Preface
1 CHALLENGES OF TEACHING AMERICAN LITERATURE
American Literary Studies to the Civil War
CECELIA TICHI
American Literary and Cultural Studies since the Civil War
PHILIP FISHER
The End of "American" Literature: Toward a Multicultural Practice
GREGORY S. JAY
2 CONSIDERING LITERARY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
The Puritan Vision of the New World
SACVAN BERCOVITCH
What American Renaissance? The Gendered Genealogy of a Critical Discourse
CHARLENE AVALLONE
Realism and Naturalism: The Problem of Definition
DONALD PIZER
Towards a Definition of American Modernism
DANIEL JOSEPH SINGAL
Revisioning the Harlem Renaissance
VENETRIA K. PATTON AND MAUREEN HONEY
3 CONSIDERING IDENTITIES
Assumed Identities
DAVID PALUMBO-LIU
Interrogating "Whiteness," (De)Constructing "Race"
ANNLOUISE KEATING
Introduction to American Indian Literatures
A. LAVONNE BROWN RUOFF
Mexican-American Literature
ADA SAVIN
African-American Literature: A Survey
TRUDIER HARRIS
Asian American Literature
ELAINE H. KIM
Treason Our Text: Feminist Challenges to the Literary Canon
LILLIAN S. ROBINSON
Manhood, Class, and the American Renaissance
DAVID LEVERENZ
From Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Gay/Lesbian Studies
MICHAEL RYAN
4 CONSIDERING THE GEOPOLITICAL
Nineteenth-Century United States Literary Culture and Transnationality
JOHN CARLOS ROWE
Manifest Domesticity
AMY KAPLAN
American Literary Emergence as a Postcolonial Phenomenon
LAWRENCE BUELL
5 APPROACHES IN THE CLASSROOM
Liberating Students through Reader-Response Pedagogy in the Introductory Literature Course
LOIS P. TUCKER
Bringing New Historicism into the American Literature Survey
MARGARET FAYE JONES
Early Anglo-American Poetry: Genre, Voice, Art, and Representation
WILLIAM J. SCHEICK
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Slave: Douglass’s Frontispiece Engravings
ED FOLSOM
Additional Readings
About the Volume Editor
About the Contributors