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A new literary history of America
Marcus, Greil.
Adult Nonfiction PS92 .N39 2009
Marcus, Greil.
Adult Nonfiction PS92 .N39 2009
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| Contents | Page |
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| Timeline | |
| Introduction | |
| The name "America" appears on a map | |
| Mexico in America | |
| Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca | |
| "Counterfeited according to the truth" | |
| Fear and love in the Virginia colony | |
| A city upon a hill | |
| A nearer neighbor to the Indians | |
| Anne Bradstreet | |
| The American jeremiad | |
| The stamp of God's image | |
| The Jesuit relations | |
| Francis Daniel Pastorius | |
| The Salem witchcraft trials | |
| Edward Taylor | |
| Samuel Sewall, The Selling of Joseph | |
| Benjamin Franklin, The Silence Dogood Letters | |
| The Great Awakening | |
| Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner 1765, December 23 | |
| Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur | |
| Phillis Wheatley | |
| The Declaration of Independence | |
| Charles Willson Peale | |
| James Madison, Notes of the Debates in the Federal Convention | |
| John Adams, Discourses on Davila | |
| Philip Freneau and The National Gazette | |
| Washington's farewell address | |
| Mary Rowlandson and the Alien and Sedition Acts | |
| American gothic | |
| Jefferson's first inaugural address | |
| The matter of Haiti | |
| Cupola of the world | |
| The Missouri crisis | |
| Landscape with birds | |
| Sequoyah, the Cherokee syllabary | |
| Junius Brutus Booth | |
| Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the Ojibwe firefly, and Longfellow's Hiawatha | |
| Thomas Cole and the Hudson River | |
| Songs of the republic | |
| Cooper's Leatherstocking tales | |
| Transnational poetry | |
| Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon | |
| David Walker, Appeal, in Four Articles | |
| Jump Jim Crow | |
| The Cherokee Nation decision | |
| President Jackson's bank veto | |
| Democracy in America | |
| William Gilmore Simms, The Yemasseee | |
| The Sacred Harp | |
| The Alamo and Texas border writing | |
| Richard Henry Dana, Jr. | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" | |
| "The Divinity School Address" | |
| The slave narrative | |
| "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" | |
| James Russell Lowell's Biglow Papers | |
| Henry David Thoreau | |
| The Scarlet Letter | |
| Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalist Movement | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville | |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
| Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance and utopian communities | |
| Frederick Douglass, "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?" | |
| Maria Cummins and sentimental fiction | |
| Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass | |
| The Lincoln-Douglas debates | |
| The science of the Indian | |
| Emily Dickinson | |
| The journeys of Little Women | |
| Lincoln's second inaugural address | |
| "Conditions of repose" | |
| Carl Schurz | |
| All men and women are created equal | |
| The Winchester Rifle | |
| Melville in the dark | |
| The art of telephony | |
| "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" | |
| John Muir and nature writing | |
| Henry James, Portrait of a Lady | |
| Mark Twain's hairball | |
| The Linotype machine | |
| The Southwest imagined | |
| The problem of error | |
| Limits to violence | |
| Writing New Orleans | |
| The introduction of motion pictures 1889, August 28 | |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | |
| Chief Simon Pokagon and Native American literature | |
| Ida B. Wells, A Red Record | |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar, Lyrics of Lowly Life | |
| Queen Lili'uokalani | |
| The Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Monument | |
| Literature and imperialism | |
| McTeague and Greed | |
| Henry Adams | |
| The Wizard of Oz | |
| Sister Carrie and The House of Mirth | |
| Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition | |
| The problem of the color line 1903, May 5 | |
| "The real American has not yet arrived" | |
| The invention of the blues | |
| One sees what one sees | |
| Henry James in America | |
| Little Nemo in Slumberland | |
| The Azusa Street revival | |
| The San Francisco Earthquake | |
| "Alexander's Ragtime Band" | |
| Lifeboats cut adrift | |
| The lure of impossible things | |
| Tarzan begins his reign | |
| A modernist moment | |
| D. W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation | |
| Robert Frost | |
| The philosopher and the millionaire | |
| Mamie Smith's "Crazy Blues" | |
| Jean Toomer | |
| T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence | |
| F. O. Matthiessen meets Russell Cheney | |
| The Johnson-Reed Act and ethnic literature | |
| The Great Gatsby | |
| Sinclair Lewis | |
| The Scopes trial | |
| Dorothy Parker | |
| Fire!! | |
| Hardboiled | |
| The Book-of-the-Month Club | |
| Carl Sandburg and The American Songbag | |
| "Free to develop their faculties" | |
| Dilsey Gibson goes to church | |
| John Dos Passos | |
| The mouse that whistled | |
| "You're swell!" | |
| The Silent Enemy | |
| Grant Wood's American Gothic" 1931, March 19 | |
| Nevada legalizes gambling | |
| Edmund Wilson, The American Jitters | |
| Arthur Miller | |
| The River Rouge plant and industrial beauty | |
| Ned Cobb | |
| Baby Face is censored | |
| FDR's first Fireside Chat | |
| Robert Penn Warren | |
| The Popular Front | |
| The skyscraper | |
| Alcoholics Anonymous | |
| Porgy and Bess | |
| Gone with the Wind and Absalom, Absalom! 1936, July 5 | |
| Two days in Harlem | |
| Life begins | |
| Superman | |
| Jelly Roll Morton speaks | |
| Billie Holiday, "Strange Fruit" | |
| Up from invisibility | |
| "No way like the American way" | |
| Preston Sturges | |
| An insolent style | |
| Citizen Kane | |
| The word "multicultural" | |
| Hemingway's paradise, Hemingway's prose | |
| The second Bill of Rights | |
| Bebop | |
| Thomas Pynchon and modern war | |
| The atom bomb | |
| Integrating the military | |
| Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics | |
| Saul Bellow | |
| "Birth of the Cool" | |
| "Damned busy painting" | |
| A poet among painters | |
| The Catcher in the Rye 1951 | |
| James Jones, From Here to Eternity | |
| A soft voice | |
| Elia Kazan and the blacklist in Hollywood | |
| C. L. R. James | |
| The song in country music | |
| Wallace Stevens, Collected Poems | |
| "The self-respect of my people" | |
| A. J. Liebling and the Marciano-Moore fight | |
| A generation in miniature | |
| Nabokov's Lolita | |
| "Roll Over Beethoven" | |
| Dr. Seuss | |
| "Nobody's perfect" | |
| Psycho | |
| More than a game | |
| JFK's inaugural address and Catch-22 | |
| The author as advertisement | |
| Bob Dylan writes "Song to Woody" | |
| "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art" | |
| "Letter from Birmingham Jail" | |
| Robert Lowell, "For the Union Dead" | |
| The last stand on Earth 1965, September 11 | |
| The Council on Interracial Books for Children | |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X | |
| Norman Mailer | |
| The illusory babels of language | |
| The plight of conservative literature | |
| Elizabeth Bishop, Complete Poems | |
| The first Asian Americans | |
| The eye of Vietnam | |
| Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker | |
| Loisaida literature | |
| Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck | |
| Gayl Jones | |
| Toni Morrison | |
| Edmund White, A Boy's Own Story | |
| Wild Style | |
| Maya Lin's wall | |
| Harriet Wilson | |
| Henry Roth | |
| Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey | |
| Philip Roth | |
| Twenty-first-century free verse | |
| Richard Powers, The Time of Our Singing | |
| Barack Obama |
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