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Apr 5, 2024 · The encyclopedia facilitates access to facts about major literary works, characters, authors, themes, vessels, places, and ideas that are central to American sea literature. Each of the several hundred entries is written by an expert contributor and many provide bibliographical information.
- Fred Muratori
- 2008
Apr 5, 2024 · Arranged in three volumes covering Literary Theory from 1900 to 1966, Literary Theory from 1966 to the present, and Cultural Theory, this encyclopedia provides accessible entries on the important concepts, theorists and trends in post-1900 literary and cultural theory. Encyclopedia of Rhetoric.
- Fred Muratori
- 2008
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The cultural trauma of the Civil War produced a permanently altered sense of national consciousness among Americans who lived through it and beyond it. But the war between the states was only one of manyphenomena of the late nineteenth century that transformed the United States from a country fundamentally sectionalist in attitude (e.g., New Englan...
By 1870 a new generation of American authors, committed to the tenets of literary realism, had begun to emerge. The realist artistic vision, though expressed in a variety of ways by hundreds of writers in the late nineteenth century, was, at least in principle, relatively uncomplicated: portray people, places, and things as they actually appear in ...
Although American authors enjoyed popular success among subscribers to national publications in the decades following the Civil War, American literature, generally speaking, had yet to achieve the status of serious art in the minds of those readers. Americans, still harboring lingering feelings of provincial inferiority a century after the signing ...
During the 1890s a profound and noticeable shift began taking place in American literature. A hallmark feature of post–Civil War American literary realism had been plots that featured characters confronting complex ethical dilemmas. Thus a fundamental assumption that lay behind many realist texts was that the individual possesses the free will to d...
The transition of American literature studies into an age of modern sophistication began just after the end of World War I. In April 1921 the final two volumes of The Cambridge History of American Literature appeared, providing American literary studies with its long-sought sense of critical legitimacy. Later that same year scholars of American lit...
Primary Works
Boynton, Percy. A History of American Literature.Boston: Ginn, 1919. Cairns, W. B. A History of American Literature. New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 1912. Crane, Stephen. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets. 1893. Edited by Thomas Gullason. New York: Norton, 1979. Erskine, John, Stuart P. Sherman, William Peterfield Trent, and Carl Van Doren, eds. The Cambridge History of American Literature.4 vols. New York: Putnam, 1917–1921. Foerster, Norman, ed. American Poetry and Prose.2 vols. Boston and Ne...
Secondary Works
Csicsila, Joseph. Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies.Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. Graff, Gerald. Professing Literature: An Institutional History. Chicago: University of ChicagoPress, 1987. Vanderbilt, Kermit. American Literature and the Academy: The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession. Philadelphia: University of PennsylvaniaPress, 1986. Joseph Csicsila
May 14, 2024 · A large collection of specialized encyclopedias and reference sources. These lengthier encyclopedia articles are usually written by scholars and include bibliographies for further reading.
- Stacy Reardon
- 2014
May 17, 2024 · Together the chapters add up to a systematic critical account of, for example Plato, Luther, Jane Austen, Tom Stoppard or Stravinsky, the French Novel or Jewish American Literature, and each title is supported by reference features such as a chronology and guide to further reading.
- Amanda Watson
- 2009
Feb 18, 2024 · American literature is literature written or produced in the United States or in its preceding colonies. Before the founding of the United States, the British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States were heavily influenced by English literature.
May 16, 2024 · This award-winning Encyclopedia surveys the vibrant terrain of American literature in 350 essays from leading scholars, encompassing the range and depth of American literary history from the 1600s to the present day.
