Creating American Civilization

A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline

By: David Shumway

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"Shumway has written a penetrating and provocative account of the making of American civilization as an academic field."

Gerald Graff

University of Chicago

David R. Shumway contends that American literature is the product of study - the deliberate invention of a discipline seeking to define the character and legitimate the existence of a specifically American civilization. He traces the various reconstitutions of American literature by examining the discipline's practices and techniques, discourses and structures, paradigms and unstated assumptions.

This genealogy begins around 1890, when American literature as defined by institutions outside the academy, such as magazines and publishing houses, acquired much of the ideology it would display in later phases, including sexism, racism, and class bias. Singular in its treatment of American literary study as a discipline rather than as criticism and in its insistence on the cultural and political work carried on by this discipline, Creating American Civilization will engage literary theorists and historians as well as individuals with an interest in American literature.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The History of a Discipline	p. 1
The Literary in America, 1890-1920	p. 25
Preprofessional History and Criticism	p. 61
English as a Discursive Practice	p. 96
American Literature as a Discipline: Constituting the Object	p. 123
Institutionalizing American Literature	p. 148
American Literature in the Curriculum	p. 191
The Triumph of the Aesthetic	p. 221
Left Criticism and the New York Intellectuals	p. 261
Civilization "Discovered"	p. 299
Epilogue: A Trailer	p. 345
Notes	p. 361
Index	p. 391
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