A Companion to American Cultural History
Edited by: Karen Halttunen (University of Southern California)
Series: Blackwell Companions to American History
Description
A Companion to American Cultural History offers a historiographic overview of the scholarship, with special attention to the major studies and debates that have shaped the field, and an assessment of where it is currently headed.
• 30 essays explore the history of American 'culture' at all analytic levels
• Written by scholarly experts well-versed in the questions and controversies that have activated interest in this burgeoning field
• Part of the authoritative Blackwell Companions to American History series
• Provides both a chronological and thematic approach: topics range from British America in the Eighteenth Century to the modern day globalization of American Culture; thematic approaches include gender and sexuality and popular culture
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Karen Halttunen
Detailed contents
About the Author
Karen Halttunen is Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Southern California, and former president of the American Studies Association. She is the author of Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870 and Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination.
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The Colonial Era
By: PAUL CLEMENS (Rutgers, State University of New Jersey)
Series:Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History
Description
Comprehensive and accessible, this first title in the series “Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History” offers a clear and original framework for studying the important issues in colonial American history.
• Short headnotes introduce each selection
• Begins with a brief introduction by the editor and concludes with a bibliography designed to stimulate student research
• Can be used in conjunction with other books in a course or as a stand-alone text
Paul G. E. Clemens has taught colonial history at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, for more than thirty years. He is the author of The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland’s Eastern Shore (1980), awarded the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Society for the best book on the history of the United States, Canada, or Latin America; and coauthor of Land Use in Early New Jersey (1995).
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A Companion to the History of the Book
Edited by: Simon Eliot (University of London) and JONATHAN ROSE (Drew University)
Series:Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Description
From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Blackwell Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book.
• Makes use of illustrative examples and case studies of well-known texts
• Written by a group of expert contributors
• Covers topical debates, such as the nature of authorship and the future of the book
Simon Eliot is Professor of the History of the Book in the Institute of English Studies, part of the School of Advanced Study in the University of London, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies. He is General Editor of the new multi-volume History of Oxford University Press and editor of the journal Publishing History. His publications include Some Patterns and Trends in British Publishing 1800-1919 and Literary Cultures and the Material Book. He was president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) between 1997-2001.
Jonathan Rose is Professor of History at Drew University. He was the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing and is co-editor of the journal Book History. His publications include The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (2001), The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation (2001), and British Literary Publishing Houses, 1820-1965 (1991).
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ISBN: 9781405127653
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A 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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