The American Essay in the American Century 1st Edition by Ned Stuckey French ISBN 0826272541 9780826272546

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ISBN 10: 0826272541 
ISBN 13: 9780826272546
Author: Ned Stuckey French

In modern culture, the essay is often considered an old-fashioned, unoriginal form of literary styling. The word essay brings to mind the uninspired five-paragraph theme taught in schools around the country or the antiquated, Edwardian meanderings of English gentlemen rattling on about art and old books. These connotations exist despite the fact that Americans have been reading and enjoying personal essays in popular magazines for decades, engaging with a multitude of ideas through this short-form means of expression.

The American Essay in the American Century 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Voices of a New Age (1900–1945)

Chapter 1: The Muckraker, the Modernist, and the Public Intellectual

• 1.1 The Essay as a Tool for Social Reform and Investigative Journalism
• 1.2 The Formal Experiments of Early Modernism
• 1.3 The Figure of the Public Intellectual in the Interwar Years

Chapter 2: The Essay in the Age of Crisis: Depression and War

• 2.1 Capturing the American Experience of the Great Depression
• 2.2 The Essay as a Vehicle for Social Critique and Economic Analysis
• 2.3 Patriotic and Polemical Essays during World War II

Chapter 3: The Essay and the Expat: Transatlantic Perspectives

• 3.1 American Essayists Abroad: Gertrude Stein and the Lost Generation
• 3.2 The View from Europe: Mary McCarthy and the Intellect’s Exile

Part II: The Post-War Boom and the Rise of the Personal (1945–1970)

Chapter 4: The Essay as a Form of Conscience: The Cold War and Civil Rights

• 4.1 The Essay’s Role in Debating Communism and American Identity
• 4.2 James Baldwin and the Essay as a Tool for Protest and Social Change
• 4.3 The Emergence of the “New Journalism” and its Essayistic Qualities

Chapter 5: The Essay and the Feminine Voice

• 5.1 Virginia Woolf’s Influence on American Women Essayists
• 5.2 Essayists and the Second Wave of Feminism
• 5.3 Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion: From Personal Experience to Cultural Critique

Chapter 6: A New Subjectivity: The Rise of the Personal Essay

• 6.1 Moving from Formal Argument to Personal Experience
• 6.2 The Influence of Confessional Poetry
• 6.3 Debating the Boundaries: Memoir, Essay, and Fiction

Part III: The Essay in an Age of Fragmentation and Media (1970–2000)

Chapter 7: The Essay as a Form of Reportage

• 7.1 Reimagining the Public Sphere in the Age of Television
• 7.2 The Literary Essay in Magazines and Journals
• 7.3 The Essay and the Documentary Impulse

Chapter 8: The Nature Essay: Finding a Sense of Place

• 8.1 The Legacy of Thoreau and Aldo Leopold
• 8.2 Annie Dillard and the Contemplative Essay
• 8.3 The Essay as a Form of Environmental Activism

Chapter 9: The Essay and Identity Politics

• 9.1 Exploring Race, Class, and Gender in Essayistic Form
• 9.2 Essayists of the Asian American and Latinx experience
• 9.3 The Essay as a Site of Identity Formation

Part IV: The Enduring Form

Chapter 10: The Essay in the Academy and the Workshop

• 10.1 The Professionalization of Creative Writing
• 10.2 The Role of University Presses and MFA Programs
• 10.3 Essay Anthologies as a Record of the Century

Chapter 11: The Essay at the Turn of the Millennium

• 11.1 The Transition from Print to Digital Media
• 11.2 The Essay as a Blog Post, a Tweet, and a Podcast
• 11.3 The Enduring Power of the Essay’s Voice

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