The Cambridge history of American literature

v. 1. 1590-1820

1. The literature of colonisation / Myra Jehlen

2. New England puritan literature / Emory Elliott

3. British-American belles lettres / David S. Shields

4. The American enlightenment, 1750-1820 / Robert A. Ferguson

5. The literature of the revolutionary and early national periods / Michael T. Gilmore

v. 2. 1820-1865

1. Conditions of Literary Vocation, 1820-1850 / Michael D. Bell

2. The literature of the expansion and race conflict / Eric Sundquist

3. The transcendentalists / Barbara L. Packer

4. Narrative forms / Jonathan Arac

v. 3. Prose writing, 1860-1920

Introduction / Sacvan Bercovitch

Part I. The American Literary Field, 1860-1890 / Richard H. Brodhead

1. Cultures of letters

2. After the American Renaissance

3. Domestic literary culture

4. Books for the millions

5. Onstage

6. Literary high culture

7. Out of the center

8. A case study : literary regionalism

9. Regional writing and the role of the author

Part II. Literary Forms and Mass Culture, 1870-1920 / Nancy Bentley

1. Museum realism

2. Howells, James, and the aesthetic republic

3. Women and realist authorship

4. Chesnutt and imperial spectacle

5. Wharton, travel, and modernity

6. Adams, James, DuBois, and social thought

Part III. Promises of American Life, 1880-1920 / Walter Benn Michaels

1. An American tragedy, or the promise of American life

2. The production of visibility

3. The contracted heart

4. Success

Part IV. Becoming Multicultural : Culture, Economy, and the Novel, 1860-1920 / Susan L. Mizruchi

1. Introduction

2. Remembering civil war

3. Social death and the reconstruction of slavery

4. Cosmopolitan variations

5. Native American sacrifice in an age of progress

6. Marketing culture

7. Varieties of work

8. Corporate America

9. Realist utopias

v. 4. Nineteenth-century poetry, 1800-1910

Introduction / Sacvan Bercovitch and Neal Dolan

Part I. American Verse Traditions, 1800-1855 / Barbara Packer

1. Neoclassicism : comic and satiric verse

2. Early narrative and lyric

3. Transcendentalism

Part II. Poetry and Public Discourse, 1820-1910 / Shira Wolosky

Preface: The claims of rhetoric

1. Modest claims

2. Claiming the Bible

3. Poetic language

4. Plural identities

5. Walt Whitman : the office of the poet

6. Emily Dickinson : the violence of the imagination

Chronology / Neal Dolan

v. 5. Poetry and criticism, 1900-1950

Part I. Modernist Lyric in the Culture of Capital / Andrew Dubois and Frank Lentricchia

1. Anthologies and audience, genteel to modern

2. Robert Frost

3. Wallace Stevens

4. T.S. Eliot

5. Ezra Pound

Epilogue

Part II. Poetry in the Machine Age / Irene Ramalho Santos

1. Gertrude Stein : the poet as master of repetition

2. William Carlos Williams : in search of a western dialect

3. H.D. : a poet between worlds

4. Marianne Moore : a voracity of contemplation

5. Hart Crane : tortured with history

6. Langston Hughes : the color of modernism

Part III. Literary Criticism / William Cain

Preface

1. Inventing American literature

2. Intellectuals, cultural critics, men and women of letters

3. Southerners, agrarians, and New Critics : the institutions of a modern criticism

v. 6. Prose writing, 1910-1950

Introduction / Sacvan Bercovitch and Jonathan Fortescue

I.A cultural history of the modern American novel / David Minter

Prologue Part I.A Dream City, Lyric Years, and a Great War

1. The novel as ironic reflection

2. Confidence and uncertainty in The Portrait of a Lady

3. Lines of expansion

4. Four contemporaries and closing of the west

5. Chicago's 'Dream City'

6. Frederick Jackson Turner in the dream city

7. Henry Adams's Education and the grammar of progress

8. Jack London's career and popular discourse

9. Innocence in the 'Lyric Years ': 1900-1916

10. The Armory Show of 1913 and the decline of innocence

11. The play of hope and despair

Part II. Fiction in a Time of Plenty

12. When the war was over : the return of detachment

13. The 'Jazz Age' and the 'Lost Generation' revisited

14. The perils of plenty, or how the Twenties acquired a paranoid tilt

15. Disenchantment, flight, and the rise of professionalism in an age of plenty

16. Class, power, and violence in a new age

17. The fear of feminization and the logic of modest ambitions

18. Marginality and authority/race, gender and region

19. War as metaphor : the example of Ernest Hemingway

Part III. The Fate of Writing During the Great Depression

20. The discovery of poverty and the return of commitment

21. The search for 'culture' as a form of commitment

22. Three responses : the examples of Henry Miller, Djuna Barnes, and John Dos Passos

23. Cowboys, detectives and other tough-guy antinomians : residual individualism and hedged commitments

24. The search for shared purpose : struggles on the left

25. Documentary literature and the disarming of dissent

26. The southern renaissance : forms of reaction and innovation

27. History and novels/novels and history : the example of William Faulkner

II. Fictions of the Harlem Renaissance / Rafia Zafar

1. A new Negro?

2. Black Manhattan

3. Avatars and Manifestos

4. At home and homeless in Harlem

5. New Negro, New Woman

6. Thurman and Nugent

7. Minor writers

8. Hurston and Wright

9. Black Modernism

III. Ethnic Modernism / Werner Sollors

Introduction

1. Gertrude Stein and 'Negro Sunshine'

2. Ethnic lives and 'lifelets'

3. Ethnic themes, modern themes

4. Mary Antin : progressive optimism against odds

5. Who is 'American'?

6. American languages

7. 'All the past we leave behind'? : Ole E. Rølvaag and the immigrant trilogy

8. Modernism, ethnic labeling and the quest for wholeness : Jean Toomer's new American race

9. Freud, Marx, hard-boiled 10. Hemingway spoken here

11. Henry Roth : ethnicity, modernity, and modernism

12. The clock, the salesman and the beast

13. Was modernism anti-totalitarian

14. Facing the extreme

15. Grand central terminal

v. 7. Prose writing, 1940-1990

1. The drama from 1940-1990 / Christopher Bigsby

2. Fiction and society / Morris Dickstein

3. After the Southern Renaissance / John Burt

4. Postmodern fictions, 1970-1990 / Wendy Steiner

5. Emergent literatures / Cyrus R.K. Patell

v. 8. Poetry and criticism, 1940-1995. Part I. Poetry, Politics, and Intellectuals / Robert Von Hallberg

1. The place of poetry in the Culture, 1945-1950

2. Politics

3. Rear-guards

4. Avant-gardes

5. Authenticity

6. Translation Conclusion : the place of poets, 1995

Appendix I: Biographies of Poets

Part II. Criticism Since 1940 / Evan Carton and Gerald Graff

Introduction

1. Politics and American criticism

2. The emergence of academic criticism

3. The nationalising of the new criticism

4. The canon, the academy, and gender

5. Deconstruction and post-structuralism

6. From textuality to materiality

7. Cultural and historical studies

Conclusion : academic criticism and its discontents

Appendix II: Biographies of critics

Chronology 1940-1945

Bibliography