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Drawing from the social theories of Niklas Luhmann and Mary Douglas, Predicting the Past advocates a reflexive understanding of the paradoxical institutional dynamic of American literary history as a professional discipline and field of study. Contrary to most disciplinary accounts, Michael Boyden resists the utopian impulse to offer supposedly definitive solutions for the legitimation crises besetting American literature studies by "going beyond" its inherited racist, classist, and sexist underpinnings. Approaching the existence of the American literary tradition as a typically modern problem generating diverse but functionally equivalent solutions, Boyden argues how its peculiarity does not, as is often supposed, reside in its restrictive exclusivity but rather in its massive inclusivity, which drives it to constantly revert to a self-negating "beyond" perspective. Predicting the Past covers a broad range of literary histories and reference works, from Rufus Griswold's 1847 Prose Writers of America to Sacvan Bercovitch's monumental Cambridge History of American Literature. Throughout, Boyden focuses on particular themes and topics illustrating the self-induced complexity of American literary history, such as the early "Anglocentric" roots theories of American literature; the debate on contemporary authors in the age of naturalism; the plurilingual ethnocentrism of the pioneer Americanists of the mid-twentieth century; and the genealogical misrepresentation of founding figures such as Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Lowell.

American literature --- Littérature américaine --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Histoire et critique --- Théorie, etc --- Academic collection --- 820 <09> --- 820 <73> --- Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van ... --- Amerikaanse literatuur --- 820 <73> Amerikaanse literatuur --- 820 <09> Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van ... --- Littérature américaine --- Théorie, etc --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van .. --- Théorie, etc. --- Engelse literatuur--Geschiedenis van --- Théorie, etc.

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Climate has infused the literary history of the United States, from the writings of explorers and conquerors, over early national celebrations of the American climate, to the flowering of romantic nature writing. This volume traces this complex semantic history in American thought and literature to examine rhetorical and philosophical discourses that continue to propel and constrain American climate perceptions today. It explores how American literature from its inception up until the present engages with the climate, both real and perceived. Climate and American Literature attends to the central place that the climate has historically occupied in virtually all aspects of American life, from public health and medicine, over the organization of the political system and the public sphere, to the culture of sensibility, aesthetics and literary culture. It details American inflections of climate perceptions over time to offer revealing new perspectives on one of the most pressing issues of our time.

American literature --- Climatic changes in literature --- Literature and society --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- History and criticism --- History --- Social aspects --- Climatic changes in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History.

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Cahan, Abraham, 1860-1951. The Rise of David Levinsky --- Liminaliteit --- Liminality --- Liminarité --- #KVHA:American studies --- #KVHA:Literaire kritiek; Amerika --- #KVHA:Migratie; Amerika --- #KVHA:Vertaalwetenschap --- #SBIB:39A6 --- #SBIB:314H252 --- #SBIB:94H0 --- #SBIB:97G --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Internationale migratie --- Geschiedenis van Europa: algemeen --- Geschiedenis van Noord-Amerika --- United States --- Emigration and immigration --- History --- 19th century --- 20th century --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Europe --- Gold, Michael --- Jews --- Migrations --- Transatlantic voyages

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Migration. Refugees --- History of Europe --- United States of America