A highly productive year in William Faulkner scholarship includes an impressive new biography as well as a high-profile work of criticism for the trade market that examines the resonance of the Civil War in his writings. Several significant projects consider Faulkner in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement and the alt-right movement that have defined the poles of contemporary politics, and others apply new, innovative theoretical methods, demonstrating that almost any approach finds opportunity in a canon which continues to prove itself relevant to current events and modes of criticism.
The Library of America has issued African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song, ed. Kevin Young. For the period 1900–1950 the coverage of this volume includes many lesser-known poets in addition to more famous figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Separate volumes of selected poetry by Countee Cullen (2013) and Gwendolyn Brooks (2005) are already part of the Library of America program, and the works of some of the figures in this volume have also appeared in the two volumes of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century (2000). However, this new volume offers a much wider range of writers and would be useful in courses on African American poetry for the period covered by this chapter. The book is a welcome and timely addition to resources for teaching and scholarship. In Modernism’s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics ( Johns Hopkins) Ben Glaser responds to High Modernism’s rejection of meter. In his view “the disavowal of meter” turns out to be a “cover for modern poetry’s nostalgia for earlier metrical culture, anxiety about its marginality and limited readership, and dependence on literary criticism.” The impact of Victorian poetry is more prevalent than many modernist poets and critics recognized or admitted. In fact, “poets reevaluated the legacies of poetic culture and poetry as cultural capital
This year’s publications offer an eclectic range of scholarship on Herman Melville, including new work on sexuality and a new biography. The smaller number of articles and books published this year compared to 2019 has to be mentioned too; the current volume of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, for example, is some hundred pages shorter than its predecessor. Perhaps COVID-19 stymied the publication process. Certainly research agendas were upended and supply-chain disruptions made the printing of books more difficult and more costly. This survey begins with work that may be of special interest to teachers as well as researchers, then moves to essays and book chapters before concluding with the year’s two book publications on Melville and his world.
Research Article| September 01 2017 Late-19th-Century Literature Roark Mulligan Roark Mulligan Christopher Newport University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literary Scholarship (2017) 2015 (1): 219–234. https://doi.org/10.1215/00659142-3826165 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Roark Mulligan; Late-19th-Century Literature. American Literary Scholarship 1 September 2017; 2015 (1): 219–234. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00659142-3826165 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literary Scholarship Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2017 by Duke University Press2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Part Ii You do not currently have access to this content.
Research Article| September 01 2022 Hawthorne Karen Roggenkamp Karen Roggenkamp Texas A&M University—Commerce Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literary Scholarship (2022) 2020 (1): 27–36. https://doi.org/10.1215/00659142-9750594 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Karen Roggenkamp; Hawthorne. American Literary Scholarship 1 September 2022; 2020 (1): 27–36. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00659142-9750594 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literary Scholarship Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press2022 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Part I You do not currently have access to this content.
Research Article| September 01 2022 Faulkner David Davis David Davis Mercer University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literary Scholarship (2022) 2020 (1): 143–156. https://doi.org/10.1215/00659142-9580540 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David Davis; Faulkner. American Literary Scholarship 1 September 2022; 2020 (1): 143–156. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00659142-9580540 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literary Scholarship Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press2022 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Part I You do not currently have access to this content.
Research Article| September 01 2022 Melville Josh Doty Josh Doty St. Mary’s University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literary Scholarship (2022) 2020 (1): 37–45. https://doi.org/10.1215/00659142-9580498 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Josh Doty; Melville. American Literary Scholarship 1 September 2022; 2020 (1): 37–45. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00659142-9580498 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literary Scholarship Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press2022 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Part I You do not currently have access to this content.
During the past two years, scholarship on Ernest Hemingway has continued to outweigh scholarship on F. Scott Fitzgerald by a ratio of almost two to one. However, Fitzgerald's numbers are nearly equal in periodical scholarship for 2019-it is book-length studies that pull Hemingway far ahead. For both authors, scholarship trends include pointed and narrow biographical topics, ecocritical and global perspectives, and reconsiderations of the writers' views on war. Both authors are also inspiring excellent scholarship related to teaching and classroom techniques, and Freudian psychoanalysis appeared surprisingly frequently among 2019 publications. For Fitzgerald, in particular, scholarship over the past two years has emphasized textual editing, biographical revisions, and bringing together socioeconomic critiques with theoretical approaches such as ecocriticism. Over the same period, scholarship on Hemingway has highlighted war writing, trauma, race relations, archival reveals, and a rich range of comparisons with other authors.
Research Article| September 01 2013 Early-19th-Century Literature Michael L. Burduck Michael L. Burduck Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literary Scholarship (2013) 2011 (1): 239–262. https://doi.org/10.1215/00659142-2076876 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael L. Burduck; Early-19th-Century Literature. American Literary Scholarship 1 September 2013; 2011 (1): 239–262. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00659142-2076876 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literary Scholarship Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2013 Duke University Press2013 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Part Ii You do not currently have access to this content.
Research Article| September 01 2022 Whitman and Dickinson Stephanie M. Blalock; Stephanie M. Blalock University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lucy Biederman Lucy Biederman University of Chicago Laboratory Schools Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literary Scholarship (2022) 2020 (1): 47–73. https://doi.org/10.1215/00659142-9750608 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Stephanie M. Blalock, Lucy Biederman; Whitman and Dickinson. American Literary Scholarship 1 September 2022; 2020 (1): 47–73. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00659142-9750608 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literary Scholarship Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press2022 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Part I You do not currently have access to this content.
Research Article| September 01 2022 Pound and Eliot Archie Henderson; Archie Henderson Houston, Texas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Christopher McVey Christopher McVey Boston University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literary Scholarship (2022) 2020 (1): 123–141. https://doi.org/10.1215/00659142-9750622 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Archie Henderson, Christopher McVey; Pound and Eliot. American Literary Scholarship 1 September 2022; 2020 (1): 123–141. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00659142-9750622 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literary Scholarship Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2022 Duke University Press2022 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Part I You do not currently have access to this content.
One of the overarching themes in contemporary scholarship about this period is how one formulates identity, especially American identity, in a society of many narratives. The scholarship of the past year is rich with discussions of modernist writers wrestling with the fragmentation of a society disrupted by war and technology, and also of neglected or little-known authors and the place of their tales of the New Woman, immigrants, and various ethnics minorities in the larger national conversation. This multiplicity of voices makes our understanding that much richer and creates a greater network of narratives that both problematize and help to explain the constructs of American identity. Other topics include the Harlem Renaissance, with several collections looking at issues of passing, art, politics, and segregation, and the translation of literature into other forms, especially film. In both the silentand sound-film eras fiction has been invigorated by film language, and the film industry has come to rely on fiction for source material.
field of early American literature is our white Puritanism texts it in during field regularly transatlantic, trans-hemispheric, transpacific, and circum-Atlantic conversations, with purposeful inclusion of Caribbean, Canadian, Pacific coast, and Latin and South American texts.
