In the aftermath of America's centennial celebrations of 1876,
readers developed an appetite for chronicles of the nation's past.
Born amid this national vogue, the field of American literary
history was touted as the balm for numerous "ills"--from burgeoning
immigration to American anti-intellectualism to demanding
university administrators--and enjoyed immense popularity between
1880 and 1910.
In the first major analysis of the field's early decades,
Claudia Stokes offers important insights into the practices,
beliefs, and values that shaped the emerging discipline and have
continued to shape it for the last century. She considers
particular personalities--including Thomas Wentworth Higginson,
William Dean Howells, Brander Matthews, and Mark Twain--and
episodes that had a formative effect on American literary history
as a discipline. Reexamining the field's deep attachment to the
literature of antebellum New England, the periodization of the
nineteenth century, and the omission of Native narratives, Stokes
reveals the many forces, both inside and outside the academy, that
propelled the rise of American literary history and persist as
influences on the work of current practitioners of the field.
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