Selected Secondary Texts

[Asterisks indicate books selected by at least five Americanists.]

*Sacvan Berkovitch, Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America

James Breslin, From Modern to Contemporary American Poetry, 1945-1965
            Reviewed by Bryan Farrow

Gillian Brown, Domestic Individualism: Imaging Self in Nineteenth-Century America

*Hazel Carby, Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

Barry Chabot, Writers for the Nation: American Literary Modernism
            Reviewed by Christian Walker

Malcolm Cowley, Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

Michael Denning, Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America
            Reviewed by Craig Warren

Ann Douglas, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s

Judith Fetterley, The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction
            Reviewed by Stewart Tucker & Heather Randolph

Stephen Fjellman, Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America
            Reviewed by Matthew Gibson

Henry Louis Gates, Jr, The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism

Alfred Habegger, Gender, Fantasy and Realism in American Literature

Susan Howe, The Birth Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History
            Reviewed by Mendy Gladden

George Hutchinson, Harlem Renaissance

Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture
            Reviewed by Laura Heinrich

*Amy Kaplan, The Social Construction of American Realism

*Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease, Cultures of U.S. Imperialism

Alfred Kazin, An American Procession
            Reviewed by Brooks Moriarty

Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era

Walter Benn Michaels, Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism
            Reviewed by Ben Lee

Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
            Reviewed by Jenni Grant

Miles Orvell, The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940
            Reviewed by Heather Ferngren

Roy Harvey Pearce, The Continuity of American Poetry
            Reviewed by Laura Wells

Margery Perloff, Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition

Donald Pizer, Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
            Reviewed by Elizabeth Phillips

David E. Shi, Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture

Robert Stepto, From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative
            Reviewed by Kim Moore

*Eric Sundquist, To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature
            Reviewed by Daryl Alston

Tony Tanner, The Reign of Wonder: Naivety and Reality in American Literature

*Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture & Society in the Gilded Age

Hyatt H. Waggoner, American Poets: From the Puritans to the Present Day
            Reviewed by Caitlin Finlayson

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