As I am getting closer to a finished version, I will revise the published parts of CHAPTERS continously online without noting. New entries will be identified in HERE.
I have adapted my chapters to the periods in The Cambridge History of American Literature, 8 vols.
Bercovitch, Sacvan, ed. The Cambridge History of American Literature. Harvard University, Massachusetts. 1994-2004
VOL i (1994)(No Title)1590-1820
VOL ii (1994)Prose Writing 1820-1865
VOL. iii (2005)Prose Writing 1860-1920
VOL iv (2004)Nineteenth-C Poetry1800-1910
VOL. v (1994)Poetry and Criticism 1900-1950
VOL vi (1994)Prose Writing1910-1950
VOL.vii (1994)Prose Writing1940-1990
VOL viii (1994)Poetry and Cricism 1940-1995
VOL i (1994) NO TITLE 1590-1820
1. The Papers of Empire 13 109
6. Traveling in America 126
3. Personal Narrative and History 205
6. Reason and Revivalism 279-306
2. What is enlightenment? Some american Answers 368
2. Magazines, criticism, and Essays 573
VOL ii (1995) PROSE WRITING 1820-1865
1- Beginnming of Professionalism 9-73
2. Women’s Fiction and the Literary Marketplace
1. Exploration and Empire 127-
3. The Lit of Slavery and AA Culture 239
2. The Assault on Locke 350-
IV. NARRATIVE FORMS: local 626, personal 661, literary 693,
crisis and National Narrative 735-77
VOL. iii (2005) PROSE WRITING 1860-1920
I. THE AMERICAN LITERARY FIELD 11-64 stratificaton of culture 11,
VOL vi (2002) PROSE WRITING 1910-1950
II FICTIONS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE (283-) Rafia Zafar
3. Ethnic Themes, Modern Themes 405
VOL vii (1999) PROSE WRITING 1940-1990
3. On and Off the Road: The Outsider as Young Rebel 165 [J:K]
IV POSTMODERN FICTIONS 1970-1990 (425-)
V: EMERGENT LITERATURES (541-675) Cyrus R. K.Patell
VOL viii covers poetry and criticism until 1995
This will save me longer period descriptions, and I can add to gaps in the Prose volumes.
Vols i, iii and vii can be downloaded from the net.
2025
March 16: Stephen Crane added to Chapter III
March 11: The chapter numbers will be revised to fit the CHAL periods for prose. Chapters I to VI.
March 11 Toomer and McKay join Chapter 6.
March 03 A Folklore Addition in 3&4.
Feb 24 Thoreau in 3&4
Feb 23 George Catlin entered Chapters 3 & 4. Thoreau coming up.
Feb 09 Lydia Maria Child added to Chapters 3 & 4 which will be fused in the final version into one.
Feb 08 Leonardo. Work on the Appendix.
Feb 07 Adding Vespucci and Leonardo for the Renaissance to Chapter 1. Reducing the chapter numbers to match CHAL and to abridge for the English version. More under Appendix.
Feb 03 I have added a section on Lacfadio Hearn in Chapter 5.
Jan 26 Adding H. James to Chapter 5. Rather long, I am afraid. And more to come.
Jan 23 Reorganizing chapters and adding
Jan 22 Adding to chapters 1-4, and cleaning up.
Jan 01 George Saunders in Chapter 8. Part of a longer section.
Dec 30 Appendix: Some Wallerstein clarifications of categories like CASE.
Dec 25 Grace Paley opens the Sixties in Chapter 6. Gertrude Stein to follow.
Dec 20 Mark Twain in Chapter 5.
Dec 16 I have added Poe to Chapter 4, and an introductory passage on "Romanticism" in 3. CLOSEUPS
will be deleted.
Dec 11 This is one of the longest section: Lydia Maria Child adding more realism to sketching in a new style and construction. Part of Chapter four.
Nov 24 More on Franklin and Willam Bartram. Together with C. Mather and Addison they will illustrate some of the changes in sketching between 1709 and 1880. Independence and resonance in England: Bartram influenced Wordsworth (his poetic sketches) and Coleridge (Kubla Khan, taken from Marco Polo).
Next week I will begin to divide chapters into separate pages on this homepage.
Nov 23 Adding B. Franklin to Chapter 2. Will add more tomorrow.
Nov 16 A New entry under "Chapters": Puritanism and Cotton Mather, forerunner of Poe.
Nov 09 I have deleted "Versions" and replaced "Chapters," containing more recent close-ups in chronological order. Two new entries in Chapter 3: Waverley as an intro to W. Irving, and a follower of Irving in the South, Swallow Barn, an early example of the plantation school. The older versions in Close-Ups will have to go soon.