Selected Bibliography 2000-2005  

Benstock, Shari, Suzanne Ferriss, and Susanne Woods. A Handbook of Literary Feminisms. NY: Oxford UP, 2002.

Carroll, Joseph. Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature. NY: Routledge, 2004.

Fetterley, Judith, and Marjorie Pryse. Writing Out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture. Urbana: U of Illinois P 2003

Katanski, Amelia V. Learning to Write 'Indian': The Boarding-School Experience and American Indian Literature. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2005.

Lutz, Tom. Cosmopolitan Vistas: American Regionalism and Literary Value. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2004.

Pulitano, Elvira. Toward a Native American Critical Theory. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2003.

San Juan, E., Jr., and Barbara Harlow. Working through the Contradictions: From Cultural Theory to Critical Practice. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2004.

Spikes, Michael P. Contemporary American Literary Theory. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2003.

Tanselle, G. Thomas. Textual Criticism since Greg: A Chronicle, 1950-2000. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2005.

Tyson, Lois. Learning for a Diverse World: Using Critical Theory to Read and Write about Literature. NY: Routledge, 2001.

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Brown, Matthew P. The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals and Book Culture in Early New England. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2007.

Cohn, Jesse S. Anarchism and the Crisis of Representation: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Politics. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna UP, 2006.

Jackson, Leon. The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2008.

Justice, Daniel H. Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2006.

Lowney, John. History, Memory, and the Literary Left: Modern American Poetry, 1935-1968. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2006.

MacFarlane, Scott. The Hippie Narrative: A Literary Perspective on the Counterculture. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.

McGann, Jerome J. The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.

Mintz, Susannah B. Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2007.

Muthyala, John. Reworlding America: Myth, History, and Narrative. Athens: Ohio UP,, 2006.

Pfitzer, Gregory M. Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840-1920. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2008.

Polk, Noel. Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2008.

Sánchez, María C. Reforming the World: Social Activism and the Problem of Fiction in Nineteenth-Century America. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2008.

Schweighauser, Philipp. The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2006.

Sharman, Adam.Tradition and Modernity in Spanish American Literature: From Darío to Carpentier. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Stokes, Claudia. Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875-1910. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2006.

Tawil, Ezra F. The Making of Racial Sentiment: Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance. NY: Cambridge UP, 2006.

Temple, Christel N. Literary Spaces: Introduction to Comparative Black Literature. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic, 2007.

Wallach, Jennifer J. Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact: Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2008.

Young, John K. Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2006.

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Brownson, Charles. The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014.

Schultz, Kathy L. The Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History: Tolson, Hughes, Baraka. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Shaffer, Andrew. Literary Rogues: A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors. NY: Harper Perennial, 2013.

Underwood, Doug. The Undeclared War between Journalism and Fiction: Journalists as Genre Benders in Literary History. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Gura, Philip F. Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013.

West, James L. W., III. Making the Archives Talk: New and Selected Essays in Bibliography, Editing and Book History. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2012.

Goodman, Susan. Republic of Words: The Atlantic Monthly and Its Writers, 1857-1925. Hanover, NH: UP of New England, 2011.

Nunes, Ana. African American Women Writers' Historical Fiction. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

McDonald, Kathlene. Feminism, the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2012.

Penner, James. Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2011.

Romero, Channette. Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2012.

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