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A new literary history of America / edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors.

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

xxvii, 1095 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Harvard University Press reference library

Harvard University Press reference library.

American literature -- History and criticism.

United States -- Civilization.

Marcus, Greil.

Sollors, Werner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1507, the name "America" appears on a map / Toby Lester -- 1521 Mexico in America / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- 1536, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca / Ilan Stavans -- 1585, "Counterfeited according to the truth" / Michael Gaudio -- 1607, Fear and love in the Virginia colony / Adam Goodheart -- 1630, A city upon a hill / Elizabeth Winthrop -- A nearer neighbor to the Indians / Ted Widmer -- 1666, Anne Bradstreet / Wai Chee Dimock -- 1670, The American jeremiad / Emory Elliott ; The stamp of God's image / Jason D. LaFountain -- 1673, The Jesuit relations / Laurent Dubois -- 1683, Francis Daniel Pastorius / Alfred L. Brophy -- 1692, The Salem witchcraft trials / Susan Castillo -- 1693-1694, Edward Taylor / Werner Sollors -- 1700, Samuel Sewall, "The selling of Joseph" / David Blight -- 1722, Benjamin Franklin, The Silence Dogood letters / Joyce E. Chaplin -- 1740, The Great Awakening / Joanne Van Der Woude -- Late 1740s; 1814, Two national anthems / John Picker -- 1765, Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur / Leo Damrosch -- 1773, Phillis Wheatley / Rafia Zafar -- 1776, The Declaration of Independence / Frank Kelleter -- 1784, Charles Willson Peale / Michael Leja -- 1787, James Madison, "Notes of the debates in the federal convention" / Mitchell Meltzer -- 1787-1790, John Adams, "Discourses on Davila" / John Diggins -- 1791, Philip Freneau and "The National Gazette" / Jeffrey L. Pasley -- 1796, Washington's farewell address / François Furstenberg -- 1798, Mary Rowlandson and the Alien and Sedition Acts / Nancy Armstrong -- 1798, American Gothic / Marc Amfreville --

1801, Jefferson's first inaugural address / Jan Ellis Lewis -- 1804, The matter of Haiti / Kaima Glover - 1809, Cupola of the world / Judith Richardson -- 1819, The Missouri crisis / John Stauffer -- 1820, Landscape with birds / Christoph Irmscher -- 1821, Sequoyah, the Cherokee syllabary / Lisa Brooks ; Junius Brutus Booth / Coppélia Kahn -- 1822, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the Ojibwe firefly, and Longfellow's "Hiawatha" / Davie Treuer -- 1825, Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School / Alan Wallach -- 1826, Songs of the republic / Steve Erickson -- 1826, Cooper's Leatherstocking tales / Richard Hutson -- 1826; 1927 Transnational poetry / Stephen Burt -- 1827, Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon / Terryl L. Givens -- 1828, David Walker, "Appeal, in four articles" / Tommie Shelby -- 1830, Jump Jim Crow / W. T. Lhamon, Jr. -- 1831, The "Cherokee Nation" decision / Philip Deloria -- 1832, President Jackson's bank veto / Dan Feller -- 1835, "Democracy in America" / Ted Widmer -- 1835, William Gilmore Simms, "The Yemassee" / Jeffrey Johnson -- 1835, "The Sacred harp" / Sean Wilentz -- 1836, The Alamo and Texas border writing / Norma E. Cantu -- 1836, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" / James Conant -- 1838, "The Divinity School Address / Herwig Friedl ; 1838, The slave narrative / Caille Millner -- 1841, "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / Robert Clark -- 1846, James Russell Lowell's "Biglow papers" / Shelley Streeby ; 1846, Henry David Thoreau / Jonathan Arac --

1850, "The Scarlet letter" / Bharati Mukherjee -- 1850, Margaret Fuller and the Trancendentalist movement / Lawrence Buell -- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville / Clark Blaise -- 1851, "Moby-Dick" / Greil Marcus -- 1851, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" / Beverly Lowry -- 1852, Hawthorne's "Blithedale romance" and utopian communities / Winifried Fluck ; 1852, Frederick Douglass, "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" / Liam Kennedy -- 1854, Maria Cummins and sentimental fiction / Cindy Weinstein -- 1855, Walt Whitman, "Leaves of grass" / Angus Fletcher -- 1858, The Lincoln-Douglas debates / Michael T. Gilmore -- 1859, The science of the Indian / Scott Richard Lyons -- 1861, Emily Dickinson / Susan Stewart -- 1862, The journeys of "Little women" / Shirley Samuels -- 1865, Lincoln's 2nd inaugural address / Ted Widmer -- 1865, "Conditions of repose" / Robin Kelsey -- 1869, Carl Schurz / Michael Boyden -- 1872, All men and women are created equal / Laura Wexler -- 1875, The Winchester rifle / Merritt Roe Smith -- 1876, Melville in the dark / Kenneth W. Warren -- 1876, The art of telephony / Avital Ronell -- 1878, "How to make our ideas clear" / Christopher Hoodway -- 1879, John Muir and nature writing / Scott Slovic -- 1881, Henry James, "Portait of a Lady" / Alide Cagidemetrio -- 1884, Mark Twain's hairball / Ishmael Reed -- 1884, The linotype machine / Lisa Gitelman -- 1884, The Southwest imagined / Leah Dilworth -- 1885, The problem of error / James Conant -- 1865, Limits to violence / James Dawes -- 1865, Writing New Orleans / Andrei Codrescu -- 1888, The introduction of motion pictures / Jonathan Lethem -- 1889, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court / Yael Schacher -- 1893, Chief Simon Pokagon and Native American literature / David Treuer -- 1895 / Ida B. Wells, "A Red Record" / Jacqueline Goldsby -- 1896, Paul Laurence Dunbar, "Lyrics of lowly life" / Judith Jackson Fossett -- 1896, Queen Lili'uokalani / Rob Wilson -- 1897, The Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Monument / Richard Powers -- 1898, Literature and imperialism / Amy Kaplan -- 1899; 1924, "McTeague" and "Greed" / Gilberto Perez --

1900, Henry Adams / T. J. Jackson Lears -- 1900, "The Wizard of Oz" / Gerald Early -- 1900; 1905, "Sister Carrie" and "The House of Mirth" / Farah Jasmine Griffin -- 1901, Charles W. Chestnut, "The marrow of tradition" --1901; 1903, The problem of the color line / Arnold Rampersad -- 1903, "The real American has not yet arrived" / Aviva Taubenfeld -- 1903, The invention of the blues / Luc Sante -- 1903, One sees what one sees / Daniel Albright -- 1904, Henry James in America / Ross Posnock -- 1905, "Little Nemo in Slumberland" / Kerry Roeder ; 1906, The Azusa Street revival / RJ Smith -- 1906, The San Francisco Earthquake / Kathleen Moran -- 1911, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" / Philip Furia -- 1912, Lifeboats cut adrift / Alan Ackerman -- 1912, The lure of impossible things / Heather Love -- 1912, Tarzan begins his reign / Gerald Early -- 1913, A modernist moment / Bonnie Costello -- 1915, D. W. Griffith, "The Birth of a Nation" / Richard Schickel -- 1913, Robert Frost / Christian Wiman -- 1917, The philosopher and the millionaire / Richard J. Bernstein -- 1920, Mamie Smith's "Crazy Blues" / Daphne A. Brooks -- 1921, Jean Toomer / Elizabeth Alexander -- 1922, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence / Anita Patterson -- 1923, Chaplinesque / David Thomson -- 1924, F. O. Matthiessen meets Russell Cheney / Robert Polito -- 1924, The Johnson-Reed Act and ethnic literature / Yael Schacher -- 1925, "The Great Gatsby" / Lan Tran -- 1925, Sinclair Lewis / Jeffrey Ferguson -- 1925, The Scopes trial / Michael Kazin -- 1925 Dorothy Parker / Catherine Keyser -- 1926, "Fire!" / Carla Kaplan -- 1926, Hardboiled / Walter Mosley 1926, The Book-of-the-Month Club / Joan Shelly Rubin -- 1927, Carl Sandburg and "The American Songbag" / Paul Muldoon -- 1927, "Free to develop their faculties" / Jeffrey Rosen -- 1928, Dilsey Gibson goes to church / Werner Sollors -- 1928, John Dos Passos / Phoebe Kosman ; The mouse that whistled / Karal Ann Marling -- 1930, "You're swell" / Robert Gottlieb -- 1930, "The Silent Enemy" / Micah Treuer -- 1930, Grant Wood's "American Gothic" / Sarah Vowell -- 1931, Nevada legalizes gambling / David Thomson -- 1932, Edmund Wilson, "The American jitters" / Anthony Grafton -- 1932, Arthur Miller / Andrea Most -- 1932, The River Rouge plant and industrial beauty / John M. Staudenmaiser, S.J. -- 1932, Ned Cobb / Robert Cantwell -- 1933, "Baby Face" is censored / Stephanie Zacharek -- 1933, FDR's first Fireside Chat / Paula Rabinowitz -- 1934, Robert Penn Warren / Howell Raines -- 1935, The Popular Front / Angela Miller -- 1935, The skyscraper / Sarah Whiting -- 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous / Michael Tolkin -- 1935, "Porgy and Bess" / John Rockwell -- 1936, "Gone with the Wind" and "Absalom, Absalom!" / Carolyn Porter -- 1936, Two days in Harlem / Adam Bradley -- 1936, "Life" begins / Michael Lesy -- 1938, Superman / Douglas Wolk -- 1938, Jelly Roll Morton speaks / Marybeth Hamilton -- 1939, Billie Holiday, "Strange Fruit" / Robert O'Meally -- 1939; 1981, Up from invisibility / Josef Jařab -- 1940, "No way like the American way" / Erika Doss -- 1940-1944, Preston Sturges / Douglas McGrath -- 1941, An insolent style / Carrie Tirado Bramen -- 1941, "Citizen Kane" / Joseph McBride -- 1941, The word "multicultural" / Werner Sollors -- 1943, Hemingway's paradise, Hemingway's prose / Keith Taylor -- 1944, The second Bill of Rights / Cass R. Sunstein -- 1945, Bebop / Ingrid Monson -- 1945, Thomas Pynchon and modern war / Glenda Carpio -- 1945, The atom bomb / Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi -- 1946, Integrating the military / Gerald Early -- 1947, Tennessee Williams / Camille Paglia -- 1948, Norbert Wiener, "Cybernetics" / David A. Mindell -- 1948, Saul Bellow / Ruth Wisse -- 1949-1950, "The birth of cool" / Ted Gioia --

1950, "Damned busy painting" / T. J. Clark -- 1951, A poet among painters / Mark Ford -- 1951, "The Catcher in the Rye" / Gish Jen -- 1951, James Jones, "From Here to Eternity" / Lindsay Waters -- 1951, A soft voice / M. Lynn Weiss -- 1952, Elia Kazan and the blacklist in Hollywood / Michael Ventura -- 1952, C. L. R. James / Donald E. Pease -- 1953, The song in country music / Dave Hickey -- 1954, Wallace Stevens, "Collected poems" / Helen Vendler -- 1955, "The self-respect of my people" / Monica L. Miller -- 1955, A. J. Liebling and the Marciano-Moore fight / Carlo Rotella -- 1955, A generation in miniature / Richard Candida Smith -- 1955, Nabokov's "Lolita" / Stephen Schiff -- 1956, "Roll Over Beethoven" / James Miller -- 1957, Dr. Seuss / Philip Nel -- 1959, "Nobody's perfect" / William J. Mann -- 1960, "Psycho" / William Beard -- 1960, More than a game / Michael MacCambridge -- 1961, JFK's inaugural address and "Catch-22" / Charles Taylor -- 1961, The author as advertisement / David Thomson -- 1962, Bob Dylan writes "Song to Woody" / Joshua Clover -- 1962, "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art" / Howard Hampton -- 1963, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" / George Hutchinson -- 1964, Robert Lowell, "For the Union Dead" / Peter Sacks -- 1964, "The last stand on earth" / Gary Kamiya -- 1965, The Council on Interracial Books for Children / Dianne Johnson -- 1965, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" / David Bradley -- 1968, Norman Mailer / Mary Gaitskill -- 1968, The illusory babels of language / Hal Foster -- 1968, The plight of conservative literature / Michael Kimmage -- 1969, Eilzabeth Bishop, "Complete poems" / Laura Quinney -- 1969, The first Asian Americans / Hua Hsu -- 1969, The eye of Vietnam / Thi Phuong-Lan Bui -- 1970, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker / Cheryl A. Wall -- 1970; 1972, Linda Lovelace / Anne Marlowe -- 1973, Loisaida literature / Frances R. Aparicio -- 1973, Adrienne Rich, "Diving into the Wreck" / Maureen N. McLane -- 1975, Gayl Jones / Robert O'Meally -- 1981, Toni Morrison / Farah Jasmine Griffin -- 1982, Edmund White, "A Boy's Own Story" / Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum -- 1982, "Wild Style" / Hua Hsu -- 1982, Maya Lin's wall / Anne M. Wagner -- 1982, Harriet Wilson / Saidiya V. Hartman -- 1985, Henry Roth / Mario Materassi -- 1987, Maxine Hong Kingston, "Tripmaster Monkey" / Seo-Young Chu -- 1995, Philip Roth / Hana Wirth-Nesher -- 2001, 21st-century free verse / Stephen Burt -- 2003, Richard Powers, "The Time of Our Singing" / Greil Marcus -- 2005, Hurricane Katrina / Greil Marcus & Werner Sollors -- 2008, Barack O'Bama / Kara Walker.

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