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American Literary Studies

A Methodological Reader
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"American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader" gathers together leading scholars of American literature to uniquely engage the strategies and methods prominent in literary scholarship today: Each has chosen an essay that he or she considers to be a classic in the field, which he or she then introduces, explaining why it is both exemplary in its approach and central to the issues that most engage American literary scholarship today. This volume serves as a starting point for teachers and students to explore the fundamental questions of American literary scholarship: What does "method" mean in literary studies? Which texts should it study? What makes literary study unique? What should literary scholarship do? "American Literary Studies" answers these questions by clearly articulating problems of methodology in American literary studies.
Introduction: What Is Method and Why DoesIt Matter?Part One: History and Literature in America 1 Domesticating Virtue: Coquettes and Revolutionaries in Young America2 Vanishing Americans: Gender, Empire, and New Historicism3 Seeing Sentiment: Photography, Race, and the Innocent Eye4 The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill Part Two: Reading "Culture" 5 Mass Culture/Popular Culture: Notes for a Humanist's Primer6 Dancing for Eels at Catherine Market 7 AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signi?cation8 The Occult of True Black Womanhood Part Three: Nationalism Reconsidered9 The Mass Public and the Mass Subject10 Traditional Narrative: Contemporary Uses, Historical Perspectives 11 The Stakes of Textual Border-Crossing: Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach in Sinocentric, Asian American, and Feminist Critical Practices12 Americanization: What Are We Talking About?
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