This expansive Companion offers a set of fresh perspectives on the wealth of texts produced in and around what is now the United States.

• Highlights the diverse voices that constitute American literature, embracing oral traditions, slave narratives, regional writing, literature of the environment, and more
• Demonstrates that American literature was multicultural before Europeans arrived on the continent, and even more so thereafter
• Offers three distinct paradigms for thinking about American literature, focusing on: genealogies of American literary study; writers and issues; and contemporary theories and practices
• Enables students and researchers to generate richer, more varied and more comprehensive readings of American literature

About the Author

Paul Lauter is Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature Emeritus at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He has served as President of the American Studies Association (of the United States), and he is General Editor of the groundbreaking Heath Anthology of American Literature, now in its seventh edition.

Reviews
"I believe this book is well worth dipping into. It is, I suggest, a volume of solid scholarship that should have a significant impact in what is already a quite crowded publishing area. It is highly recommended, if only for the reason that-as Lauter explains-'the literatures of this America illuminate as nothing else has done the aspirations, the contradictions, the dangers and possibilities of this society'" (M/C Reviews, November 2010)



Book Information
ISBN 9781119685654
Author Paul Lauter
Format Paperback
Page Count 704
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 975g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 168mm * 31mm