American Literary History

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Elliott, Emory. Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

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Gray, Richard. Writing the South: Ideas of American Region. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Greenblatt, Stephen. Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Gunn, Giles, ed. Early American Writing. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994.

Hoffman, Ronald, and Peter J. Albert, eds. Women in the Age of the American Revolution. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1989.

Jehlen, Myra, and Michael Warner, eds. The English Literatures of America: 1500–1800. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Jones, Howard Mumford. O Strange New World: American Culture: The Formative Years. New York: Viking, 1964.

Kelleter, Frank. “1776: John Adams Disclaims Authorship of Common Sense But Helps Declare Independence.” A New Literary History of America. Eds. Marcus Greil and Werner Sollors. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. 98–103.

Kelleter, Frank. Amerikanische Aufklärung: Sprachen der Rationalität im Zeitalter der Revolution. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2002.

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Meltzer, Mitchell. “1787: A Literature of Secular Revelations.” A New Literary History of America. Eds. Marcus Greil and Werner Sollors. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. 108–12.

Meserole, Harrison T. American Poetry of the 17th Century. New York: University Press, 1993.

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Bercovitch, Sacvan. The American Jeremiad. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978.

Davidson, Cathy N. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Elliott, Emory. Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Fluck, Winfried. Das kulturelle Imaginäre: Eine Funktionsgeschichte des amerikanischen Romans 1790–1900. Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp, 1997.

Gray, Richard. Writing the South: Ideas of American Region. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Greenblatt, Stephen. Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Gunn, Giles, ed. Early American Writing. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994.

Hoffman, Ronald, and Peter J. Albert, eds. Women in the Age of the American Revolution. Charlottesville: Uni versity of Virginia Press, 1989.

Jehlen, Myra, and Michael Warner, eds. The English Literatures of America: 1500–1800. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Jones, Howard Mumford. O Strange New World: American Culture: The Formative Years. New York: Viking, 1964.

Kelleter, Frank. “1776: John Adams Disclaims Authorship of Common Sense But Helps Declare Independence.” A New Literary History of America. Eds. Marcus Greil and Werner Sollors. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. 98–103.

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McDougall, Walter A. Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585–1828. New York: Harper Collins, 2004.

Meltzer, Mitchell. “1787: A Literature of Secular Revelations.” A New Literary History of America. Eds. Marcus Greil and Werner Sollors. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. 108–12.

Meserole, Harrison T. American Poetry of the 17th Century. New York: University Press, 1993.

Spengemann, William C. A New World of Words: Redefining Early American Literature. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

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Baym, Nina. Woman’s Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America: 1820–1870. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978.

Benesch, Klaus. “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For? Thoreau’s Platial Iconicity.” American Cultural Icons: The Production of Representative Lives. Eds. Bernd Engler and Günter Leypoldt. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2010. 107–21.

Benesch, Klaus. Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.

Bigelow, Jacob. Elements of Technology. Boston: Boston Press, 1829.

Boorstin, Daniel. The Genius of American Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953.

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Buell, Lawrence. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Davidson, Cathy. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

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Fetterley, Judith, ed. Provisions: A Reader from 19th-Century American Women. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.

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Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things. New York: Vintage, 1973.

Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

Gilmore, Michael T. American Romanticism and the Marketplace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

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Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

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Pease, Donald E. Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.

Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. New York: Viking, 2000.

Poirier, Richard. A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Pratt, Lloyd. Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.

Scott, Donald. “Print and the Public Lecture System.” Printing and Society in Early America. Eds. William Joyce, David D. Hall, Richard D. Brown, and John B. Hench. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1983.

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Williams, Susan S. Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women in America: 1850–1900. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

Zapf, Hubert. “Literary Ecology and the Ethics of Texts.” New Literary History 39.4 (2008): 847–68.

Barthes, Roland. “The Reality Effect.” 1968. The Rustle of Language. Trans. Richard Howard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. 141–48.

Beaumont, Matthew, ed. A Concise Companion to Realism. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Bell, Michael Davitt. The Problem of American Realism: Studies in the Cultural History of a Literary Idea. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Crane, Stephen. Letters. Ed. R. W. Stallman et al. New York: New York University Press, 1960.

Fluck, Winfried. “Declarations of Dependence: Revising Our View of American Realism.” Victorianism in the United States: Its Era and Its Legacy. Eds. Steve Ickingrill et al. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1992. 19–34.

Fluck, Winfried. Inszenierte Wirklichkeit: Der amerikanische Realismus: 1865–1900. Munich: Fink, 1992.

Glazener, Nancy. Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850–1910. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.

Hamon, Philippe. “Philippe Hamon on the Major Features of Realist Discourse.” Trans. Lilian R. Furst and Seán Hand. Realism. Ed. Lilian R. Furst. New York: Longman, 1992. 166–85.

Howard, June. Form and History in American Literary Naturalism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

Howells, William Dean. Selected Literary Criticism. Ed. Donald Pizer. Vol. 2. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

Kaplan, Amy. The Social Construction of American Realism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Kearns, Catherine. Nineteenth Century Literary Realism: Through the Looking-glass. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Lamb, Robert Paul, et al., eds. A Companion to American Fiction, 1865–1914. Malden: Blackwell, 2005.

Lewis, Sinclair. “The American Fear of Literature.” Nobel Lecture. 12 Dec. 1930. Nobelprize.org. 13 Oct 2010 ‹http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/lau reates/1930/lewis-lectu re.html›.

Martin, Jay. Harvests of Change: American Literature, 1865–1914. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1967.

Newlin, Keith, ed. The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Norris, Frank. “Zola as a Romantic Writer.” The Literary Criticism of Frank Norris. Ed. Donald Pizer. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964. 71–72.

Papke, Mary E., ed. Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003.

Pizer, Donald, ed. The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: Howells to London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Pizer, Donald. The Theory and Practice of American Literary Naturalism: Selected Essays and Reviews. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.

Smith, Christopher, ed. American Realism. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2000.

Thompson, Maurice. “The Analysts Analyzed.” The Critic: A Weekly Review of Literature and the Arts ns 6 (1886): 19–22.

Trachtenberg, Alan. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982.

Hutchinson, Charles. The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

Hutchinson, George. “Jean Toomer and American Racial Discourse.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 35.2 (1993): 226–50.

Jameson, Fredric. The Modernist Papers. London: Verso, 2007.

Kenner, Hugh. A Homemade World. New York: William Morrow, 1975.

Kenner, Hugh. The Pound Era. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

Klein, Marcus. Foreigners: The Making of American Literature: 1900–1940. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

Klepper, Martin, and Joseph Schöpp, eds. Transatlantic Modernism. Heidelberg: Winter, 2001.

Lemke, Sieglinde. Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Levin, Harry. Memories of the Moderns. London: Faber & Faber, 1980.

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McAlmon, Robert, and Kay Boyle. Being Geniuses Together: 1920–1930. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984.

Miller, J. Hillis. The Linguistic Moment. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Nicholls, Peter. Modernisms: A Literary Guide. London: Macmillan, 1995.

Nochlin, Linda. “Return to Order.” Art in America (1981): 74–83.

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Perloff, Marjorie. The Dance of the Intellect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Baker, Houston. Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Berman, Marshall. All That is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982.

Bradbury, Malcolm. “American Literature and the Coming of World War II.” Looking Inward–Looking Outward. Ed. Steve Ickringill. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1990. 8–21.

Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern American Novel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Bradbury, Malcolm, and James McFarlane, eds. Modernism. Hardmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1976.

Capetti, Carla. Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

DeKoven, Marianne. A Different Language: Gertrude Stein’s Experiental Writing. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1893.

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Kenner, Hugh. The Pound Era. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971.

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Klepper, Martin, and Joseph Schöpp, eds. Transatlantic Modernism. Heidelberg: Winter, 2001.

Lemke, Sieglinde. Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Lentricchia, Frank. Modernist Quartet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Levin, Harry. Memories of the Moderns. London: Faber & Faber, 1980.

Locke, Alain, ed. The New Negro: Voices of the Harlem Renaissance. 1925. New York: Atheneum, 1975.

McAlmon, Robert, and Kay Boyle. Being Geniuses Together: 1920–1930. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984.

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Perloff, Marjorie. The Dance of the Intellect. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

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