American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader Book

	A Note on the Text
	Introduction: What Is Method and Why Does It Matter?	1
Pt. 1	History and Literature in America	17
1	Domesticating Virtue: Coquettes and Revolutionaries in Young America	19
	Introduction
2	Vanishing Americans: Gender, Empire, and New Historicism	41
	Introduction
3	Seeing Sentiment: Photography, Race, and the Innocent Eye	63
	Introduction
4	The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill	95
	Introduction
Pt. 2	Reading "Culture"	125
5	Mass Culture/Popular Culture: Notes for a Humanist's Primer	127
	Introduction
6	Dancing for Eels at Catherine Market	150
	Introduction
7	AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signification	182
	Introduction
8	The Occult of True Black Womanhood	211
	Introduction
Pt. 3	Nationalism Reconsidered	241
9	The Mass Public and the Mass Subject	243
	Introduction
10	Traditional Narrative: Contemporary Uses, Historical Perspectives	264
	Introduction
11	The Stakes of Textual Border-Crossing: Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach in Sinocentric, Asian American, and Feminist Critical Practices	290
	Introduction
12	Americanization: What Are We Talking About?	318
	Introduction
	About the Contributors	339
	Index of Names	345