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Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America
Edited By:
IVY SCHWEITZER, Dartmouth College
SUSAN CASTILLO, Glasgow University
This broad introduction to Colonial American literatures
brings out the comparative and transatlantic nature of the writing of this period
and highlights the interactions between native, non-scribal groups, and Europeans
that helped to shape early American writing.
*Situates the writing of this period in its various historical and cultural contexts,
including colonialism, imperialism, diaspora, and nation formation.
*Highlights interactions between native, non-scribal groups and Europeans during
the early centuries of exploration.
*Covers a wide range of approaches to defining and reading early American writing.
*Looks at the development of regional spheres of influence in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries.
*Serves as a vital adjunct to Castillo and Schweitzer's 'The Literatures of Colonial
America: An Anthology' (Blackwell Publishing, 2001).
List of illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Susan Castillo (Glasgow University) and Ivy Schweitzer (Dartmouth
College)
Part I: Issues and Methods
1. Prologomenal Thinking: Some Possibilities and Limits of Comparative Desire:
Teresa Toulouse (Tulane University)
2. First Peoples: An Introduction to Early Native American Studies: Joanna Brooks
(University of Texas)
3. Toward a Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: empire, location,
creolization: Ralph Bauer (University of Maryland)
4. Textual Investments: Economics and Colonial American Literatures: Michelle
Burnham (Santa Clara University)
5. The Culture of Colonial America: Theology and Aesthetics: Paul Giles (Oxford
University)
6. Teaching the Text of Early American Literature: Michael P. Clarke (University
of California, Irvine)
7. Teaching with the New Technology: Three Intriguing Opportunities: Edward J.
Gallagher (Lehigh University)
Part II: New World Encounters
8. Recovering Pre-Colonial American Literary History: 'The Origin of Stories'
and the Popol Vuh: Timothy Powell (Univ. of Georgia)
9. Toltec Mirrors: Native Americans and Europeans in Each Other's Eyes: Renée
Bergland (Simmons College)
10. Reading for Indian Resistance: Bethany Schneider (Bryn Mawr College)
11. Refocusing New Spain and Spanish Colonization: Malinche, Guadalupe and Sor
Juana: Electa Arenal (City University of New York) and Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel
(University of Pennsylvania)
12. British Colonial Expansion Westwards: Ireland and America: Andrew Hadfield
(University of Sussex)
13. The French Relation and France's 'Hidden' Colonial History: Sara Melzer (UCLA)
14. Visions of the Other in 16th and 17th writing on Brazil: Elena Losada Soler
(University of Barcelona)
15. New World Ethnography, the Caribbean, and Behn's Oroonoko: Derek Hughes (University
of Warwick)
Part III: Negotiating Identities
16. Gendered Voices from Lima and Mexico: Clarinda, Amarilis and Sor Juana: Raquel
Chang-Rodriguez (City University of New York)
17. Cleansing Mexican Antiquity: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the loa
to The Divine Narcissus: Viviana Diaz Balsera (University of Miami)
18. Hemispheric Americanism: Latin American Exiles and US Revolutionary Writings:
Rodrigo Lazo (University of California, Irvine)
19. Putting Together the Pieces: Notes on the Eighteenth-Century Literary Imagination:
Douglas Anderson (University of Georgia)
20. The Transoceanic Emergence of American 'Postcolonial' Identities: Gesa Mackenthun
(Universitaet Rostock, Germany)
Part IV: Genres and Writers: Cross-Cultural Conversations
21. The Genre of Exploration and Conquest Narratives: Tom Shields (East Carolina
University)
22. The Conversion Narrative in Early America: Lisa Gordis (Barnard College)
23. Indigenous Literacies: New England and New Spain: Hilary Wyss (Auburn University)
24. Anglo-American Religious Culture: Sermons, Preaching, and the Forensic and
Literary Traditions of Protestantism, 1530-1830: Greg Jackson (University of Arizona)
25. Neither Here nor There: Epistolarity in Early America: Phil Round (University
of Iowa)
26. True Relations and Critical Fictions: The Case of Personal Narratives in Colonial
American Writing: Kathleen Donegan (Huntingdon Library)
27. “Cross-Cultural Conversations”: The Captivity Narrative: Lisa Logan
(University of Central Florida)
28. Epic, Creoles, and Nation in Spanish America: Jose Mazzotti (Harvard University)
29. Plainness and Paradox: Colonial tensions in the early New England Religious
Lyric: Amy Morris (Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge)
30. Captivating Animals: Science and Spectacle in Early American Natural Histories:
Kathryn Napier Gray (University of Plymouth)
31. Challenging Convention Historiography: The Roaming 'I' in Early Colonial-American
Eyewitness Accounts: Jerry M. Williams (West Chester University)
32. Republican Theatricality and Transatlantic Empire: Elizabeth Dillon (Yale
University)
33. Reading Early American Fiction: Winfried Fluck (Freie Universität Berlin)
Index
About the Authors
Susan Castillo is John Nichol Professor of American Literature at Glasgow University.
Her books include Notes from the Periphery: Marginality in North American Literature
and Culture (1995), Engendering Identities (1996) and Native American Women in
Literature and Culture (1997, with Victor Da Rosa).
Ivy Schweitzer is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College, Hanover,
New Hampshire, and teaches in the Women's Studies, Comparative Literature and
Jewish Studies Programs. She is the author of The Work of Self-Representation:
Lyric Poetry in Colonial New England (1991).
Together, they are also the editors of The Literatures of Colonial America: An
Anthology (Blackwell Publishing, 2001).
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Companion to American Women's History (now in paperback)
Edited By: NANCY HEWITT, Rutgers University
This collection of twenty-four original essays by leading
scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship
on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field.
Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including the colonial family,
marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, work, consumer culture, and
feminism.
Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic.
Includes expanded bibliography of titles to guide further research.
Contents
About the Contributors.
Introduction.
Part I: The Colonial Era, 1600-1760.
Part II: The Creation of a New Nation, 1760-1880.
Part III: Modern America, 1880-1990.
Bibliography: Selected Secondary Sources: Compiled by April de Stefano.
About the Authors
Nancy A. Hewitt is Professor of History and Women's Studies at Rutgers University.
She is the author of Women's Activism and Social Change (1984) and Southern Discomfort:
Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s (2001), Women's Activism and Social
Change (2001), the editor of Women, Families, and Communities (1990), and co-editor
of Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism (1993), and Talking Gender:
Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques (1996).
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Series: Blackwell Companions to American History
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History of American Literature
By: Richard Gray, University of Essex
This major new history of American literature from pre-Columbian times to the
present is written in an informed but accessible style by one of the leading authorities
in the field.
* A major new one-volume history of American literature from pre-Columbian times
to the present.
* Extremely broad-ranging, taking in Native American, Anglo American, African
American, Asian American and Hispanic American literature.
* Covers oral literature, folktales, spirituals, the blues, the western, the detective
story, the thriller and science fiction, as well as canonical literature.
* Relates the history of American literature to American social and cultural history.
* Takes account of changes in critical and theoretical debates about literature
in the last 30 years.
* Written by a leading international authority on American literature.
Contents
1. The First Americans: American Literature Before And During The Colonial And
Revolutionary Periods.
2. Inventing Americas: The Making Of American Literature 1800-1865.
3. Reconstructing The Past, Reimagining The Future: The Development Of American
Literature 1865-1900.
4. Making It New: The Emergence Of Modern American Literature 1900-1945.
5. Negotiating The American Century: American Literature Since 1945.
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About the Authors
Richard Gray is Professor of American Literature at the University of Essex. Generally
regarded as the leading European scholar in American literature, he is the first
specialist in American literature to be elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
His recent publications include Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region
(1997), The Life of William Faulkner: A Critical Biography (Blackwell Publishing,
1994) and Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems
of Regionalism (2000). With Owen Robinson, he has also edited A Companion to the
Literature and Culture of the American South (Blackwell Publishing, 2004).
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