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Crossing the Atlantic in Early American Literary Studies

Crossing the Atlantic in Early American Literary Studies Reviews Roundtable Teaching the Literatures of Early America. Ed. Carla Mulford. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1999. Crossing the Atlantic in Early American Literary Studies Vincent Carretta The very welcome publication of Teaching the Literatures of Early America is yet another indication of the success that Carla Mulford and her fellow edi- tors of The Heath Anthology of American Literature have had during the last decade in reconceptualizing early American literary studies to include voices and places previously ignored. In Teaching Mulford and twenty-two other contributors demonstrate why early American studies has become a vibrant yet increasingly undefinable and unmanageable field under the beneficent influence of recent trends in lit- erary criticism and scholarly interest, especially feminism, historicism, and cultural studies. After Mulford’s brief introduction, Teaching is divided into three parts: “Issues, Themes, Methods,” “Selected Courses,” and “Resources.” Part 1 has subdivisions. In the first, “Beyond the Boundaries of the Ameri- cas,” James Ruppert discusses Native American materials; Amy E. Winans, African American texts; Sharon M. Harris, writings by women; Pattie Cow- ell, multiculturalism; and Mulford, colonialism. E. Thomson Shields Jr. and Dana D. Nelson together treat colonial Spanish writings, and Rosalie Murphy Baum discusses French colonial http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pedagogy Duke University Press

Crossing the Atlantic in Early American Literary Studies

Carretta, Vincent
Pedagogy , Volume 2 (2) – Apr 1, 2002
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Reviews Roundtable Teaching the Literatures of Early America. Ed. Carla Mulford. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1999. Crossing the Atlantic in Early American Literary Studies Vincent Carretta The very welcome publication of Teaching the Literatures of Early America is yet another indication of the success that Carla Mulford and her fellow edi- tors of The Heath Anthology of American Literature have had during the last decade in reconceptualizing early American literary studies to include voices and places previously ignored. In Teaching Mulford and twenty-two other contributors demonstrate why early American studies has become a vibrant yet increasingly undefinable and unmanageable field under the beneficent influence of recent trends in lit- erary criticism and scholarly interest, especially feminism, historicism, and cultural studies. After Mulford’s brief introduction, Teaching is divided into three parts: “Issues, Themes, Methods,” “Selected Courses,” and “Resources.” Part 1 has subdivisions. In the first, “Beyond the Boundaries of the Ameri- cas,” James Ruppert discusses Native American materials; Amy E. Winans, African American texts; Sharon M. Harris, writings by women; Pattie Cow- ell, multiculturalism; and Mulford, colonialism. E. Thomson Shields Jr. and Dana D. Nelson together treat colonial Spanish writings, and Rosalie Murphy Baum discusses French colonial

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