. The Rise and Nature of the Graphic NovelStephen E. Tabachnick30. The Digital Revolution and the Future of American ReadingNaomi S. BaronIndex to Volume IIIConsolidated Index