Readings on Reserve

Here's the list of works that I asked to be put on reserve at Reed Library--a small sampling of some of the most important works on American literature and culture. Please be aware that some of them had to be ordered (those without call numbers by them in particular), and may not have arrived yet. Although I will periodically update this list to indicate when newly-ordered books have arrived at the circulation desk, your best bet for the most up-to-date availability results is to check the list in the black book at the circulation desk. You can also go to the Reed Library web site, click on the "Reed's Online Catalog" link, and search for works that don't yet have call numbers listed below.

Major Critical Studies

• William Andrews, To Tell a Free Story E 185.96 .A57 1986
• Nina Baym, Feminism and American Literary History: Essays PS 152 B39 1992
• Joshua Bellin, The Demon of the Continent: Indians and the Shaping of American Literature PS 173 I6 B45 2001
• Sacvan Bercovitch, The Rites of Assent PS 92 B45 1993
• Gillian Brown, Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America PS 374.D57B7 1990
• Lawrence Buell, New England Literary Culture: From Revolution through Renaissance PS 243.B84 1986
• Eduardo Cadava, Emerson and the Climates of History PS1642.H5C33 1997
• Russ Castronovo, Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom PS 217 S55 C37 1995
• Michael Colacurcio, Doctrine and Difference: Essays in the Literature of New England PS 243 C65 1997
• Richard Drinnon, Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building E 98 .P99 D74
• Leslie Fiedler, Love and Death in the American Novel PS 374 L6 F5 1982
• Frances Smith Foster, Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Antebellum Slave Narratives, 2nd ed. PS 366 A35 F6 1994
• --, Written by Herself: Literary Production of Early African American Women Writers PS 153 N5 F68 1993
• Kris Fresonke, West of Emerson: The Design of Manifest Destiny PS 1642.W48F74 2003
• Jared Gardner, Master Plots: Race and the Founding of American Literature, 1787-1845 PS 208 G37 1998
• Michael Gilmore, The Middle Way: Puritanism and Ideology in American Romantic Fiction PS 377 G5
• Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism E179.5H69
• Gregory Jay, America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History PS25.J39 1990
• D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature PS 121 L3 1977
• Harry Levin, The Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville PS 1888 L4
• Robert Levine, Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity PS 366 A35 L48 1997
• R.W.B. Lewis, The American Adam PS 201 L4
• Lucy Maddox, Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs PS 173 .I6 M3 1991
• Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden E 169.1 M35
• F.O. Matthiessen, The American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman PS 201 M3
• Perry Miller, Nature's Nation
• Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark PS 173 N4 M67 1992
• Dana Nelson, The Word in Black and White: Reading "Race" in American Literature, 1638-1867 PS173.E8N45 1992
• Samuel Otter, Melville's Anatomies PS2388 B57 O88 1999
• Donald Pease, Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context PS 211 P38 1987
• Timothy Powell, Ruthless Democracy: A Multicultural Interpretation of the American Renaissance PS153.M56 P69 2000
• Russell Reising, The Unusable Past: Theory and the Study of American Literature PS 25 R44 1986
• David Reynolds, Beneath the American Renaissance PS 208 R49 1988
• Lora Romero, Home Fronts: Domesticity and Its Critics in the Antebellum United States PS 374 D57 R64 1997
• John Carlos Rowe, At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature PS 217 P64 R69 1997
• --, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II
• David Shumway, Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline PS 41 S48 1994
• Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land F 591 S65 1957
• Eric Sundquist, To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature PS 153 N5 S9 1993
• Jane Tompkins, Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 PS 374 S7 T66 1985
• Cheryl Walker, Indian Nation: Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms PS 153 I 52 W35 1997
• Eric Wertheimer, Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771-1876 PS 217 I47 W47 1999
• William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain E 169.1 W52 1956a
• Larzer Ziff, Literary Democracy: The Declaration of Cultural Independence in America PS 201 .Z5 1981

Major Collections of Critical Essays

• Sacvan Bercovitch and Myra Jehlen, eds., Ideology and Classic American Literature PS 217 P64 I36 1986
• Cathy Davidson and Michael Moon, eds., Subjects and Citizens PS 169 N35 S83 1995
• Sam Haynes and Christopher Morris, eds., Manifest Destiny and Empire: American Antebellum Expansionism E179.5M32 1997
• Helen Jaskoski, ed., Early Native American Writing: New Critical Essays PS 153 I52 E27 1996
• Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease, eds., Cultures of United States Imperialism E 179.5C96 1993
• Arnold Krupat, ed., New Voices in Native American Literary Criticism
• Walter Benn Michaels and Donald Pease, eds., The American Renaissance Reconsidered PE 1010 E53 n.s. no.9
• A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry Ward, eds., Redefining American Literary History PS 153 M56 R4 1990
• Henry Wonham, ed., Criticism and the Color Line: Desegregating American Literary Studies PS 153 N5 C78 1996

Other Works on Individual Authors: Not on Reserve

• Elizabeth Ammons, Critical Essays on Harriet Beecher Stowe PS 2597 .C68
• Michael Davitt Bell, Hawthorne and the Historical Romance of New England PS 1888.B39
• Sacvan Bercovitch, The Office of The Scarlet Letter PS 1868 .B935 1991
• Richard Brodhead, Hawthorne, Melville, and the Novel PS 1888 B7 1976
• John Bryant, ed., A Companion to Melville Studies PS 2386 C66 1986
• -- and Robert Milder, eds., Melville's Evermoving Dawn: Centennial Essays PS2387 M425 1997
• Michael Colacurcio, The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales PS 1892 H5 C6 1995
• Wai-Chee Dimock, Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism PS 2387 D55 1989
• Betsy Erkkila, Whitman the Political Poet PS 3242 .P64 E74 1989
• -- and Jay Grossman, eds., Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies PS 3238 B74 1996
• Marvin Fisher, Going Under: Melville's Short Fiction and the American 1850s PS 2387 F54
• H. Bruce Franklin, The Wake of the Gods: Melville's Mythology PS 2388 M9 F7
• Ezra Greenspan, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Walt Whitman
• C.L.R. James, Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In
• Myra Jehlen, ed., Herman Melville: A Collection of Critical Essays
• Carolyn Karcher, The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child HQ 1413 .C45 K37 1994
• --, Shadow over the Promised Land: Slavery, Race, and Violence in Melville's America PS 2388 P6 K37
• Robert Levine, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville PS 2387.C28 1998x
• Mason Lowance, Ellen Westbrook, and R.C. DeProspo, eds., The Stowe Debate: Rhetorical Strategies in Uncle Tom's Cabin PS 2954 U53 S76 1994
• Edward Haviland Miller, ed., A Century of Whitman Criticism PS 3238 M44 1969
• Perry Miller, The Raven and the Whale: Poe, Melville, and the New York Literary Scene PS 74 M5 1973
• John P. McWilliams, Hawthorne, Melville, and the American Character: A Looking-Glass Business PS 217 N38 M38 1984
• Ellen Moers, Harriet Beecher Stowe and American Literature PS 2956.M6
• Joel Myerson, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau PS 3054 C36 1995
• --, ed., Emerson's Antislavery Writings E449 E55 1995
• Christopher Newfield, The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America
• Roy Harvey Pearce, ed., Whitman: A Collection of Critical Essays PS 3238 P4
• David Reynolds, Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography PS 3231 R48 1995
• Michael Rogin, Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville PS 2388 P6 R63 1983
• Geoffrey Sanborn, The Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader
• William V. Spanos, The Errant Art of Moby-Dick: The Canon, the Cold War, and the Struggle for American Studies PS 2384 M62 S59 1995
• Eric Sundquist, ed., Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays
• Rafia Zafar and Deborah Garfield, eds., Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays E444 J17 H37 1996

ENGL 332: American Romanticism, Spring 2003
Created: 3/3/03 4:14 pm
Last modified: 3/4/03 1:21 pm
Click here for works on reserve for the Spring 2001 version of the course--some not listed here may be useful for this course.