American Literature and the Academy: The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession (Anniversary Collection)

Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Book One: Roots
	1 Prelude: Origins of the CHAL
	2 Organizing the CHAL Team
	3 Preface to Volume I: Trailblazers in the Nationalist Era of Samuel Knapp
	4 Rufus W. Griswold and the Collectors' Marketplace
	5 The Duyckincks among the Young Americans, the Knickerbockers, and Others
	6 Moses Coit Tyler and the Rise of American Literary History
	7 Charles F. Richardson and the Ferment of the Eighties
	8 Barrett Wendell in a Turn-of-the-Century Harvest
	9 The CHAL (Volume I) Appears
	10 And Then Volume II
	11 Interim: Some Insurgent Critics versus "the Professors
	12 The CHAL Completed
Book Two: Growth
	13 A New Era: The Profession Establishes a Political Voice
	14 American Literature in the University: Study and Debate in the 1920s
	15 The Reinterpretation of American Literature (1928) Professional Scholarship after the CHAL
	16 American Literature (1929): The Profession Has aJournal
	17 Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought (1927-1930)
	18 The Heirs of Parrington: Four Leftist Historiesduring the Great Depression
	19 More Advocacy in the Thirties: Humanists,Agrarians, Freudians, and Nationalists
	20 American Literature in the University: Curriculum,Graduate Research, and Controversy in the Thirties
	21 Journals and Other Instruments of the New Scholarship
Book Three: Maturity
	22 The Profession Plans a New Literary History
	23 The Cooperative History Goes Independent: Organization and Theory (1942-1943)
	24 The Editors in Profile (1943)
	25 Screening the Contributors—and Early Contributions (1943-1944)
	26 American Literature and the Academy during WorldWar II (1939-1945)
	27 The LHUS: Shaping the Text (1945-1948)
	28 Reception of the LHUS: Summary Estimate of the Profession
Postwar Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Index