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  • Titel: American Literature and the Academy : The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession
  • Enthält: Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Illustrations -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction -- -- Book One. Roots -- -- Chapter 1. Prelude: Origins of the CHAL -- -- Chapter 2. Organizing the CHAL Team -- -- Chapter 3. Preface to Volume I: Trailblazers in the Nationalist Era of Samuel Knapp -- -- Chapter 4. Rufus W. Griswold and the Collectors’ Marketplace -- -- Chapter 5. The Duyckincks among the Young Americans, the Knickerbockers, and Others -- -- Chapter 6. Moses Coit Tyler and the Rise of American Literary History -- -- Chapter 7. Charles F. Richardson and the Ferment of the Eighties -- -- Chapter 8. Barrett Wendell in a Turn-of-the-Century Harvest -- -- Chapter 9. The CHAL (Volume I) Appears -- -- Chapter 10. And Then Volume II -- -- Chapter 11. Interim: Some Insurgent Critics versus “the Professors” -- -- Chapter 12. The CHAL Completed -- -- Book Two. Growth -- -- Chapter 13. A New Era: The Profession Establishes a Political Voice -- -- Chapter 14. American Literature in the University: Study and Debate in the 1920s -- -- Chapter 15. The Reinterpretation of American Literature (1928): Professional Scholarship after the CHAL -- -- Chapter 16. American Literature (1929): The Profession Has a Journal -- -- Chapter 17. Parrington’s Main Currents in American Thought (1927–1930) -- -- Chapter 18. The Heirs of Parrington: Four Leftist Histories during the Great Depression -- -- Chapter 19. More Advocacy in the Thirties: Humanists, Agrarians, Freudians, and Nationalists -- -- Chapter 20. American Literature in the University: Curriculum, Graduate Research, and Controversy in the Thirties -- -- Chapter 21. Journals and Other Instruments of the New Scholarship -- -- Book Three. Maturity -- -- Chapter 22. The Profession Plans a New Literary History -- -- Chapter 23. The Cooperative History Goes Independent: Organization and Theory (1942–1943) -- -- Chapter 24. The Editors in Profile (1943) -- -- Chapter 25. Screening the Contributors – and Early Contributions (1943–1944) -- -- Chapter 26. American Literature and the Academy during World War II (1939–1945) -- -- Chapter 27. The LHUS: Shaping the Text (1945–1948) -- -- Chapter 28. Reception of the LHUS: Summary Estimate of the Profession -- -- Postwar Epilogue. New Directions in a Thriving Profession -- -- Appendix. Leaders of the American Literature Group (1921-1948) -- -- Notes -- -- Index
  • Beteiligte: Vanderbilt, Kermit [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986
  • Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource; 39 illus
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.9783/9781512819113
  • ISBN: 9781512819113
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  • Schlagwörter: College teachers United States ; Criticism United States History ; Literary historians United States ; Scholarly publishing United States History
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  • Anmerkungen: In English
    Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
  • Beschreibung: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Book One. Roots -- Chapter 1. Prelude: Origins of the CHAL -- Chapter 2. Organizing the CHAL Team -- Chapter 3. Preface to Volume I: Trailblazers in the Nationalist Era of Samuel Knapp -- Chapter 4. Rufus W. Griswold and the Collectors' Marketplace -- Chapter 5. The Duyckincks among the Young Americans, the Knickerbockers, and Others -- Chapter 6. Moses Coit Tyler and the Rise of American Literary History -- Chapter 7. Charles F. Richardson and the Ferment of the Eighties -- Chapter 8. Barrett Wendell in a Turn-of-the-Century Harvest -- Chapter 9. The CHAL (Volume I) Appears -- Chapter 10. And Then Volume II -- Chapter 11. Interim: Some Insurgent Critics versus "the Professors" -- Chapter 12. The CHAL Completed -- Book Two. Growth -- Chapter 13. A New Era: The Profession Establishes a Political Voice -- Chapter 14. American Literature in the University: Study and Debate in the 1920s -- Chapter 15. The Reinterpretation of American Literature (1928): Professional Scholarship after the CHAL -- Chapter 16. American Literature (1929): The Profession Has a Journal -- Chapter 17. Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought (1927-1930) -- Chapter 18. The Heirs of Parrington: Four Leftist Histories during the Great Depression -- Chapter 19. More Advocacy in the Thirties: Humanists, Agrarians, Freudians, and Nationalists -- Chapter 20. American Literature in the University: Curriculum, Graduate Research, and Controversy in the Thirties -- Chapter 21. Journals and Other Instruments of the New Scholarship -- Book Three. Maturity -- Chapter 22. The Profession Plans a New Literary History -- Chapter 23. The Cooperative History Goes Independent: Organization and Theory (1942-1943) -- Chapter 24. The Editors in Profile (1943) -- Chapter 25. Screening the Contributors - and Early Contributions (1943-1944) -- Chapter 26. American Literature and the Academy during World War II (1939-1945) -- Chapter 27. The LHUS: Shaping the Text (1945-1948) -- Chapter 28. Reception of the LHUS: Summary Estimate of the Profession -- Postwar Epilogue. New Directions in a Thriving Profession -- Appendix. Leaders of the American Literature Group (1921-1948) -- Notes -- Index