American Literature and the Academy : The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession / Kermit Vanderbilt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vanderbilt, Kermit, author.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teachers--United States.

College teachers.

Criticism--United States--History.

Criticism.

Literary historians--United States.

Literary historians.

Scholarly publishing--United States--History.

Scholarly publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 39 illus.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1986]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Book One. Roots

Chapter 1. Prelude: Origins of the CHAL

Chapter 2. Organizing the CHAL Team

Chapter 3. Preface to Volume I: Trailblazers in the Nationalist Era of Samuel Knapp

Chapter 4. Rufus W. Griswold and the Collectors' Marketplace

Chapter 5. The Duyckincks among the Young Americans, the Knickerbockers, and Others

Chapter 6. Moses Coit Tyler and the Rise of American Literary History

Chapter 7. Charles F. Richardson and the Ferment of the Eighties

Chapter 8. Barrett Wendell in a Turn-of-the-Century Harvest

Chapter 9. The CHAL (Volume I) Appears

Chapter 10. And Then Volume II

Chapter 11. Interim: Some Insurgent Critics versus "the Professors"

Chapter 12. The CHAL Completed

Book Two. Growth

Chapter 13. A New Era: The Profession Establishes a Political Voice

Chapter 14. American Literature in the University: Study and Debate in the 1920s

Chapter 15. The Reinterpretation of American Literature (1928): Professional Scholarship after the CHAL

Chapter 16. American Literature (1929): The Profession Has a Journal

Chapter 17. Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought (1927-1930)

Chapter 18. The Heirs of Parrington: Four Leftist Histories during the Great Depression

Chapter 19. More Advocacy in the Thirties: Humanists, Agrarians, Freudians, and Nationalists

Chapter 20. American Literature in the University: Curriculum, Graduate Research, and Controversy in the Thirties

Chapter 21. Journals and Other Instruments of the New Scholarship

Book Three. Maturity

Chapter 22. The Profession Plans a New Literary History

Chapter 23. The Cooperative History Goes Independent: Organization and Theory (1942-1943)

Chapter 24. The Editors in Profile (1943)

Chapter 25. Screening the Contributors - and Early Contributions (1943-1944)

Chapter 26. American Literature and the Academy during World War II (1939-1945)

Chapter 27. The LHUS: Shaping the Text (1945-1948)

Chapter 28. Reception of the LHUS: Summary Estimate of the Profession

Postwar Epilogue. New Directions in a Thriving Profession

Appendix. Leaders of the American Literature Group (1921-1948)

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018)

ISBN:

1-5128-1911-5

OCLC:

1024014615