United States Literary History: The Colonial Through the Early Modern Periods

[01] Colonial literatures and literary colonialism [02] The Puritan origins of American exceptionalism [03] Puritan mediatations as American autobiographies [04] The case of Anne Bradstreet [05] Translatio studii [sic] and westward expansionism [06] Mary Rowlandson's sanctification of violence [07] Reinventing the American revolution [08] Founding fictions of the new republic [09] Americanist self-fashioning I [10-Americanist self-fashioning II [11] Imagining nationality: The Last of the Mohicans [12] The captivity narrative reconsidered [13] Counter-nationalism: Native American orature [14] Dramas of national self-invention [15] Witnesses to different orders of freedom [16] Transcendentalism and social reform [17] Was transcendentalism a civil religion? [18] Hawthorne's re-invention of an American past [19] Sentimenal politics [20] Abolitionism, slavery and the racial imagination [21 The racism of the anti-slavery movement [22] The feminization of race politics [23] Traveling through darkness: Poe and Melville [24] Sentimental politics of Uncle Tom's Cabin [25] Dickinson's poetics of singularity [26] Lincoln's rhetoric of reconstruction [27] Walt Whitman and the Civil War [28] U.S. drama and the impending war [29] The emergence of regional literatures [30] Class becomes a literary category [31] Mark Twain and failure of reconstruction [32] Radical reconstruction[33] Re-imagining civility [34] Masculinizing culture [35] James' visionary possessions [36] Naturalism, realism and cultural consumption [37] Sexual politics and American literature [38] The destruction of the sentimental imagination [39] Where race and gender intersect [40] The international vocation of U.S. literatures