A new literary history of America
By: edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors.
Contributors: Marcus, Greil.; Sollors, Werner.
Series: Harvard University Press reference library
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1095
ISBN-13: 9780674035942
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism; United States -- Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

CONTENTS:

The name ``America'' appears on a map -- Mexico in America  -- Alvar Nunez 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 Sewail, The Selling of Joseph -- Benjamin Franklin, The Silence Dogood Letters -- The Great Awakening -- Two national anthems -- Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur -- 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 school -- 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 Yemassee -- 

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 -- Moby-Dick -- 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 -- 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 -- ``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 -- Chaplinesque -- 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 -- Nevada legalizes gambling -- The American Jitters -- Andrea Most -- 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! -- 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 -- Tennessee Williams -- Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics -- Saul Bellow -- “The Birth of the Cool'' -- “Damned busy painting'' -- A poet among painters -- The Catcher in the Rye -- 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” -- “For the union dead'' -- “The last stand on Earth'' -- 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 -- Linda Lovelace -- 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 -- Hurricane Katrina -- Barack Obama.