Lectures on American literature / Justin Quinn [and six others], editors ; Michal Peprník, William Bradley Vice, recenzovali ; Alena Jirsová, redakce ; Kateřina řezáčová, grafická úprava.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quinn, Justin, (ed.)

Contributor:

Quinn, Justin, editor.

Peprník, Michal, reviewer.

Vice, William Bradley, reviewer.

Jirsová, Alena, editor.

řezáčová, Kateřina, cover designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

[Prague, Czech Republic] : Karolinum, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first edition of this book, published in 2002, aimed to complete the study material for our students of American literature. The third edition strives to emphasize this aspect while expanding and deepening the general overview as well as including other important movements and authors. The exposition of the 20th century underwent major changes: the scholars added new texts while supplementing the older ones to comply with the development of critical and academic approaches. The book is written to the point and in comprehensible language, corresponding with the ambition to present and explain the development of one of the most interesting world literatures to university students.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Note on third edition""; ""Introduction""; ""AMERICAN LITERATURE: BEGINNINGS TO 1914""; ""1 Historical Influences & Distinctive Features""; ""Alien Reality of the New World""; ""Religious Dissent""; ""Polycentrism""; ""Multiculturalism and Ethnicity""; ""2 Periodization of American Literature""; ""3 Earliest Monuments of American Literature""; ""Introduction""; ""General History of Virginia""; ""Of Plymouth Plantation""; ""4 The Shaping of the Puritan Self""; ""Introduction""; ""John Cotton and Antinomianism""; ""Poetry and Private Life: Anne Bradstreet""

""Survival and Damnation: Rowlandson and Wigglesworth""""Triumphs and Traps of Baroque Sensibility: Taylor and Cotton Mather""; ""5 The Eighteenth Century: The Great Awakenings & the Enlightenment""; ""Introduction""; ""Jonathan Edwards""; ""First and Second Great Awakenings""; ""Benjamin Franklin""; ""6 Revolution & the Early Republic""; ""Introduction""; ""Declarations of Independence""; ""Revolution and Religion""; ""The Republic of Letters""; ""American Utopias""; ""American Utopias and Voluntary Association""; ""Colonial Times in Retrospect""

""7 Inventing the Indians: Bryant, Cooper, Simms & LongfelloW""""Introduction""; ""William Cullen Bryant""; ""James Fenimore Cooper""; ""Simms & Longfellow""; ""8 American Gothic: Brockden Brown & Poe""; ""Introduction""; ""Charles Brocken Brown""; ""Edgar Allan Poe""; ""9 American Transcendentalism: Emerson & Thoreau""; ""Introduction""; ""Ralph Waldo Emerson""; ""Henry David Thoreau""; ""10 Late Romanticism: Hawthorne & Melville""; ""Introduction""; ""Nathaniel Hawthorne ""; ""Herman Melville""; ""11 The Birth of Modern Poetry: Whitman & Dickinson""; ""Introduction""; ""Walt Whitman""

""Emily Dickinson""""12 Mark Twain, the Tall Tale, & Local Color""; ""Introduction""; ""Mark Twain""; ""Other Local Color""; ""13 Fictions of Realism and Consciousness: Howells, & the James Brothers""; ""Introduction""; ""William Dean Howells""; ""Henry James""; ""William James""; ""14 Naturalism""; ""Introduction""; ""Henry Adams""; ""Frank Norris""; ""Stephen Crane""; ""Theodore Dreiser""; ""Jack London""; ""15 Abolitionism & African-American Literature from Beginnings through the Harlem Renaissance""; ""Introduction""; ""Abolitionism""; ""Frederick Douglass""; ""Washington and Du Bois""

""Eugene O�Neill""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed April 11, 2014).

ISBN:

9788024623474

8024623471

OCLC:

878145819