A New Literary History of America

America is a nation making itself up as it goes along. From the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science fiction, and hip hop, this book gives us a fresh, kaleidoscopic view of what Made in America means.

Zusammenfassung America is a nation making itself up as it goes along-a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In more than 200 original essays, this history brings together the nation's many voices. Visit www.newliteraryhistory.com for more information.

Autorentext
Edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors

Klappentext
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In more than 200 original essays, this history brings together the nation s many voices.

Zusammenfassung
America is a nation making itself up as it goes alongâa story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In more than 200 original essays, this history brings together the nationâ™s many voices.

Inhalt
Timeline Introduction Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors 1507 The name "America" appears on a map Toby Lester 1521, August 13 Mexico in America Kirsten Silva Gruesz 1536, July 24 Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca Ilan Stavans 1585 "Counterfeited according to the truth" Michael Gaudio 1607 Fear and love in the Virginia colony Adam Goodheart 1630 A city upon a hill Elizabeth Winthrop 1643 A nearer neighbor to the Indians Ted Widmer 1666, July 10 Anne Bradstreet Wai Chee Dimock 1670 The American jeremiad Emory Elliott 1670 The stamp of God's image Jason D. LaFountain 1673 The Jesuit relations Laurent Dubois 1683 Francis Daniel Pastorius Alfred L. Brophy 1692 The Salem witchcraft trials Susan Castillo 1693--94, March 4 Edward Taylor Werner Sollors 1700 Samuel Sewall, The Selling of Joseph David Blight 1722 Benjamin Franklin, The Silence Dogood Letters Joyce E. Chaplin 1740 The Great Awakening Joanne van der Woude 1740s, September 13-14 1814, Yankee Doodle goes to town; Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner 1765, December 23 Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur Leo Damrosch 1773, September Phillis Wheatley Rafia Zafar 1776 The Declaration of Independence Frank Kelleter 1784, June Charles Willson Peale Michael Leja 1787 James Madison, Notes of the Debates in the Federal Convention Mitchell Meltzer 1787--1790 John Adams, Discourses on Davila John Diggins 1791 Philip Freneau and The National Gazette Jefrey L. Pasley 1796 Washington's farewell address Francois Furstenberg 1798 Mary Rowlandson and the Alien and Sedition Acts Nancy Armstrong 1798 American gothic Marc Amfreville 1801, March 4 Jefferson's first inaugural address Jan Ellen Lewis 1804, January The matter of Haiti Kaiama Glover 1809 Cupola of the world Judith Richardson 1819 The Missouri crisis John Stauffer 1820, November 27 Landscape with birds Christoph Irmscher 1821 Sequoyah, the Cherokee syllabary Lisa Brooks 1821, June 30 Junius Brutus Booth Coppelia Kahn 1822 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the Ojibwe firefly, and Longfellow's Hiawatha David Treuer 1825, November Thomas Cole and the Hudson River Alan Wallach 1826, July 4 Songs of the republic Steve Erickson 1826 Cooper's Leatherstocking tales Richard Hutson 1826; 1927 Transnational poetry Stephen Burt 1827 Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon Terryl L. Givens 1828 David Walker, Appeal, in Four Articles Tommie Shelby 1830, May 21 Jump Jim Crow W. T. Lhamon, Jr. 1831, March 5 The Cherokee Nation decision

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