A Companion to American Literary Studies (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

Notes on Contributors x    Introduction 1  Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine     Part I. Forms 13     1 Poetry, Prose, and the Politics of Literary Form 15  Russ Castronovo     2 The Critical Work of American Literature 29  Joel Pfister     3 Women   s Worlds in the Nineteenth-Century US Novel 46  Shirley Samuels     4 The Secularization Narrative and Nineteenth-Century American Literature 61  Elizabeth Fenton     5 Literatures of Technology, Technologies of Literature 77  Paul Gilmore     6 Excluded Middles: Social Inequality in American Literature 93  Gavin Jones     7 Narrative Medicine, Biocultures, and the Visualization of Health and Disease 108  Kirsten Ostherr     8 Performance Anxieties: The A-Literary Companions of American Literary Studies 125  Catherine Gunther Kodat     9 Drama, Theatre, and Performance before O   Neill 141  Jeffrey H. Richards     10 Disliking It: American Poetry and American Literary Studies 158  Mary Loeffelholz     11 After the New Americanists: The Progress of Romance and the Romance of Progress in American Literary Studies 173  Jennifer L. Fleissner     12 Mass Media and Literary Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 191  Nancy Bentley     Part II. Spaces 209     13 Cabeza de Vaca, Lope de Oviedo, and Americas Exceptionalism 211  Anna Brickhouse     14 Worlding America: The Hemispheric Text-Network 228  Susan Gillman and Kirsten Silva Gruesz     15 Worlds of Color, Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in Early American Literary History 248  Michelle Stephens     16 Transatlantic Returns 264  Elisa Tamarkin     17 American Literature in Transnational Perspective: The Case of Mark Twain 279  Shelley Fisher Fishkin     18 Southern Literary Studies 294  John T. Matthews     19 New Regionalisms: US-Caribbean Literary Relations 310  Sean X. Goudie     20 American Literature as Ecosystem: The Examples of Euclides da Cunha and Cormac McCarthy 325  George B. Handley     21 Settler States of Feeling: National Belonging and the Erasure of Native American Presence 342  Mark Rifkin     22 Tribal Nations and the Other Territories of American Indian Literary History 356  James H. Cox     23 Globalization 373  Paul Giles     Part III. Practices 387     24 Democratic Cultures and the First Century of US Literature 389  Dana D. Nelson     25 American Literature and Law 406  Brook Thomas     26 Sexuality and American Literary Studies 422  Christopher Looby     27 Exquisite Fragility: Human Being in the Aftermath of War 437  Priscilla Wald     28 The Posthuman Turn: Rewriting Species in Recent American Literature 454  Ursula K. Heise     29 Narrative and Intellectual Disability 469  Michael Berube     30 Reading for Asian American Literature 483  Colleen Lye     31 Untangling Genealogy   s Tangled Skeins: Alexander Crummell, James McCune Smith, and Nineteenth-Century Black Literary Traditions 500  Carla L. Peterson     32 Speculative Realism and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary American Fiction 517  Ramon Saldivar     33 The New Life of the New Forms: American Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities 532  Matt Cohen     Index 549