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The Power of Historical Knowledge : Narrating the Past in Hawthorne, James, and Dreiser /
In this provocative study, Susan Mizruchi argues that the act of writing history is the key to the political concerns of American novelists. Using nineteenth-century theories of history as well as recent narratological models, she examines reconstructions of the past in The House of the Seven Gables...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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| Edición: | Course Book |
| Colección: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
880 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- ONE. The Problem of History in American Literature
- TWO. The Problem of History in American Historiography
- THREE. From History To Gingerbread: Manufacturing a Republic in The House of the Seven Gables
- FOUR. The Politics of Temporality in The Bostonians
- FIVE. American Innocence and English Perils: The Treachery of Tales in The Wings of the Dove
- SIX. The Power of Mere Fable: Reconstructing the Past in An American Tragedy
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter