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Producing American Literature Producing American Literature Teaching the American Literary Tradi1on June 19, 2014 • Eric Lupfer Thomas Jefferson School Yearbook Staff, St. Louis, MO, April 1993. Literature: Texas Treasures (American Literature). Columbus, OH: Glencoe/ McGraw Hill, 2011. Challenge of Teaching ELA • To help students imagine the life, meanings, and significance that their texts have had over Dme. • To pry the texts out of the textbook. Goals of this PresentaDon • Examine how American literature is produced. • Suggest possible teaching approaches and assignment ideas. • Review online resources offering access to historical newspapers and magazines, literary archives, and other teachable resources – all related to the producDon of American literature. Producing American Literature • What happens between writer and reader? • Who is involved? • How do their acDons shape a text’s meaning and value? Example #1: Book publishers “Walden,” Literature: Texas Treasures (American Literature). Columbus, OH: Glencoe/McGraw Hill, 2011. Henry David Thoreau, Walden. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. Title page. Henry David Thoreau, Walden. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. Map. Henry David Thoreau, Walden. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. AdverXsement for Walden. New-York Daily Tribune, August 9, 1854. Cover. Henry David Thoreau, Walden, edited by Francis Allen. Riverside Literature Series. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910. Francis Allen, “Preface.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden, edited by Francis Allen. Riverside Literature Series. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910. Francis Allen, “Thoreau and His Book Walden.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden, edited by Francis Allen. Riverside Literature Series. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910. Charles Swain Thomas, “SuggesXve QuesXons and Comments.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden, edited by Francis Allen. Riverside Literature Series. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910. Student annotaXon of Henry David Thoreau, Walden, edited by Francis Allen. Riverside Literature Series. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910. HDT, Walden. New York: EdiXons for the Armed Services, [1945]. Opening pages of HDT, Walden. New York: EdiXons for the Armed Services, [1945]. HDT, Walden and Other WriBngs of Henry David Thoreau. Modern Library. Random House: New York, 1950. HDT, Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. Collier Books. MacMillan: New York, 1962. HDT, ReflecBons at Walden. Ed Peter Seymour. Hallmark EdiXons. Hallmark Cards: New York, 1968. Title page. HDT, ReflecBons at Walden. Ed Peter Seymour. Hallmark EdiXons. Hallmark Cards: New York, 1968. HDT, “My Prayer.” HDT, ReflecBons at Walden. Ed Peter Seymour. Hallmark EdiXons. Hallmark Cards: New York, 1968. HDT, Walden and Civil Disobedience. Penguin Books: New York, 1986. HDT, Walden. Oxford University Press: New York, 1997. HDT, Walden. Beacon Press: Boston, 1997. HDT, Walden. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, 2004. HDT, Walden. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, 2004. Many Waldens • Differences in book design: pocket-size books, textbooks, coffee- table books, paperbacks for study. • Differences in target audiences: students, general readers, soldiers, people seeking inspiraDon. • Differences in how HDT is portrayed: – an author whose status is contested v. “lessons for a new millennium” – nature writer v. poliDcal philosopher – Writer whose work maZers in the “war of ideas” during WWII • Differences are drawn not by the author but by publishers. Example #2: Magazine publishing EAP, “The Raven.” The New-York Mirror, February 8, 1845. Close up of Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven.” The New-York Mirror, February 8, 1845. Mark Twain, “An Adventure of Huckleberry Finn.” The Century, December 1884. Mark Twain, “Jim’s Investments and King Sollermun.” The Century, January 1885. Mark Twain, “Royalty on the Mississippi.” The Century, February 1885. Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat.” Scribner’s, June 1897. Charlohe Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper.” New England Magazine, January 1892. EAP, “The Raven.” The New-York Mirror, February 8, 1945. Close-up on “To the Texas- Bound Emigrant: The Town of Trespalacios.” The New-York Mirror, February 8, 1845 Henry James, “The Bostonians.” The Century, February 1885. William Dean Howells, “The Rise of Silas Lapham.” The Century, February 1885. U. S. Grant, “The Bahle of Shiloh,” The Century, February 1885. Other arXcles in the Feb 1885 issue of The Century • “Canada as a Winter Resort” (travel essay) • “Dutch Portraiture” (art history) • “Notes of a Confederate Staff Officer” (memoir) • An editorial criDcizing conDnued “secDonal hatred” • An editorial on poliDcal and elecDon reform following the 1884 presidenDal elecDon Text of Stephen Crane, !"#$%#&'()*&#+!',-&'!",).'' “Stephen Crane’s Own %#'"#//!'%,-'"%#'(,00,1,)#'-*!'-)#(2#1'' Story.” The New York Press, *&1'%,-'%#'#!(*$#1'' 3#*)4()*5#1'&#6),'&#*)/.'!-*0$!'7,*"'' January 7, 1897. From the .,8&6'-)9"#)'(,0$#//#1",'-,)2'9&!!"93/9&6!*"0,!$%#)#'' website of the Ponce de Leon ,3'"%#!39)#'),,0'' Lighthouse and Museum. 7)*:#).',3'(;<=;>?'08)$%.'*&1'%9669&!'' 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Further reproduction prohibited without permission. M.D. “Perilous Stuff.” Boston Evening Transcript, April 8, 1892. Charlohe Perkins Gilman, WHY I WROTE THE YELLOW WALLPAPER? “Why I Wrote the Yellow A. Ty and many a reader has so near the border line of utter mc:ntal asked that. When the story ruin that I could see over. Wallpaper.” The Forerunner, M fjr t came ut, in the New 'I hen, using the remnant of intelli- bngland JJaga::ine abo u t t.hat remained, and helped by a October 1913. 1.'DI, a 130 ton physician made protest WIse fnend, I cast the noted .peciali_t':::; in The Transcript. 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He never acknowledged it. 'ome faint stir of hope, to a noted The little book is valued by pecialist in nervous diseases, the best and a a good specimen of one kind of known in the country. This wise man literature. It has to my knO\\ledge aved put me to bed and applied the rest cure, one woman from a similar fate-so terri- to which a still good physique rec;ponded fving her family that they let her out so promptly that he concluded there was into normal activity and she recovere l. nothing much the matter with me, and nut the be t result is this. :Many ent me home with solemn advice to year later I was told the "live a domestic a life as far as pos- peciali t had admitted fnends of hI ihle," to "have but two hour " in- that he had altered hIS treatment nt tellectual life a day," and 'never to neura thenia since reading The Yello7.C.' touch pen, brush or pencil again as long HIallpaper.
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