Paul Lauter
Biographic Data
| ID | 511364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Lauter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Lauter |
| SIGNATURE | LAUTER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Politics are downstream from culture”
“Politics are downstream from culture”: An Interview with Paul Lauter Submitted: May 29, 2026 Accepted: June 1, 2026
A History of American Working-Class Literature
A History of American Working-Class Literature sheds light not only on the lived experience of class but the enormously varied creativity of working-class people throughout the history of what is now the United States. By charting a chronology of working-class experience, as the conditions of work have changed over time, this volume shows how the practice of organizing, economic competition, place, and time shape opportunity and desire. The subje…
History of American Working-Class Literature
From Multiculturalism to Immigration Shock
Immigration is a tense political topic in virtually every Western country, and in many others as well. In fact, immigration is an international issue: 3 percent of the world's population, 191,000,000 people, now live in countries other than those in which they were born. This paper discusses why immigration is so fraught, the relation of the crisis over immigration to the growing fracture of the Western world's economy, as well as to terrorism li…
Taking Anthologies Seriously
Journal Article Taking Anthologies Seriously Get access Paul Lauter Paul Lauter 1Trinity College, Hartford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 29, Issue 3-4, Fall/Winter 2004, Pages 19–39, https://doi.org/10.2307/4141840 Published: 01 September 2004
Teaching History Through Immigration Stories
Teaching History Through Immigration Stories Get access Paul Lauter Paul Lauter Paul Lauter is the Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and general editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature, volumes I and II. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 13, Issue 2, Winter 1999, Pages 10–13, https://doi.org/10.…
Versions of Nashville, Visions of American Studies
THE BUILDING THAT HOUSES ONE OF THE TWO BIG DEPARTMENT stores in Semarang, the capital of Central Java, is laid out in a slightly flattened V. At one end of the ground floor is a McDonalds; at the other end, something called California Fried Chicken. Between them are smaller shops with American jeans, backpacks, and boots. Search throughout the building for a batik frock or some Javanese shorts to bring home to your grandchildren; you will be fru…
Melville Climbs the Canon
Le role joue par l'emergence du modernisme et de l'academisme (annees 1920) dans la construction du canon melvillien : le primitivisme de l'aventurier des mers du Sud, l'incarnation du mythe romantique du genie incompris, et l'illustration des valeurs masculines de la culture americaine dans les romans de Melville
Self-Interest and Vocation
On Revising the Heath Anthology of American Literature
Working-Class Women's Literature
Canons and Contexts
This collection of essays places issues central to literary study, particularly the question of the canon, in the context of institutional practices in American colleges and universities. Lauter addresses such crucial concerns as what students should read and study, how standards of "quality" are defined and changed, the limits of theoretical discourse, and the ways race, gender, and class shape not only teaching, curricula, and research prioriti…
Canons and Contexts
The Modern American Novel, 1914-1945
Reconstructing American Literature
Journal Article Reconstructing American Literature. Paul Lauter, ed. Old Westbury, New York: The Feminist Press, 1983. Get access Reconstructing American Literature. Paul Lauter. Old Westbury, New York: The Feminist Press, 1983. Trudelle Thomas Trudelle Thomas University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 12, Issue 3, September 1985, Pages 109–112, https://doi.org/10.2307/467124 Pu…
History and the Canon
History and the Canon Author(s): Paul Lauter Source: Social Text, Autumn, 1985, No. 12 (Autumn, 1985), pp. 94-101 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/466607
Reconstructing American Literature
Race and Gender in the Shaping of the American Literary Canon
Politics in the English Classroom
The Politics of Literature
Emerson's Revisions of Essays (First Series)
N THE SPRING OF I846, James Munroe and Company suggested to I Emerson a reprint of the first and second series of Essays in two uniform volumes. Emerson originally thought to expand the second series to a size comparable with the first, but the booksellers evidently persuaded him instead to revise and shorten the first series.' task proved most tedious to Emerson, and as he worked through his book, the revisions decreased both in number and signi…
Truth and Nature
Versions of Nashville, Visions of American Studies
THE BUILDING THAT HOUSES ONE OF THE TWO BIG DEPARTMENT stores in Semarang, the capital of Central Java, is laid out in a slightly flattened V. At one end of the ground floor is a McDonalds; at the other end, something called California Fried Chicken. Between them are smaller shops with American jeans, backpacks, and boots. Search throughout the building for a batik frock or some Javanese shorts to bring home to your grandchildren; you will be fru…
Race and Gender in the Shaping of the American Literary Canon
On Revising the Heath Anthology of American Literature
Truth and Nature
Emerson's Revisions of Essays (First Series)
N THE SPRING OF I846, James Munroe and Company suggested to I Emerson a reprint of the first and second series of Essays in two uniform volumes. Emerson originally thought to expand the second series to a size comparable with the first, but the booksellers evidently persuaded him instead to revise and shorten the first series.' task proved most tedious to Emerson, and as he worked through his book, the revisions decreased both in number and signi…
The Politics of Literature
Politics in the English Classroom
Race and Gender in the Shaping of the American Literary Canon
Reconstructing American Literature
Reconstructing American Literature
Journal Article Reconstructing American Literature. Paul Lauter, ed. Old Westbury, New York: The Feminist Press, 1983. Get access Reconstructing American Literature. Paul Lauter. Old Westbury, New York: The Feminist Press, 1983. Trudelle Thomas Trudelle Thomas University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 12, Issue 3, September 1985, Pages 109–112, https://doi.org/10.2307/467124 Pu…
History and the Canon
History and the Canon Author(s): Paul Lauter Source: Social Text, Autumn, 1985, No. 12 (Autumn, 1985), pp. 94-101 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/466607
The Modern American Novel, 1914-1945
Working-Class Women's Literature
Canons and Contexts
This collection of essays places issues central to literary study, particularly the question of the canon, in the context of institutional practices in American colleges and universities. Lauter addresses such crucial concerns as what students should read and study, how standards of "quality" are defined and changed, the limits of theoretical discourse, and the ways race, gender, and class shape not only teaching, curricula, and research prioriti…
Canons and Contexts
On Revising the Heath Anthology of American Literature
Melville Climbs the Canon
Le role joue par l'emergence du modernisme et de l'academisme (annees 1920) dans la construction du canon melvillien : le primitivisme de l'aventurier des mers du Sud, l'incarnation du mythe romantique du genie incompris, et l'illustration des valeurs masculines de la culture americaine dans les romans de Melville
Self-Interest and Vocation
Versions of Nashville, Visions of American Studies
THE BUILDING THAT HOUSES ONE OF THE TWO BIG DEPARTMENT stores in Semarang, the capital of Central Java, is laid out in a slightly flattened V. At one end of the ground floor is a McDonalds; at the other end, something called California Fried Chicken. Between them are smaller shops with American jeans, backpacks, and boots. Search throughout the building for a batik frock or some Javanese shorts to bring home to your grandchildren; you will be fru…
Teaching History Through Immigration Stories
Teaching History Through Immigration Stories Get access Paul Lauter Paul Lauter Paul Lauter is the Allan K. and Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and general editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature, volumes I and II. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 13, Issue 2, Winter 1999, Pages 10–13, https://doi.org/10.…
Taking Anthologies Seriously
Journal Article Taking Anthologies Seriously Get access Paul Lauter Paul Lauter 1Trinity College, Hartford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 29, Issue 3-4, Fall/Winter 2004, Pages 19–39, https://doi.org/10.2307/4141840 Published: 01 September 2004
From Multiculturalism to Immigration Shock
Immigration is a tense political topic in virtually every Western country, and in many others as well. In fact, immigration is an international issue: 3 percent of the world's population, 191,000,000 people, now live in countries other than those in which they were born. This paper discusses why immigration is so fraught, the relation of the crisis over immigration to the growing fracture of the Western world's economy, as well as to terrorism li…
A History of American Working-Class Literature
A History of American Working-Class Literature sheds light not only on the lived experience of class but the enormously varied creativity of working-class people throughout the history of what is now the United States. By charting a chronology of working-class experience, as the conditions of work have changed over time, this volume shows how the practice of organizing, economic competition, place, and time shape opportunity and desire. The subje…
History of American Working-Class Literature
“Politics are downstream from culture”
“Politics are downstream from culture”: An Interview with Paul Lauter Submitted: May 29, 2026 Accepted: June 1, 2026
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