American Literature and the Academy : : The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession / / Kermit Vanderbilt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Vanderbilt, Kermit,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (632 p.) :; 39 illus.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Ann...

Table of Contents

• 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