A new literary history of America / edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors.
A New Literary History of America contains essays on topics from the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science fiction, and hip hop. Literature, music, film, art, history, science, philosophy, political rhetor...
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2009.
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Table of Contents:
- 1507, the name "America" appears on a map / Toby Lester
- 1521 Mexico in America / Kirsten Silva Gruesz
- 1536, Alvar Nunez 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
- 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, Edward Taylor / Werner Sollors
- 1700, Samuel Sewall's "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, Two national anthems / John Picker
- 1765, Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur / Leo Damrosch
- 1773, Phillis Wheatley / Rafia Zafar
- 1776, The Declaration of Independence / Frank Kelleter
- 1784, Charles Willson Peale / Michael Leja
- 1787, James Madison's "Notes of the debates in the federal convention" / Mitchell Meltzer
- 1787-90, John Adams's "Discourses on Davila" / John Diggins
- 1791, Philip Freneau and "The National Gazette" / Jeffrey L. Pasley
- 1796, Washington's farewell address / Francois Furstenberg
- 1798, Mary Rowlandson and the Alien and Sedition Acts / Nancy Armstrong
- 1798, American Gothic / Marc Amfreville.
- 1801, Jefferson's first inaugural address / Jan Ellis Lewis
- 1804, The matter of Haiti / Kaima 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 / Coppelia Kahn
- 1822, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the Ojibwe firefly, and Longfellow's "Hiawatha" / Davie Treuer
- 1852, 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's "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's "The Yemassee" / Jeffrey Johnson
- "The Sacred harp" / Sean Wilentz
- 1836, The Alamo and Texas border writing / Norma E. Cantu
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr. / Kirsten Silva Gruesz.
- 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The American Schollar" / 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, 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's "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" / Liam Kennedy
- 1854, Maria Cummins and sentimental fiction / Cindy Weinstein
- 1855, Walt Whitman's "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 2nd 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 Hoodway
- 1879, John Muir and nature writing / Scott Slovic
- 1881, Henry James's "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's "A Red Record" / Jacqueline Goldsby
- 1896, Paul Laurence Dunbar's "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, "McTeague" and 1924, "Greed" / Gilberto Perez.
- 1900, Henry Adams / T.J. Jackson Lears
- "The Wizard of Oz" / Gerald Early
- 1900, "Sister Carrie" and 1905, "The House of Mirth" / Farah Jasmine Griffin
- 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
- "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's "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. Mattiessen 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, "The Silent Enemy" / Micah Treuer
- Grant Wood's "American Gothic" / Sarah Vowell
- 1931, Nevada legalizes gambling / David Thomson
- 1932, Edmund Wilson's "The American jitters" / Anthony Grafton
- Arthur Mill / Andrea Most
- 1932, The River Rouge plant and industrial beauby / John M. Staudenmaiser, 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's "Strange Fruit" / Robert O'Meally
- Up from invisibility / Josef Jarab
- 1940, "No way like the American way" / Erika Doss
- 1940-44, 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 2nd 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's "Cybernetics" / David A. Mindell
- Saul Bellow / Ruth Wisse
- 1949-50, "The birth of 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's "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's "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 Candida 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
- 1961, 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's "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's "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
- Linda Lovelace / Anne Marlowe
- 1973, Loisaida literature / Frances R. Aparicio
- Adrienne Rich's "Diving into the Wreck" / Maureen N. McLane
- 1975, Gayl Jones / Robert O'Meally
- 1981, Toni Morrison / Farah Jasmine Griffin
- 1982, Edmund White's "A Boy's Own Story" / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
- "Wild Style" / Mua Hsu
- Maya Lin's wall / Anne M. Wagner
- Harriet Wilson / Saidiya V. Hartman
- 1985, Henry Roth / Mario Materassi
- 1987, Maxine Hong Kingston's "Tripmaster Monkey" / Seio Young Chu
- 1995, Philip Roth / Hana Wirth-Nesher
- 2001, 21st-century free verse / Stephen Burt
- 2003, Richard Powers's "The Time of Our Singing" / Greil Marcus
- 2005, Hurricane Katrina / Greil Marcus & Werner Sollors
- 2008, Barack O'Bama / Kara Walker.