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Background Readings for Teachers of American Literature
Second Edition| ©2014 Venetria Patton

A collection of critical essays for instructors of American literature
A collection of critical essays for instructors of American literature
With chapters that address literary and social movements, questions of identity, the geopolitical aspects of American literature, and classroom approaches, Background Readings for Teachers of American Literature, Second Edition, provides an overview of changes in the field of American literary studies and a survey of its popular themes. The twenty-seven readings include important scholarship, critical essays, and practical ideas from working teachers. This professional resource offers support to instructors using The Bedford Anthology of American Literature.
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"The book asks classroom teachers to think about the structures and issues that underlie the texts available for an American literature course as well as to reflect on what approaches he or she is comfortable with and what might be enlightening contexts and perspectives for the students."—Robert Bergstrom, University of Nebraska – Lincoln"The strength of this collection lies in its ability to provide a brief yet comprehensive overview of significant literary and theoretical issues governing the teaching of American literature."—Donna Campbell, Washington State University

Background Readings for Teachers of American Literature
Second Edition| ©2014
Venetria Patton
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Background Readings for Teachers of American Literature
Second Edition| 2014
Venetria Patton
Table of Contents
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Preface
1. CHALLENGES OF TEACHING AMERICAN LITERATURE
American Literary Studies to the Civil War
Cecelia Tichi
American Literary and Cultural Studies Since the Civil War
Philip Fisher
The End of “American” Literature: Toward a Multicultural Practice
Gregory S. Jay
2. CONSIDERING LITERARY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
*1670 The American Jeremiad
Emory Elliott
Towards a Definition of American Modernism
Daniel Joseph Singal
Revisioning the Harlem Renaissance
Venetria K. Patton and Maureen Honey
*Introduction: Postmodernism, Then
Jason Gladstone and Daniel Worden
3. CONSIDERING IDENTITIES
Assumed Identities
David Palumbo-Liu
Interrogating “Whiteness,” (De)Constructing “Race”
AnnLouise Keating
From Introduction to American Indian Literatures
A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff
*Introduction: Who Are We?
Marta Caminero-Santangelo
African-American Literature: A Survey
Trudier Harris
Asian American Literature
Elaine H. Kim
*Feminist Literary Criticism and Theory
Shari Benstock, Suzanne Ferriss, and Susanne Woods
Manhood, Class, and the American Renaissance
David Leverenz
*Gender Studies
Michael Ryan
CONSIDERING THE GEOPOLITICAL
*America
Kirsten Silva Gruesz
*What’s Colonial about Colonial America
Michael Warner
Manifest Domesticity
Amy Kaplan
American Literary Emergence as a Postcolonial Phenomenon
Lawrence Buell
*The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ecocriticism
Ursula K. Heise
4. APPROACHES IN THE CLASSROOM
Bringing New Historicism into the American Literature Survey
Margaret Faye Jones
Early Anglo-American Poetry: Genre, Voice, Art, and Representation
William J. Scheick
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Slave: Douglass’s Frontispiece Engravings
Ed Folsom
*Enabling Undergraduates to Understand Advanced Humanities Research: Teaching with the Dickinson Electronic Archives
Martha Nell Smith
*From Gilded Garden to Golden Anniversary: Teaching Hurston’s “The Gilded Six-Bits”
Margaret D. Bauer
*Asking Ecocritical Questions
SueEllen Campbell
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Background Readings for Teachers of American Literature
Second Edition| 2014
Venetria Patton
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Second Edition| 2014
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