American Romanticism Readings on Reserve, Spring 2006

I have put quite a few works on reserve at Reed Library. Please be aware that some of the following works had to be ordered, 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 for a link to the on-line catalog.

To get one of these books, go to the Circulation Desk, find the black binder marked S-Z, look up my name and course # in the binder, find the book and call # you want, and ask the attendant to get it for you (sorry, you can only take one at a time). You'll need to bring your SUNY Card to check the book out; it can't leave the library, unless you get it at the very end of the day (in which case you have to bring it back first thing in the morning or face steep fines). Please be considerate of others who may need to use the book, and return it promptly to the desk after you are done using it.

A. Contemporary References

• Robert Abrams, Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature
• Jonathan Arac, The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860
• Renee Bergland, The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and American Subjects
• Stephen Best, The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession
• Anna Brickhouse, Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere
• Russ Castronovo, Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and Freedom
• Cathy Davidson and Michael Moon, eds., Subjects and Citizens
• Mike Davis, Reading the Text That Isn't There: Paranoia in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
• Amy Greenberg, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire
• Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America
• Sam Haynes and Christopher Morris, eds., Manifest Destiny and Empire: American Antebellum Expansionism
• Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color
• Helen Jaskoski, ed., Early Native American Writing: New Critical Essays
• Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease, eds., Cultures of United States Imperialism
• Robert S. Levine, Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity
• Lucy Maddox, Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs
• Dana Nelson, The Word in Black and White
• Timothy Powell , Ruthless Democracy: A Multicultural Interpretation of the American Renaissance
• Lora Romero, Home Fronts: Domesticity and Its Critics in the Antebellum United States
• John Carlos Rowe, At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature
• Eric Sundquist, To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature
• Cheryl Walker, Indian Nation: Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms
• Henry Wonham, ed., Criticism and the Color Line: Desegregating American Literary Studies

B. Classic References

• William Andrews, To Tell a Free Story
• Sacvan Bercovitch, The Rites of Assent
• -- and Myra Jehlen, eds., Ideology and Classic American Literature
• Lawrence Buell, New England Literary Culture: From Revolution through Renaissance
• Richard Drinnon, Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building
• Frances Smith Foster, Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Antebellum Slave Narratives (2nd ed.)
• Michael Gilmore, American Romanticism and the Marketplace
• Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism
• D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature
• Harry Levin, The Power of Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville
• R.W.B. Lewis, The American Adam
• Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden
• F.O. Matthiessen, The American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
• Walter Benn Michaels and Donald Pease, eds., The American Renaissance Reconsidered
• Perry Miller, Nature's Nation
• Donald Pease, Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context
• David Reynolds, Beneath the American Renaissance
• A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry Ward, eds., Redefining American Literary History
• Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land
• Jane Tompkins, Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860
• William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain

ENGL 332: American Romanticism, Spring 2006
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Last modified: 2/15/06 9:54 pm
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