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Robert S. Levine is Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, USA. He is the author of Conspiracy and Romance (1989), Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity (1997), and Dislocating Race and Nation (2008); he is also the editor of a number of volumes, including Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader (2003), The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 1820-1865 (2007), and Hemispheric American Studies (with Caroline F. Levander, 2008).
Introduction 1Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine
Part I. Forms 13
1 Poetry, Prose, and the Politics of Literary Form 15Russ Castronovo
2 The Critical Work of American Literature 29Joel Pfister
3 Women’s Worlds in the Nineteenth-Century US Novel 46Shirley Samuels
4 The Secularization Narrative and Nineteenth-Century American Literature 61Elizabeth Fenton
5 Literatures of Technology, Technologies of Literature 77Paul Gilmore
6 Excluded Middles: Social Inequality in American Literature 93Gavin Jones
7 Narrative Medicine, Biocultures, and the Visualization of Health and Disease 108Kirsten Ostherr
8 Performance Anxieties: The A-Literary Companions of American Literary Studies 125Catherine Gunther Kodat
9 Drama, Theatre, and Performance before O’Neill 141Jeffrey H. Richards
10 Disliking It: American Poetry and American Literary Studies 158Mary Loeffelholz
11 After the New Americanists: The Progress of Romance and the Romance of Progress in American Literary Studies 173Jennifer L. Fleissner
12 Mass Media and Literary Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 191Nancy Bentley
Part II. Spaces 209
13 Cabeza de Vaca, Lope de Oviedo, and Americas Exceptionalism 211Anna Brickhouse
14 Worlding America: The Hemispheric Text-Network 228Susan Gillman and Kirsten Silva Gruesz
15 Worlds of Color, Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in Early American Literary History 248Michelle Stephens
16 Transatlantic Returns 264Elisa Tamarkin
17 American Literature in Transnational Perspective: The Case of Mark Twain 279Shelley Fisher Fishkin
18 Southern Literary Studies 294John T. Matthews
19 New Regionalisms: US-Caribbean Literary Relations 310Sean X. Goudie
20 American Literature as Ecosystem: The Examples of Euclides da Cunha and Cormac McCarthy 325George B. Handley
21 Settler States of Feeling: National Belonging and the Erasure of Native American Presence 342Mark Rifkin
22 Tribal Nations and the Other Territories of American Indian Literary History 356James H. Cox
23 Globalization 373Paul Giles
Part III. Practices 387
24 Democratic Cultures and the First Century of US Literature 389Dana D. Nelson
25 American Literature and Law 406Brook Thomas
26 Sexuality and American Literary Studies 422Christopher Looby
27 Exquisite Fragility: Human Being in the Aftermath of War 437Priscilla Wald
28 The Posthuman Turn: Rewriting Species in Recent American Literature 454Ursula K. Heise
29 Narrative and Intellectual Disability 469Michael Bérubé
30 Reading for Asian American Literature 483Colleen Lye
31 Untangling Genealogy’s Tangled Skeins: Alexander Crummell, James McCune Smith, and Nineteenth-Century Black Literary Traditions 500Carla L. Peterson
32 Speculative Realism and the Postrace Aesthetic in Contemporary American Fiction 517Ramón Saldívar
33 The New Life of the New Forms: American Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities 532Matt Cohen
Index 549
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