ENGL3020 - Module Reading List
Dr Jay Prosser
j.d.prosser@leeds.ac.uk
Set Texts
Henry Adams, 'The Dynamo and the Virgin' (1900), from The Education of Henry Adams (1907; 1917); available online, e.g. http://www.bartleby.com/159/25.html.
Also in The Heath anthology of American literature
Elizabeth Bishop, Poems (Random House, 2011)
Willa Cather, ‘Paul’s Case: A Study in Temperament’ (1905), from Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920); available online, e.g. http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/authors/Cather/Pauls-Case.htm
Don DeLillo, The body artist : a novel (London: Picador, 2002)
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (1930; London: Vintage, 1996)
Toni Morrison, Jazz (1992; London: Vintage, 2001)
Tim O’Brien, The things they carried (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1990)
Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933; London: Penguin, 2001)
9-11, dir. James Hanlon, Gedeon Naudet and Jules Naudet (2002)
SUGGESTED READING
This is a list of contextual and critical works that you should find helpful in deepening your understanding of the issues treated by the module, particularly when you write your essays. While further primary works by the authors selected for study are usually not listed, relevant items are in the library. The list is a set of suggestions only; it is not exhaustive. HD = High Demand collection.
GENERAL
Literature
C. W. E. Bigsby, A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 3 vols, 1982-1985)
Mutlu K. Blasing, American poetry : the rhetoric of its forms (New Haven: Yale UP, 1987)
Malcolm Bradbury, Modern American Novel (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2nd ed., 1992)
M. Bradbury & J. MacFarlane, eds., Modernism (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976)
Marcus Cunliffe, The Literature of the United States (Harmondsworth: Penguin, rev. ed., 1982). HD
Marcus Cunliffe, ed., American Literature Since 1900 (London: Sphere, 1975). HD
Peter Conn, The divided mind : ideology and imagination in America, 1898-1917 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983)
Wi Chee Dimock, Through other continents : American literature across deep time (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006.)
Henry Louis Gates, ed., Black Literature and Literary Theory (NY & London: Routledge, 1984)
Richard Gray, American Poetry of the twentieth Century (London: Longman, 1990) . HD
Hugh Kenner, A homemade world : the American modernist writers (NY: Knopf, 1975)
Brian McHale, Postmodernist Fiction (London: Methuen, 1987)
Stephen Matterson & Darryl Jones, Studying poetry (London: Hodder, 2000) . HD
Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1992)
Judith Newman, Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction (Routledge 2013).
Alicia S. Ostriker, Stealing the language : the emergence of women's poetry in America (London: Women's P, 1987)
Roy Harvey Pearce, The continuity of American poetry. (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1961)
Jay Prosser, ed., American fiction of the 1990s : reflections of history and culture (London: Routledge, 2008)
Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978 (London: Virago, 1980)
Adrienne Rich, Blood, bread and poetry : selected prose, 1979-1985 (London: Virago, 1986)
Adrienne Rich, What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (NY & London: Norton, 1993)
Bonnie Kime Scott, ed., The Gender of modernism : a critical anthology (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990)
Elaine Showalter, ed., The New feminist criticism : essays on women, literature, and theory (London: Virago, 1986)
Tony Tanner, The American mystery : American literature from Emerson to DeLillo (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000)
Culture and History
Michael Borshuk. Swinging the vernacular : jazz and African American modernist literature (New York ; London : Routledge, 2006.)
Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience (NY: Vintage, 1974)
Hugh Brogan, The Penguin History of the United States (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986) . HD
Christopher Brookeman, American culture and society since the 1930s (London: Methuen, 1984)
Judith Butler , Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge, 1990)
Carolyn Kinder Carr, Americans : paintings and photographs from the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, intro. by John Updike (London: National Gallery Publications, 2002). American portraiture .
Peter Carroll & David Noble, The free and the unfree : a new history of the United States (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992)
Carl Degler, Out of Our Past: The Forces that Shaped Modern America (1959; NY: Harper, 1984)
Erika Doss, Twentieth-century American art (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002)
Ann Douglas, Terrible honesty : mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (Basingstoke: Papermac, 1997)
Russell Duncan & Joseph Goddard, Contemporary America (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003)
John Hope Franklin, From slavery to freedom : a history of African Americans (6th ed., NY: Oxford UP, 1988)
Eugene Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (NY: Random House, 1974)
Mick Gidley, ed., Modern American culture : an introduction (London & NY: Longman, 1993). HD
Paul Gilroy, The black Atlantic : modernity and double consciousness (London: Verso, 1993)
Josephine G. Hendin, ed. A concise companion to postwar American literature and culture. Malden, Mass.; Oxford : Blackwell, 2004.
Marianne Hirsch , ed., The familial gaze (Dartmouth: U of New England P, 1999)
Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (NY: Norton, 1978)
William Leach, Land of desire : merchants, power, and the rise of a new American culture (NY: Vintage Books, 1993)
T. Jackson Lears, No place of grace : antimodernism and the transformation of American culture, 1880-1920 (NY: Pantheon, 1981)
Alan Levens, Walk on by : soundtrack of the century (London: HarperCollins, 2001). History of US popular song. Also on video, School of English library,
Henry Luce, 'The American Century,' The American century (17 Feb. 1941): 61-65. HD.
Lawrence Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness (NY & Oxford: Oxford UP, 1971)
Jeremy Mitchell & Richard Maidment, eds., The United States in the twentieth century : Culture (London: Hodder & Stoughton in association with the Open University, 1994)
G. E. Mowry, ed., The Twenties : Fords, flappers, & fanatics (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1963)
Stacey Michele Olster, The trash phenomenon : contemporary literature, popular culture, and the making of the American century (Athens, GA ; London : University of Georgia Press, 2003.)
Miles Orvell, The real thing : imitation and authenticity in American culture, 1880-1940 (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1989)
Donald E. Pease & Amy Kaplan, eds., Cultures of United States imperialism (Durham, NC & London: Duke UP, 1993)
Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt (eds). Postcolonial theory and the United States : race, ethnicity, and literature, (University Press of Mississippi, 2000.)
Warren Susman, Culture as history : the transformation of American society in the twentieth century (NY: Pantheon, 1985)
John F. Szwed, Crossovers : essays on race, music, and American culture. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005)
Douglas Tallack, Twentieth-century America : the intellectual and cultural context (London: Longman, 1991). HD
R. Wiebe, The Search for Order, (NY: Macmillan, 1967)
Globalisation
Arjun Appadurai (ed.), Globalization (Durham & London: Duke UP, 2000)
Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at large : cultural dimensions of globalization (Minneapolis & London: U Minnesota Press, 1996)
Mohammed A. Bamyeh, The ends of globalization (Minneapolis & London: U Minnesota Press, 2000)
Nestor Garcia Canclini, Consumers and citizens : globalization and multicultural conflicts (Minneapolis & London: U Minnesota Press, 2001)
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton UP, 2000)
Michael Denning, Culture in the age of three worlds (London: Verso, 2004)
Inderpal Grewal, Transnational America : feminisms, diasporas, neoliberalisms (Durham & London: Duke UP, 2005)
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard UP, 2000)
Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi (eds.), The cultures of globalization (Durham & London: Duke UP, 1998)
Anthony D. King, Culture, Globalization and the World System (Minneapolis & London: U Minnesota Press, 1997)
Walter D. Mignolo, Local histories/global designs : coloniality, subaltern knowledges, and border thinking (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton UP, 2000)
John Carlos Rowe (ed.), Post-nationalist American studies (Berkeley & London: U California Press, 2000)
Neil Smith, The endgame of globalization (London: Routledge, 2005)
Malcolm Waters, Globalization (London: Routledge, 2001)
Rob Wilson and Wimal Dissanayake (eds.), Global/local : cultural production and the transnational imaginary (Durham & London: Duke UP, 1996)
Poetry
Houston Baker, Modernism and the Harlem renaissance (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987)
Michael Bell, Literature, modernism and myth : belief and responsibility in the twentieth century (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997)Clive Bloom & Brian Docherty, eds., American poetry : the modernist ideal (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995)
Bonnie Costello. Shifting ground : reinventing landscape in modern American poetry Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2003.
Robert M. Crunden, Body & soul : the making of American Modernism (NY: Basic Books, 2000) . HDRainer Emig, Modernism in poetry : motivation, structures, and limits : (Harlow: Longman, 1996)
John J. Espey, Ezra Pound's "Mauberley" : a study in composition. : (London: Faber & Faber, 1955)
Paul Fussell, Poetic meter and poetic form (NY: McGraw Hill, 1965)
Albert Gelpi, A coherent splendor : the American poetic renaissance, 1910-1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1987)
Paul Giles, Hart Crane : the contexts of The bridge (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986)
Ed Larrissy, Reading twentieth-century poetry : the language of gender and objects (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990)
Michael Levenson, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Modernism (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999). There are also good volumes on Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman and other American poets in this series.
James Longenbach, Modern poetry after modernism (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1997)
Peter Nicholls, Modernisms: A Literary Guide (London: Macmillan, 1995)
Mary Oliver , A poetry handbook : A Prose Guide To Understanding and Writing Poetry (Harvest, 1994)
David Perkins, A History of Modern Poetry, 2 vols. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap P of Harvard UP, 1976 & 1987)
Marjorie Perloff, The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985)
Marjorie Perloff, Poetry on & off the page : essays for emergent occasions : (Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1998)
Neil Roberts, ed., A companion to twentieth-century poetry ( Oxford : Blackwell, 2001)
Sanford Schwartz, The matrix of modernism : Pound, Eliot, and early twentieth-century thought (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1985)
James Scully, ed., Modern poets on modern poetry (various edns.)Jon Silkin, The life of metrical and free verse in twentieth-century poetry (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997)
Helen Vendler, The given and the made : recent American poets (London: Faber & Faber, 1995)
Helen Vendler, Part of nature, part of us : modern American poets (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1980)
Helen Vendler, Soul says : on recent poetry (Cambridge, MA: Belknap P of Harvard UP, 1995)
Jean Wagner, Black poets of the United States : from Paul Laurence Dunbar to Langston Hughes : (Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 1973)
See also titles by Blasing, Gray, Matterson, Ostriker, Pearce, Rich, and Scott in the General Literature section above.
THEMES
Geographies
Michael Bradshaw, Regions and regionalism in the United States (Jackson, MS: UP of Mississippi, 1988)
Bill Bryson, The lost continent : travels in small town America (London: Abacus, 1998)
W. J. Cash, The Mind of the South (any edition)
Graham Clarke, ed., The American city : literary and cultural perspectives (London: Vision P, 1988)
Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (London: Verso, 1990).
James Duncan & Derek Gregory, eds., Writes of passage : reading travel writing (NY: Routledge, 1999)
Tim Flannery, The eternal frontier : an ecological history of North America and its peoples (London: Heinemann, 2001)
Raymond D. Gastil, Cultural regions of the United States (Seattle: U of Washington P, 1975)
Mick Gidley & Robert Lawson-Peebles, eds., Modern American landscapes (Amsterdam: VU UP, 1995). HD
Richard Gray, Writing the South : ideas of an American region (Cambridge & NY: Cambridge UP, 1986)
David Harvey, The New Imperialism (Oxford : Oxford UP, 2003)
Nathan Huggins, Voices from the Harlem Renaissance (NY: Oxford UP, 1971)
John A. Jakle & Keith A. Sculle, Fast food : roadside restaurants in the automobile age (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2000)
John A. Jakle & Keith A. Sculle, The gas station in America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994)
John A. Jakle & Keith A. Sculle, The motel in America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1996)
Caren Kaplan, Questions of travel : postmodern discourses of displacement (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1996)
Alexandra Ganser, Roads of her own : gendered space and mobility in American women's road narratives, 1970-2000 (Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2009)
Robert S. Lynd & Helen M. Lynd, Middletown : a study in American culture (NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1929). HD
Gregg Mitman, Reel nature : America's romance with wildlife on films (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1999)
Michael O’Brien, The idea of the American South, 1920-1941 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1979)
Diane Roberts, The myth of Aunt Jemima : representations of race and region (London: Routledge, 1994)
José David Saldívar, Border matters : remapping American cultural studies (Berkeley: U of California P, 1997)
Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory (NY: Knopf, 1995)
Krishna Sen, 'From the Global to the ‘Glocal’: Re-visioning the American Dream.' Studies in American literature 3 (2006): 153-164. School of English library
Janis P. Stout, The journey narrative in American literature : patterns and departures ( Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1983). HD
Emmanuel Todd, After the empire : the breakdown of the American order (London: Constable, 2003).
Robert Venturi et al , Learning from Las Vegas : the forgotten symbolism of architectural form (Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1977)
Gore Vidal, Perpetual war for perpetual peace : how we got to be so hated, causes of conflict in the last empire (Trowbridge: Clairview, 2002)
Memories
John Bodnar, Remaking America : public memory, commemoration, and patriotism in the twentieth century (Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1992)
Cathy Caruth (ed.), Trauma : explorations in memory (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins UP, 1995)
Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed experience : trauma, narrative, and history (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins UP, 1996)
Paul Connerton, How societies remember (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989)
Frederick Crews et al , The memory wars : Freud's Legacy in Dispute (London: Granta, 1997)
Paul de Man, 'Autobiography as De-Facement' in The rhetoric of romanticism (NY: Columbia UP, 1984)
Julia Epstein and Lori Hope Lefkovitz, eds., Shaping losses : cultural memory and the Holocaust (Urbana and Chicago: U of Illinois P, 2001)
Patricia Fara & Karalyn Patterson , eds., Memory (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998)
Shoshana Felman & Dori Laub, Testimony : crises of witnessing in literature, psychoanalysis, and history (NY: Routledge, 1992)
Paul John Eakin, Fictions in autobiography : studies in the art of self invention (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1985)
Norman G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust industry : reflections on the exploitation of Jewish suffering (London : Verso, 2000). HD
Jay Griffiths, Pip pip : a sideways look at time (London: Flamingo, 2000).
Maurice Halbwachs, On collective memory, Lewis A Coser ed. & trans. (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992)
Marianne Hirsch, Family frames : photography, narrative, and postmemory (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard UP, 1997)
Alison Landsberg, Prosthetic memory : the transformation of American remembrance in the age of mass culture (NY: Columbia UP, 2004).
Herbert Leibowitz, Fabricating lives : explorations in American autobiography (NY: New Directions, 1991) . HD
George Lipsitz, Time passages : collective memory and American popular culture (Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 2001)
David Lowenthal, The past is a foreign country (NY & Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985)
David Lowenthal, 'Past Time, Present Place: Landscape and Memory,' Geographical Review.. , vol. 65, no. 1 (Jan 1975)
Roger Luckhurst, 'Memory/Recovered Memory,' in Roger Luckhurst & Peter Marks , eds., Literature and the contemporary (Harlow: Longman, 1999). HD
Avishai Margalit, The Ethics of Memory (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2002)
Merrill D. Peterson, Lincoln in American memory (NY & Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994)
Nancy K. Miller and Jason Tougaw , eds., Extremities : trauma, testimony, and community (Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2002)
Toni Morrison, 'The Site of Memory,' in William Zinsser, ed., Inventing the truth : the art and craft of memoir (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998). HD
Peter Novick, The Holocaust and collective memory : the American experience (London : Bloomsbury, 2000) . HD
Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, editors. Getting a life : everyday uses of autobiography. (Minneapolis; London: University of Minnesota, 1996.)
Art Spiegelman, 'Mein Kampf (My Struggle),' in The familial gaze ed. Marianne Hirsch (Darthmouth: U of New England P, 1999): 99-102
Marita Sturken, 'The Image as Memorial: Personal Photographs in Cultural Memory,' in The familial gaze, ed. Marianne Hirsch (Dartmouth: U of New England P, 1999): 178-193.
Mike Wallace, Mickey Mouse history and other essays on American memory (Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1996). HD
Binjamin Wilkomirski, Fragments : memories of a childhood, 1939-1948, trans. Carol Brown Janeway (London: Picador, 1997): HD
Also see the special issues of The Journal of American history. devoted to memory in American culture: vol. 75 no. 4 (March 1989) and vol. 85, no. 2 (1998)
Technologies
Jonathan Arac, ed., Postmodernism and politics (Manchester: Manchester UP, 1986)
Tim Armstrong, Modernism, technology, and the body : a cultural study (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998)
Benjamin R. Barber, Jihad vs McWorld (1995; NY: Ballantine, 2001).
David Bell & Barbara Kennesy, The cybercultures reader (NY & London: Routledge, 2000)
Jean Baudrillard, The consumer society : myths and structures (London : SAGE, 1998)
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and simulation, trans. Sheila Faria Glaser (Ann Arbor : Michigan UP, 1994)
Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid modernity (Cambridge: Polity, 2000). HD
Lauren Berlant ed, Intimacy : A Special Issue (University of Chicago Press, 2001)
Geoffrey Batchen, Mick Gidley, Nancy K. Miller and Jay Prosser, eds., Picturing atrocity : photography in crisis (Reaktion, 2012)
Mike Davis, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (London: Picador, 1999)
Siegfried Giedion, Mechanization Takes Command (Oxford & NY: Oxford UP, 1948)
Donna Harraway, 'Manifesto For Cyborgs,' in Linda Nicholson, ed., Feminism/Postmodernism (NY: Routledge, 1990)
Robert Hughes, The shock of the new : art and the century of change (London: Thames & Hudson, 1991).
Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism (London: Verso, 1991)
Barbara Johnson, Persons and things (Harvard UP, 2008)
Charles Johnson, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (NY: Henry Holt, 2000).
Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (London : Flamingo, 2000). HD
Naomi Klein, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate (London: Flamingo, 2002).
Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden (NY: Oxford UP, 1964).
Jeffery Meikle, Twentieth century limited : industrial design in America, 1925-1939 (Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1979)
James Meller, ed., The Buckminster Fuller reader (Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1972)
Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilisation (1934) and other works
David E. Nye, American technological sublime (Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1994)
David E. Nye, Narratives and Spaces (Exeter: U of Exeter P, 1997)
David Nye, America as second creation : technology and narratives of new beginnings (Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 2003)
Sadie Plant, Zeros + ones : digital women + the new technoculture (London: Fourth Estate, 1997)
Harold Rosenberg, The Tradition of the New (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1959)
George Ritzer, The McDonaldization of Society (College Park: U of Maryland P, 2000) . HD
Elaine Scarry, The body in pain : the making and unmaking of the world (Oxford University Press, 1985)
___________ On beauty and being just (Princeton UP, 1999)
Nicholas Roeg, Dir. The man who fell to earth (1976Criterion DVD, 2007)
Merrill Schleier, The skyscraper in American art, 1890-1931 (reprint NY: Da Capo, 1986)
Cecelia Tichi, Shifting gears : technology, literature, culture in modernist America (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1989)
Richard Wilson, D. H. Pilgrim & Dickran Tashjian, The machine age in America, 1918-1941 (NY: Brooklyn Museum/Abrams, 1986)
The Photography and Atrocity Project www.photographyandatrocity.org
TEXTS
‘Paul’s Case’
‘Paul’s Case’ may be read on the module website. http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/authors/Cather/Pauls-Case.htm
Judith Butler, '‘Dangerous Crossing’: Willa Cather's Masculine Names,' in Butler, Bodies that matter : on the discursive limits of "sex" (London: Routledge, 1993)
Judith Fryer, Felicitous space : the imaginative structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1986)
Hermione Lee, Willa Cather : a life saved up (London: Virago, 1989)
Sharon O'Brien, Willa Cather : the emerging voice (NY & Oxford: Oxford UP, 1987)
Susan J. Rosowski, The voyage perilous : Willa Cather's romanticism (Lincoln & London: U of Nebraska P, 1986)
Jonathan Goldberg, Willa Cather and others (Durham & London: Duke UP, 2001)
Marilee Lindemann, Cambridge Companion to Willa Cather
As I Lay Dying
André Bleikasten, Faulkner's 'As I lay dying' (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1973)
Cleanth Brooks, William Faulkner : the Yoknapatawpha country. (New Haven: Yale UP, 1963)
Richard Gray, The Life of William Faulkner (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994)
Myra Jehlen, Class and character in Faulkner's South (NY: Columbia UP, 1976)
John T. Matthews, ' As I Lay Dying in the Machine Age ,' Boundary 2 Vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring 1992), 69-94.
Olga Vickery, The novels of William Faulkner : a critical interpretation. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1964)
R. P. Warren, ed., Faulkner : a collection of critical essays (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966)
Philip M. Weinstein, ed., Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995)
Joel Williamson, William Faulkner and southern history (NY: Oxford UP, 1993)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Adrianna Cavarero, Relating narratives : storytelling and selfhood (London and NY: Routledge, 2000)
Janet Hobhouse, Everybody who was anybody : a biography of Gertrude Stein (NY: Putnam, 1975)
Herbert Leibowitz, '’Principled Hedonism’: Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, ' in Fabricating lives : explorations in American autobiography (NY: New Directions, 1991)
Anna Linzie, The True Story of Alice B. Toklas: A Study of Three Autobiographies (U of Iowa P, 2006). On Google Books
Janet Malcolm, Two lives : Gertrude and Alice (Yale UP, 2008)
Shirley Neuman & Ira B. Nadel, eds., Gertrude Stein and the making of literature (Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1988)
Gertrude Stein, Everybody's autobiography (1937; London, Virago, 1985)
Gertrude Stein, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, with two shorter stories (NY: Something Else P, 1972)
Wendy Steiner, Exact Resemblance to Exact Resemblance: The Literary Portraiture of Gertrude Stein (New Haven: Yale UP, 1978). HD
Alice B. Toklas, What is remembered (London: Joseph, 1963)
See also the works on autobiography in the Memory section above.
Elizabeth Bishop
Angus Cleghorn, Bethany Hicok, and Thomas Travisanom eds., Elizabeth Bishop in the twenty-first century : reading the new editions (Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012) Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, eds., Elizabeth Bishop : poet of the periphery (Newcastle upon Tyne : Bloodaxe, 2001) Anne Stevenson, Five looks at Elizabeth Bishop (London : Bellew, 1998) Susan McCabe, Elizabeth Bishop : her poetics of loss (University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994) Brett C. Millier, Elizabeth Bishop : life and the memory of it (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993) Marilyn May Lombardi, ed., Elizabeth Bishop : the geography of gender (Charlottesville ; London : University Press of Virginia, 1993) Bonnie Costello, Elizabeth Bishop : questions of mastery (Cambridge, Mass ; London : Harvard University Press, 1993) Lorrie Goldensohn, Elizabeth Bishop : the biography of a poetry (New York : Columbia University Press, c1992) Lloyd Schwartz and Sybil P. Estess eds., Elizabeth Bishop and her art (Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1983) Thomas J. Travisano, Elizabeth Bishop : her artistic development (Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1988) Jay Prosser, 'Elizabeth Bishop's Brazil ,' in Prosser, Light in the dark room : photography and loss (Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 2004)The Things They Carried
David L. Anderson, The Vietnam War (Palgrave MacMillan, 2005)
Philip D. Bielder, American literature and the experience of Vietnam (University of Georgia Press, 1982)
Cathy Caruth (ed.), Trauma : explorations in memory (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins UP, 1995)
Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed experience : trauma, narrative, and history (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins UP, 1996)
Philip K. Jason, Fourteen landing zones : approaches to Vietnam war literature (University of Iowa Press, 1991)
Mats Tegmark, In the shoes of a soldier : communication in Tim O'Brien's Vietnam narratives (Uppsala: Uppsala U, 1998)
Jazz
Houston J. Baker, Modernism and the Harlem renaissance (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987)
Maria Balshaw, Looking for Harlem : urban aesthetics in African American literature ( London : Pluto Press, 2000 )
Harold Bloom, ed., Toni Morrison (NY: Chelsea House, 1990)
Trudier Harris, Fiction and folklore : the novels of Toni Morrison (Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1991)
Jill Matus, Toni Morrison (Manchester: Manchester UP, 1998). HD
Toni Morrison, 'The Site of Memory,' in William Zinsser, ed., Inventing the truth : the art and craft of memoir (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998). HD
Linden Peach, ed., Toni Morrison (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995)
Justine Tally, Toni Morrison's (Hi)stories and Truths (Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 1999)
Danille Taylor-Guthrie, ed., Conversations with Toni Morrison (Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1994). HD
Andrew Warnes, ‘In the Shadow of the Gun: African American Fiction and the Anxieties of Nostalgia,’ in American fiction of the 1990s : reflections of history and culture, ed. Jay Prosser (London: Routledge, 2008), 76-88
Cary D. Wintz, ed . Black writers interpret the Harlem Renaissance ( NY: Garland, 1996)
'The Dynamo and the Virgin'
The 'Dynamo and the Virgin' chapter of Henry Adams’s The education of Henry Adams may be read on the module website.
The explanatory notes that accompany most published textual versions of the autobiography are useful.
Clive Bush, Halfway to revolution : investigation and crisis in the work of Henry Adams, William James and Gertrude Stein William James and Gertrude Stein (New Haven & London: Yale UP, 1991)
J. C. Levenson, ed., The letters of Henry Adams (Cambridge, MA: Belknap P of Harvard UP, 1982-88)
Sanford Pinsker, ‘Henry Adams at Ground Zero’, The Virginia quarterly review.; Charlottesville; Spring 2002; 78: 2, 189-198.
John Carlos Rowe, ed., New essays on the education of Henry Adams (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996)
Angels in AmericaLeo Bersani, Homos (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1995)
Per Brask, ed., Essays on Kushner's Angels (NY: Blizzard Publishing, 1995)
Denis Flannery, ' Engines and instruments : the cyborg parallels of Angels in America ,' Irish Journal of American Studies 11-12 (2002-03): 101-117. School of English Library.
Deborah R. Geiss & Steven F. Kruger, eds., Approaching the millennium : essays on Angels in America (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1997). See, especially, essays by Cadden, Harries, Frantzen and Miller.
Tony Kushner, Angels in America : a gay fantasia on national themes (London: Nick Hern Books, 1994)
Tony Kushner, Thinking about the longstanding problems of virtue and happiness : essays, a play, two poems and a prayer (London: Nick Hern Books, 1995)
Larry Kramer, Reports from the holocaust : the making of an AIDS activist t (London: St Martin's Press, 1998)
Steven Kruger, AIDS narratives : gender and sexuality, fiction and science (New York: Garland, 1996)
Judith Laurence Pastore (ed.), Confronting AIDS through literature : the responsibilities of representation (Urbana : Illinois UP, 1993)
Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic (London: Penguin, 1987)
Susan Sontag, Illness as metaphor, and Aids and its metaphors (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991)
Videorecording and DVDs: Angels in America, Parts 1 and 2, dir Mike Nicholls (2004). HD.
9/11
Giovanna Borradori, Philosophy in a time of terror : dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida (Chicago & London: U Chicago Press, 2003)
Judith Butler, Precarious life : the powers of mourning and violence (London: Verso, 2004)
Noam Chomsky, Power and terror : post 9-11 talks and interviews (New York: Seven Stories, 2003)
Noam Chomsky, 9-11 (NY: Seven Stories P, 2001)
Mary L. Dudziak (ed.), September 11 in history : a watershed moment? (Durham & London: Duke UP, 2003)
Stanley Hauwerwas and Frank Lentricchia, (eds), Dissent from the homeland : essays after September 11 (Durham: Duke UP, 2003).
Reuters Limited, September 11 : a testimony. (New York: Reuters, 2001). Photos
Phil Scraton (ed.), Beyond September 11 : an anthology of dissent (London: Pluto, 2002). HD
Sharon R. Sherman, Documenting ourselves : film, video, and culture (Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1998)
Peter Van Der Veer and Shoma Munshi (eds.), Media, war, and terrorism : responses from the Middle East and Asia (London : Routledge, 2004) ,
Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2003)
Art Spiegelman, In the shadow of no towers (Pantheon: September 2004).
Fahrenheit 9/11, dir., Michael Moore (Miramax, 2004)
Brian Winston Claiming the real : the Griersonian documentary and its legitimations ( London: BFI, 1995)
Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the desert of the real! : five essays on September 11 and related dates (London:Verso, 2002) HD
The Body Artist
Jean Baudrillard, America, trans. Chris Turner (London: Verso, 1988)
Jean Baudrillard, Selected writings (Cambridge: Polity, 1988)
Peter Boxall. Don DeLillo : the possibility of fiction, (London: Routledge, 2006.)
Sigmund Freud, "The Uncanny" in The Norton anthology of theory and criticism ( Norton, 2001)
Hal Foster, ed., Postmodern culture (London: Pluto, 1985)
Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism (London: Verso, 1991)
Tom LeClair, In the loop : Don DeLillo and the systems novel (Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 1987) . HD
Frank Lentricchia, ed., Introducing Don DeLillo (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1991)
Jean-François Lyotard, The postmodern condition : a report on knowledge (Manchester: Manchester UP, 1984)
Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967) .
This list was last updated on 22/02/2013