by Robert S. Levine, Michael A. Elliott, Sandra M. Gustafson, Amy Hungerford, Mary LoeffelholzRobert S. Levine
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Robert S. Levine (Ph.D. Stanford; General Editor and Editor, 1820–1865) is Distinguished University Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville; Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity; Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism; The Lives of Frederick Douglas; Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies; and (upcoming from Norton) The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. He has edited a number of books, including The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville and Norton Critical Editions of Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables and Melville’s Pierre. Levine has received fellowships from the NEH and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2014 the American Literature Section of the MLA awarded him the Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies.Michael A. Elliott (Ph.D. Columbia; Editor, 1865–1914) is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of English and American Studies and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University. He is the author of The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism and Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer. He is also the co-editor of two additional books: The American Novel, 1865–1940 (volume 6 of the Oxford History of the Novel in English) and American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader.Sandra M. Gustafson (Ph.D. UC Berkeley; Editor, Beginnings to 1820) is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic and Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America as well as co-editor of Cultural Narratives: Textuality and Performance in American Culture before 1900. Since 2008 she has edited the MLA-affiliated journal Early American Literature. She is a faculty affiliate of Notre Dame”s Center for Civil and Human Rights and a faculty fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.Amy Hungerford (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins; Editor, 1945 to the Present) is the Ruth Fulton Benedict Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. She is a scholar of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and the author of The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification; Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960; and, most recently, Making Literature Now. She is a founder of the Post45 collective and site editor of the group”s open access journal on post–1945 American literature and culture (post45.org).Mary Loeffelholz (Ph.D. Yale) is Professor of English and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Northeastern University. She is the author of Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory; Experimental Lives: Women and Literature, 1900–1945; and, most recently, From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry. With Martha Nell Smith, she edited the Blackwell Companion to Emily Dickinson. Her essays have appeared in such journals as American Literary History, English Literary History, the Yale Journal of Criticism, and Modern Language Quarterly.
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Preface xvAcknowledgments xxviiAmerican Literature 1914-1945Introduction 3Timeline 22Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950) 24Trainor, the Druggist 25″Butch” Weldy 25Margaret Fuller Slack 26Nellie Clark 26Abel Melveny 27Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) 27Luke Havergal 28Richard Cory 29Miniver Cheevy 29Eros Turannos 30Willa Cather (1873-1947) 32My Antonia 34The Sculptor”s Funeral 168Amy Lowell (1874-1925) 178The Captured Goddess 179Venus Transiens 180Madonna of the Evening Flowers 181September, 1918 182St. Louis 182New Heavens for Old 183Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) 184The Making of Americans 187 187Tender Buttons 190Objects 190World War I and its Aftermath 201Alan Seeger: I Have a Rendezvous with Death … 203Ernest Hemingway: Letter of August 18, 1918, to His Parents 204E. E. Cummings: From The Enormous Room 206New York Times: Ethnological Map of the World 210Jessie Redmon Fauset: From There Is Confusion 211John Allan Wyeth Jr.: Fromereville 213Gertrude Stein: From The Autobiography of Alice R. Toklas 214Robert Frost (1874-1963) 218The Pasture 219Mowing 219Mending Wall 220The Death of the Hired Man 221Home Burial 225After Apple-Picking 228The Wood-Pile 229The Road Not Taken 230The Oven Bird 230Birches 231″Out, Out-” 232Fire and Ice 233Nothing Gold Can Stay 233Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 233Desert Places 234Design 234Neither Out Far Nor In Deep 235Provide, Provide 235The Gift Outright 236Directive 236The Figure a Poem Makes 238Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) 240Trifles 241Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) 251Winesburg, Ohio 253Hands 253Mother 257Adventure 262Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) 266Chicago 267Fog 268Cool Tombs 268Grass 269Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) 269The Snow Man 271A High-Toned Old Christian Woman 272The Emperor of Ice-Cream 272Disillusionment of Ten O”clock 273Sunday Morning 273Anecdote of the Jar 276Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 277The Idea of Order at Key West 279Of Modern Poetry 280The Plain Sense of Things 281William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) 281The Young Housewife 283Portrait of a Lady 284Queen-Anne”s-Lace 284The Widow”s Lament in Springtime 285Spring and All 286To Elsie 286The Red Wheelbarrow 288The Dead Baby 289This Is just to Say 289A Sort of a Song 290The Dance (“In Brueghel”s great picture, The Kermess”) 290Burning the Christmas Greens 290Landscape with the Fall of Icarus 292Ezra Pound (1885-1972) 293To Whistler, American 295Portrait d”une Femme 296A Virginal 297A Pact 297In a Station of the Metro 297The River-Merchant”s Wife: A Letter 297Villanelle: The Psychological Hour 298FIugh Selwyn Mauberley (Life and Contacts) 300The Cantos 308I (“And then went down to the ship”) 308XVII (“So that the vines burst from my fingers”) 310XLV (“With Usura”) 313Modernist Manifestos 315F. T. Marinetti: From Manifesto of Futurism 316Mina Loy: Feminist Manifesto 318Ezra Pound: From A Retrospect 321Willa Gather: From The Novel Démeublé 324William Carlos Williams: From Spring and All 326Langston Hughes: From The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain 328H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) 330Mid-day 332Oread 332Leda 333Fragment 113 334Helen 335From The Walls Do Not Fall 335Marianne Moore (1887-1972) 337Poetry 339Marriage 340To a Snail 347The Paper Nautilus 348The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing 349In Distrust of Merits 350T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) 352The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 355Sweeney among the Nightingales 358From Tradition and the Individual Talent 359Gerontion 363The Waste Land 365The Hollow Men 378Journey of the Magi 381Four Quartets 382Burnt Norton 382Eugene O”Neill (1888-1953) 387Long Day”s Journey into Night 389Claude McKay (1889-1948) 467The Harlem Dancer 469Harlem Shadows 469The Lynching 470If We Must Die 470Africa 470America 471Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) 471Flowering Judas 473Pale Horse, Pale Rider 481Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) 515Sweat 517The Eatonville Anthology 525How It Feels to Be Colored Me 533Nella Larsen (1891-1964) 536Passing 538Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) 604Recuerdo 604I Think I Should Have Loved You Presently 605 605Apostrophe to Man 606I Too beneath Your Moon, Almighty Sex 606I Forgot for a Moment 607E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) 607Thy fingers make early flowers of 609In Just 609O sweet spontaneous 610Buffalo Bill”s 611The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls 611″Next to of course god america i 612I sing of Olaf glad and big 612Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond 613Anyone lived in a pretty how town 614My father moved through dooms of love 615Pity this busy monster, manunkind 617Jean Toomer (1894-1967) 617Cane 618Georgia Dusk 618Fern 619Portrait in Georgia 622Blood-Burning Moon 622Seventh Street 628F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) 629Winter Dreams 630Babylon Revisited 646John Dos Passos (1896-1970) 661U.S.A. 662The Big Money 662Newsreel LXVlII 662The Camera Eye (51) 664William Faulkner (1897-1962) 666As I Lay Dying 669A Rose for Emily 765Barn Burning 771Hart Crane (1899-1932) 783Chaplinesque 785At Melville”s Tomb 785The Bridge 786Tu Brooklyn Bridge 786From II. Powhatan”s Daughter 788VII. The Tunnel 791Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) 795The Sun Also Rises 797Chapter III 797Hills Like While Elephants 803Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) 807The Lost Boy 808Sterling Brown (1901-1989) 828Mister Samuel and Sam 829He Was a Man 830Master and Man 831Break of Day 832Bitter Fruit of the Tree 833Langston Hughes (1902-1967) 833The Negro Speaks of Rivers 835Mother to Son 835I, Too 836The Weary Blues 836Mulatto 837Song for a Dark Girl 838Genius Child 839Visitors to the Black Belt 839Note on Commercial Theatre 840Vagabonds 841Words Like Freedom 841Madam and Her Madam 841Freedom 842Madam”s Calling Cards 843Silhouette 843Theme for English B 844John Steinbeck (1902-1968) 845The Chrysanthemums 846Countee Cullen (1903-1946) 853Yet Do I Marvel 854Incident 854Heritage 855From the Dark Tower 858Uncle Jim 858Nathanael West (1903-1940) 859The Day of the Locust 861Richard Wright (1908-1960) 957The Man Who Was Almost a Man 958Selected Bibliographies D1Permissions Acknowledgments D19Index D23
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