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A New Literary History of America
by Greil Marcus, Werner Sollors
Greil Marcus
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Overview
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along—a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history.
In more than two hundred original essays, A New Literary History of America brings together the nation’s many voices. 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, the book gives us a new, kaleidoscopic view of what “Made in America” means. Literature, music, film, art, history, science, philosophy, political rhetoric—cultural creations of every kind appear in relation to each other, and to the time and place that give them shape.
The meeting of minds is extraordinary as T. J. Clark writes on Jackson Pollock, Paul Muldoon on Carl Sandburg, Camille Paglia on Tennessee Williams, Sarah Vowell on Grant Wood’s American Gothic, Walter Mosley on hard-boiled detective fiction, Jonathan Lethem on Thomas Edison, Gerald Early on Tarzan, Bharati Mukherjee on The Scarlet Letter, Gish Jen on Catcher in the Rye, and Ishmael Reed on Huckleberry Finn. From Anne Bradstreet and John Winthrop to Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, from Alexander Graham Bell and Stephen Foster to Alcoholics Anonymous, Life, Chuck Berry, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ronald Reagan, this is America singing, celebrating itself, and becoming something altogether different, plural, singular, new.
In more than two hundred original essays, A New Literary History of America brings together the nation’s many voices. 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, the book gives us a new, kaleidoscopic view of what “Made in America” means. Literature, music, film, art, history, science, philosophy, political rhetoric—cultural creations of every kind appear in relation to each other, and to the time and place that give them shape.
The meeting of minds is extraordinary as T. J. Clark writes on Jackson Pollock, Paul Muldoon on Carl Sandburg, Camille Paglia on Tennessee Williams, Sarah Vowell on Grant Wood’s American Gothic, Walter Mosley on hard-boiled detective fiction, Jonathan Lethem on Thomas Edison, Gerald Early on Tarzan, Bharati Mukherjee on The Scarlet Letter, Gish Jen on Catcher in the Rye, and Ishmael Reed on Huckleberry Finn. From Anne Bradstreet and John Winthrop to Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, from Alexander Graham Bell and Stephen Foster to Alcoholics Anonymous, Life, Chuck Berry, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ronald Reagan, this is America singing, celebrating itself, and becoming something altogether different, plural, singular, new.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780674064102 |
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Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
Publication date: | 05/07/2012 |
Series: | Harvard University Press Reference Library , #16 |
Pages: | 1128 |
Product dimensions: | 6.40(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.90(d) |
About the Author
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Greil Marcus is the author of The Doors, Mystery Train, and other books.
Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.
Werner Sollors is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.
Table of Contents
Timeline
- Introduction
- Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
- 1507
- The name “America” appears on a map
- Toby Lester
- 1521, August 13
- Mexico in America
- Kirsten Silva Gruesz
- 1536, July 24
- 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, July 10
- Anne Bradstreet
- Wai Chee Dimock
- 1670
- The American jeremiad
- Emory Elliott
- 1670
- 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
- 1693–94, March 4
- 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
- 1765, December 23
- Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur
- Leo Damrosch
- 1773, September
- Phillis Wheatley
- Rafia Zafar
- 1776
- The Declaration of Independence
- Frank Kelleter
- 1784, June
- 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
- Jefrey 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
- 1801, March 4
- Jefferson’s first inaugural address
- Jan Ellen Lewis
- 1804, January
- The matter of Haiti
- Kaiama Glover
- 1809
- Cupola of the world
- Judith Richardson
- 1819
- The Missouri crisis
- John Stauffer
- 1820, November 27
- Landscape with birds
- Christoph Irmscher
- 1821
- Sequoyah, the Cherokee syllabary
- Lisa Brooks
- 1821, June 30
- Junius Brutus Booth
- Coppelia Kahn
- 1822
- Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the Ojibwe firefly, and Longfellow’s Hiawatha
- David Treuer
- 1825, November
- Thomas Cole and the Hudson River
- Alan Wallach
- 1826, July 4
- Songs of the republic
- Steve Erickson
- 1826
- 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, May 21
- Jump Jim Crow
- W. T. Lhamon, Jr.
- 1831, March 5
- The Cherokee Nation decision
- Philip Deloria
- 1832, July 10
- President Jackson’s bank veto
- Dan Feller
- 1835, January
- Democracy in America
- Ted Widmer
- 1835
- William Gilmore Simms, The Yemasseee
- Jefrey Johnson
- 1835
- The Sacred Harp
- Sean Wilentz
- 1836, February 23–March 6
- The Alamo and Texas border writing
- Norma E. Cantú
- 1836, February 28
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
- Kirsten Silva Gruesz
- 1837, August 31
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar”
- James Conant
- 1838, July 15
- “The Divinity School Address”
- Herwig Friedl
- 1838, September 3
- The slave narrative
- Caille Millner
- 1841
- “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
- Robert Clark
- 1846, June
- James Russell Lowell’s Biglow Papers
- Shelley Streeby
- 1846, late July
- Henry David Thoreau
- Jonathan Arac
- 1850
- The Scarlet Letter
- Bharati Mukherje
- 1850, July 19
- Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalist Movement
- Lawrence Buell
- 1850, August 5
- Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville
- Clark Blaise
- 1851
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Beverly Lowry
- 1852
- Hawthorne’s Blithedale Romance and utopian communities
- Winfried Fluck
- 1852, July 5
- Frederick Douglass, “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?”
- Liam Kennedy
- 1854, March
- 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, December 13
- The journeys of Little Women
- Shirley Samuels
- 1865, March 4
- Lincoln’s second inaugural address
- Ted Widmer
- 1865
- “Conditions of repose”
- Robin Kelsey
- 1869, March 4
- Carl Schurz
- Michael Boyden
- 1872, November 5
- All men and women are created equal
- Laura Wexler
- 1875
- The Winchester Rifle
- Merritt Roe Smith
- 1876, January 6
- Melville in the dark
- Kenneth W. Warren
- 1876, March 10
- The art of telephony
- Avital Ronell
- 1878
- “How to Make Our Ideas Clear”
- Christopher Hookway
- 1879
- John Muir and nature writing
- Scott Slovic
- 1881, January 24
- Henry James, Portrait of a Lady
- Alide Cagidemetrio
- 1884
- Mark Twain’s hairball
- Ishmael Red
- 1884, July
- The Linotype machine
- Lisa Gitelman
- 1884, November
- The Southwest imagined
- Leah Dilworth
- 1885
- The problem of error
- James Conant
- 1885, July
- Limits to violence
- James Dawes
- 1885, October
- Writing New Orleans
- Andrei Codrescu
- 1889, August 28
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
- Yael Schacher
- 1893
- Chief Simon Pokagon and Native American literature
- David Treuer
- 1895
- Ida B. Wells, A Red Record
- Jacqueline Goldsby
- 1896
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, Lyrics of Lowly Life
- Judith Jackson Fossett
- 1896, September 6
- Queen Lili‘uokalani
- Rob Wilson
- 1897, Memorial Day
- The Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Monument
- Richard Powers
- 1898, June 22
- Literature and imperialism
- Amy Kaplan
- 1899; 1924
- McTeague and Greed
- Gilberto Perez
- 1900
- Henry Adams
- T. J. Jackson Lears
- 1900
- The Wizard of Oz
- Gerald Early
- 1900; 1905
- Sister Carrie and The House of Mirth
- Farah Jasmine Grifin
- 1901
- Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition
- John Edgar Wideman
- 1903, May 5
- “The real American has not yet arrived”
- Aviva Taubenfeld
- 1903
- The invention of the blues
- Luc Sante
- 1903
- One sees what one sees
- Daniel Albright
- 1904, August 30
- Henry James in America
- Ross Posnock
- 1905, October 15
- Little Nemo in Slumberland
- Katherine Roeder
- 1906, April 9
- The Azusa Street revival
- R. J. Smith
- 1906, April 18 , 5:14 a.m.
- The San Francisco Earthquake
- Kathleen Moran
- 1911
- “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”
- Philip Furia
- 1912, April 15
- Lifeboats cut adrift
- Alan Ackerman
- 1912
- The lure of impossible things
- Heather Love
- 1912
- Tarzan begins his reign
- Gerald Early
- 1913
- A modernist moment
- Bonnie Costello
- 1915
- D. W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation
- Richard Schickel
- 1915
- Robert Frost
- Christian Wiman
- 1917
- The philosopher and the millionaire
- Richard J. Bernstein
- 1920, August 10
- Mamie Smith’s “Crazy Blues”
- Daphne A. Brooks
- 1921
- Jean Toomer
- Elizabeth Alexander
- 1922
- T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence
- Anita Patterson
- 1924
- F. O. Matthiessen meets Russell Cheney
- Robert Polito
- 1924, May 26
- The Johnson-Reed Act and ethnic literature
- Yael Schacher
- 1925
- The Great Gatsby
- Lan Tran
- 1925, June
- Sinclair Lewis
- Jefrey Ferguson
- 1925, July
- The Scopes trial
- Michael Kazin
- 1925, August 16
- Dorothy Parker
- Catherine Keyser
- 1926
- Fire!!
- Carla Kaplan
- 1926
- Hardboiled
- Walter Mosley
- 1926
- The Book-of-the-Month Club
- Joan Shelley Rubin
- 1927
- Carl Sandburg and The American Songbag
- Paul Muldoon
- 1927, May 16
- “Free to develop their faculties”
- Jefrey Rosen
- 1928, April 8, Easter Sunday
- Dilsey Gibson goes to church
- Werner Sollors
- 1928, Summer
- John Dos Passos
- Phoebe Kosman
- 1928, November 18
- The mouse that whistled
- Karal Ann Marling
- 1930
- “You're swell!”
- Robert Gottlieb
- 1930, March
- The Silent Enemy
- Micah Treuer
- 1931, March 19
- Nevada legalizes gambling
- David Thomson
- 1932
- Edmund Wilson, The American Jitters
- Anthony Grafton
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