Table of Contents: “…Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Loosed Canons: The Race for Literary History; CHAPTER ONE: Representing Chaos and Reading Race; CHAPTER TWO: Truth Stranger than Fiction: African American Identity and (Auto) Biography; CHAPTER THREE: The Shortest Point between Two Lines: Writing African Americans into American Literary History; CHAPTER FOUR: Choreographing Chaos: African American Literature in Time and Space; CHAPTER FIVE: The Story at the End of the Story: African American Literature and the Civil War; CONCLUSION: Covenants and Communities: The Demands of African American Literature.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The pre-history of American literature : early prospects (1850-1910) -- Live and let live : debating contemporary literature (1890-1930) -- The uses of language : literary polyvocality and ethnic continuity (1880-1950) -- Precursors and exemplars : genealogies in American literary history.…”
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Table of Contents: “…1965""; ""4 Notre Maitre le Passé, 1967â€?1969""; ""5 Literary History as Heilsgeschichte, 1973â€?1983""; ""6 Autonomy, Literature, and the National, 1991â€?""…”
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Table of Contents: “…National + Literary + History --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Queering the "Classics": Willa Cather and the Literary History of the United States --…”
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Table of Contents: “…History as Conjugation: Stein's Stanzas in Meditation and the Literary History of the Modernist Long Poem --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Modernism, translation, and the fields of literary history -- "Splintered staves": Pound, comparative literature, and the translation of Spanish literary history -- Restaging the disaster: Dos Passos, empire, and literature after the Spanish-American war -- Jimenez, modernism/o, and the languages of comparative modernist studies -- Unamuno, nativism, and the politics of the vernacular; or, On the authenticity of translation -- Negro and Negro: translating American blackness in the shadows of the Spanish empire -- "Spanish is a language tu": Hemingway's cubist Spanglish and its legacies -- Conclusion: Worlds between languages-the Spanglish Quixote.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Historical synopsis of Canadian literature in English -- Canon-making and literary history in Canada -- Indigenous Canadians -- About this book.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Goudie -- Oceanic turns and American literary history in global context / Michelle Burnham.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Translating the Self: Between Discord and Individualism in American Literary History; 2 Hawthorne's Drama of the Self: Antebellum Psychology and Sociality; 3 ""But the Past Was Not Dead"": Aesthetics, History, and Community in Grandfather's Chair and The Scarlet Letter; 4. …”
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Table of Contents: “…From popular science to contemplation: the clouds of The cloud of unknowing / Gillian Rudd -- 'Dreams and plain dotage': the value of The birth of mankind (1540-1654) / Elaine Hobby -- Natural rights and natural history in Anna Barbauld and Mary Wollstonecraft / Sharon Ruston -- George Eliot, geometry and gender / Alice Jenkins -- On the back of the light waves: novel possibilitieses in the 'fourth dimension' / Katy Price -- Le Fanu's 'Carmilla', Ireland, and diseased vision / Martin Willis -- Evolution, literary history and science fiction / Brian Baker -- 'The luxury of storytelling': science, literature and cultural contest in Ian McEwan's narrative practice / David Amigoni.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The descent of man and selection in relation to sex: the Darwinian unknown in American literary history -- Sexual selection -- The descent of love -- Recurrent problems, themes, and scenes in the courtship novels, 1871-1926 -- Evolutionary anthropology and sexual selection in William Dean Howells's Their wedding journey -- Courting design: chance, choice, and sexual difference in Howells's courtship novels of the 1870s -- Darwinian problems in a modern instance: heredity, primitive marriage, and male sexual aggression -- Henry James and The descent of man: "The loves of the quadrupeds" in "The madonna of the future" and Roderick Hudson -- Psychological Darwinism in The portrait of a lady -- Darwin and "The natural history of doctresses": the sex war between Howells, Phelps, Jewett, and James -- Kate Chopin's quarrel with Darwin before the awakening -- The teeth of desire: the awakening and the descent of man.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Asian American literary history: war, memory, and representation / Gayle K. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Toulouse -- Essential, portable, mythical Margaret Fuller / Jary Loeffelholz -- Emily Dickinson in history and literary history / Margaret Dickie -- María Amparo Ruiz de Burton negotiates American literary politics and culture / Amerlia María de la Luz Montes -- Edith Wharton's ironic realism / Carol J. …”
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