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A new literary history of America
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
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Danvers - Adult Nonfiction (3rd Floor)
PS 92 N39 2009
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PS 92 N39 2009
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From the Book
1507, the name "America" appears on a map / Toby Lester
1521, Mexico in America / Kirsten Silva Gruesz
1536, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca / Ilan Stavans
1585, "Counterfeited according to the truth" /
Michael Gaudio
1607, Fear and love in the Virginia colony / Adam Goodheart
1630, A city upon a hill / Elizabeth Winthrop
1643, A nearer neighbor to the Indians / Ted Widmer
1666, Anne Bradstreet / Wai Chee Dimock
1670, The American jeremiad / Emory Elliott ; The stamp of God's image / Jason D. LaFountain
1673, The Jesuit relations / Laurent Dubois
1683, Francis Daniel Pastorius / Alfred L. Brophy
1692, The Salem witchcraft trials / Susan Castillo
1693-1694, Edward Taylor / Werner Sollors
1700, Samuel Sewall, The selling of Joseph / David Blight
1722, Benjamin Franklin, The Silence Dogood letters / Joyce E. Chaplin
1740, The Great Awakening / Joanne Van Der Woude
Late
1740s 1814, Two national anthems / John Picker
1765, Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur / Leo Damrosch
1773, Phillis Wheatley / Rafia Zafar
1776, The Declaration of Independence / Frank Kelleter
1784, Charles Willson Peale / Michael Leja
1787, James Madison, Notes of the Debates in the Federal Convention / Mitchell Meltzer
1787-1790, John Adams, Discourses on Davila / John Diggins
1791, Philip Freneau and The National Gazette / Jeffrey L. Pasley
1796, Washington's farewell address / François Furstenberg
1798, Mary Rowlandson and the Alien and Sedition Acts / Nancy Armstrong
1798, American Gothic / Marc Amfreville
1804, The matter of Haiti / Kaiama Glover
1809, Cupola of the world / Judith Richardson
1819, The Missouri crisis / John Stauffer
1820, Landscape with birds / Christoph Irmscher
1821, Sequoyah, the Cherokee syllabary / Lisa Brooks ; Junius Brutus Booth / Coppélia Kahn
1822, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the Ojibwe firefly, and Longfellow's "Hiawatha" / Davie Treuer
1825, Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School / Alan Wallach
1826, Songs of the republic / Steve Erickson ; Cooper's Leatherstocking tales / Richard Hutson
1826; 1927 Transnational poetry / Stephen Burt
1827, Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon / Terryl L. Givens
1828, David Walker, Appeal, in Four Articles" / Tommie Shelby
1830, Jump Jim Crow / W.T. Lhamon, Jr.
1831, The Cherokee Nation decision / Philip Deloria
1832, President Jackson's bank veto / Dan Feller
1835, Democracy in America / Ted Widmer ; William Gilmore Simms, The Yemassee / Jeffrey Johnson ; The Sacred harp / Sean Wilentz
1836, The Alamo and Texas border writing / Norma E. Cantú ; Richard Henry Dana, Jr. / Kirsten Silva Gruesz
1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar / James Conant
1838, "The Divinity School Address" / Herwig Friedl ; The slave narrative / Caille Millner
1841, "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / Robert Clark
1846, James Russell Lowell's "Biglow papers" / Shelley Streeby ; Henry David Thoreau / Jonathan Arac
1850, The Scarlet letter / Bharati Mukherjee ; Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalist Movement / Lawrence Buell; Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville / Clark Blaise
1851, Moby-Dick / Greil Marcus ; Uncle Tom's Cabin / Beverly Lowry
1852, Hawthorne's "Blithedale romance" and utopian communities / Winifried Fluck ; Frederick Douglass, "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" / Liam Kennedy
1854, Maria Cummins and sentimental fiction / Cindy Weinstein
1855, Walt Whitman, Leaves of grass / Angus Fletcher
1858, The Lincoln-Douglas debates / Michael T. Gilmore
1859, The science of the Indian / Scott Richard Lyons
1861, Emily Dickinson / Susan Stewart
1862, The journeys of Little women / Shirley Samuels
1865, Lincoln's second inaugural address / Ted Widmer ; "Conditions of repose" / Robin Kelsey
1869, Carl Schurz / Michael Boyden
1872, All men and women are created equal / Laura Wexler
1875, The Winchester rifle / Merritt Roe Smith
1876, Melville in the dark / Kenneth W. Warren ; The art of telephony / Avital Ronell
1878, "How to make our ideas clear" / Christopher Hookway
1879, John Muir and nature writing / Scott Slovic
1881, Henry James, Portait of a lady / Alide Cagidemetrio
1884, Mark Twain's hairball / Ishmael Reed ; The linotype machine / Lisa Gitelman ; The Southwest imagined / Leah Dilworth
1885, The problem of error / James Conant ; Limits to violence / James Dawes ; Writing New Orleans / Andrei Codrescu
1888, The introduction of motion pictures / Jonathan Lethem
1889, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Yael Schacher
1893, Chief Simon Pokagon and Native American literatuer / David Treuer
1895 / Ida B. Wells, A red record / Jacqueline Goldsby
1896, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Lyrics of lowly life / Judith Jackson Fossett ; Queen Lili'uokalani / Rob Wilson
1897, The Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Monument / Richard Powers
1898, Literature and imperialism / Amy Kaplan
1899; 1924, McTeague and Greed / Gilberto Perez
1900, Henry Adams / T.J. Jackson Lears ; The Wizard of Oz / Gerald Early ; 1900; 1905, Sister Carrie and The house of mirth / Farah Jasmine Griffin
1901, Charles W. Chesnutt, The marrow of tradition / John Edgar Wideman
1901; 1903, The problem of the color line / Arnold Rampersad
1903, "The real American has not yet arrived" / Aviva Taubenfeld ; The invention of the blues / Luc Sante ; One sees what one sees / Daniel Albright
1904, Henry James in America / Ross Posnock
1905, Little Nemo in Slumberland / Kerry Roeder ; 1906, The Azusa Street revival / RJ Smith ; The San Francisco Earthquake / Kathleen Moran
1911, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" / Philip Furia
1912, Lifeboats cut adrift / Alan Ackerman ; The lure of impossible things / Heather Love ; Tarzan begins his reign / Gerald Early
1913, A modernist moment / Bonnie Costello
1915, D.W. Griffith, The birth of a nation / Richard Schickel ; Robert Frost / Christian Wiman
1917, The philosopher and the millionaire / Richard J. Bernstein
1920, Mamie Smith's "Crazy Blues" / Daphne A. Brooks
1921, Jean Toomer / Elizabeth Alexander
1922, T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence / Anita Patterson
1923, Chaplinesque / David Thomson
1942, F.O. Matthiessen meets Russell Cheney / Robert Polito ; The Johnson-Reed Act and ethnic literature / Yael Schacher
1925, The great Gatsby / Lan Tran ; Sinclair Lewis / Jeffrey Ferguson ; The Scopes trial / Michael Kazin ; Dorothy Parker / Catherine Keyser
1926, Fire! / Carla Kaplan ; Hardboiled / Walter Mosley ; The Book-of-the-Month Club / Joan Shelly Rubin
1927, Carl Sandburg and The American songbag / Paul Muldoon ; "Free to develop their faculties" / Jeffrey Rosen
1928, Dilsey Gibson goes to church / Werner Sollors ; John Dos Passos / Phoebe Kosman ; The mouse that whistled / Karal Ann Marling
1930, "You're swell!" / Robert Gottlieb ; The silent enemy / Micah Treuer ; Grant Wood's American gothic / Sarah Vowell
1931, Nevada legalizes gambling / David Thomson
1932, Edmund Wilson, The American jitters / Anthony Grafton ; Arthur Miller / Andrea Most
1932, The River Rouge plant and industrial beauty / John M. Staudenmaier, S.J. ; Ned Cobb / Robert Cantwell
1933, Baby Face is censored / Stephanie Zacharek ; FDR's first Fireside Chat / Paula Rabinowitz
1934, Robert Penn Warren / Howell Raines
1935, The Popular Front / Angela Miller ; The skyscraper / Sarah Whiting ; Alcoholics Anonymous / Michael Tolkin ; Porgy and Bess / John Rockwell
1936, Gone with the wind and Absalom, Absalom! / Carolyn Porter ; Two days in Harlem / Adam Bradley ; Life begins / Michael Lesy
1938, Superman / Douglas Wolk ; Jelly Roll Morton speaks / Marybeth Hamilton
1939, Billie Holiday, "Strange Fruit" / Robert O'Meally
1939; 1981, Up from invisibility / Josef Jařab
1940, "No way like the American way" / Erika Doss
1940-1944, Preston Sturges / Douglas McGrath
1941, An insolent style / Carrie Tirado Bramen ; Citizen Kane / Joseph McBride ; The word "multicultural" / Werner Sollors
1943, Hemmingway's paradise, Hemingway's prose / Keith Taylor
1944, The second Bill of Rights / Cass R. Sunstein
1945, Bebop / Ingrid Monson ; Thomas Pynchon and modern war / Glenda Carpio ; The atom bomb / Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi
1946, Integrating the military / Gerald Early
1947, Tennessee Williams / Camille Paglia
1948, Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics / David A. Mindell ; Saul Bellow / Ruth Wisse
1949-1950, "The birth of the cool" / Ted Gioia
1950, "Damned busy painting" / T.J. Clark
1951, A poet among painters / Mark Ford ; The catcher in the rye / Gish Jen ; James Jones, From here to eternity / Lindsay Waters ; A soft voice / M. Lynn Weiss
1952, Elia Kazan and the blacklist in Hollywood / Michael Ventura ; C.L.R. James / Donald E. Pease
1953, The song in country music / Dave Hickey
1954, Wallace Stevens, Collected poems / Helen Vendler
1955, "The self-respect of my people" / Monica L. Miller ; A.J. Liebling and the Marciano-Moore fight / Carlo Rotella ; A generation in miniature / Richard Cándida Smith ; Nabokov's Lolita / Stephen Schiff
1956, "Roll Over Beethoven" / James Miller
1957, Dr. Seuss / Philip Nel
1959, "Nobody's perfect" / William J. Mann
1960, "Psycho" / William Beard ; More than a game / Michael MacCambridge
196 1, JFK's inaugural address and Catch-22 / Charles Taylor ; The author as advertisement / David Thomson
1962, Bob Dylan writes "Song to Woody" / Joshua Clover ; "White elephant art vs. termite art" / Howard Hampton
1963, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" / George Hutchinson
1964, Robert Lowell, "For the Union Dead" / Peter Sacks ; "The last stand on earth" / Gary Kamiya
1965, The Council on Interracial Books for Children / Dianne Johnson ; The autobiography of Malcolm X / David Bradley
1968, Norman Mailer / Mary Gaitskill ; The illusory babels of language / Hal Foster ; The plight of conservative literature / Michael Kimmage
1969, Eilzabeth Bishop, Complete poems / Laura Quinney ; The first Asian Americans / Hua Hsu ; The eye of Vietnam / Thi Phuong-Lan Bui
1970, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker / Cheryl A. Wall
1970; 1972, Linda Lovelace / Ann Marlowe
1973, Loisaida literature / Frances R. Aparicio ; Adrienne Rich, Diving into the wreck / Maureen N. McLane
1975, Gayl Jones / Robert O'Meally
1981, Toni Morrison / Farah Jasmine Griffin
1982, Edmund White, A boy's own story / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum ; Wild style / Hua Hsu ; Maya Lin's wall / Anne M. Wagner ; Harriet Wilson / Saidiya V. Hartman
1985, Henry Roth / Mario Materassi
1987, Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster monkey / Seo-Young Chu
1995, Philip Roth / Hana Wirth-Nesher
2001, Twenty-first-century free verse / Stephen Burt
2003, Richard Powers, The time of our singing / Greil Marcus
2005, Hurricane Katrina / Greil Marcus & Werner Sollors
2008, Barack Obama / Kara Walker.
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9781782683575
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