American Literature in Transition, 1851–1877

Cody Marrs is a Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He is the author of An Aesthetics in All Things: Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies, Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling About the Civil War, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War; the editor of The New Melville Studies; and a co-editor of Timelines of American Literature. He lives with his family in Athens, Georgia.

Introduction Cody Marrs; I. Careers: 1. Emily Dickinson Cristanne Miller; 2. Frederick Douglass Gregory Laski; 3. Augusta Jane Evans Melissa Homestead; 4. Herman Melville Brian Yothers; 5. John Rollin Ridge Alanna Hickey; 6. Walt Whitman Peter Riley; 7. Anonymous Michael Cohen; II. Networks: 8. Newspapers and Periodicals Ryan Cordell; 9. Transamerican Literature Alberto Varon; 10. Oceanic Literature Edward Sugden; 11. Romanticism Jennifer Baker; 12. Realism Todd Carmody; III. Exchanges: 13. Literature and/as Philosophy Michael Jonik; 14. Literature and/as Science Mark Noble; 15. Literature and/as Ecology Juliana Chow; 16. Literature and/as Economics Andrew Kopec; IV. The Long Civil War: 17. The War before the War Maurice Lee; 18. Union Literature Ian Finseth; 19. Confederate Literature Christopher Hanlon; 20. Reconstruction Literature Elizabeth Renker; 21. The Global Civil War Elizabeth Duquette.