Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon /

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Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably demonstrates, that consensus was built upon the repression of the voices and historical contexts of subordina...

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Otros Autores: Pease, Donald E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1994.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
University of South Alabama
Historicism.
Canon (Literature)
Literature and history > United States > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > United States > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Canon.
Letterkunde.
Amerikaans.
Aufsatzsammlung
Literaturwissenschaft
Literatur
Kanon
Literature and society.
Literature and history.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
18.06 Anglo-American literature.
Historicisme.
Chefs-d'oeuvre (Litterature)
Litterature et histoire > États-Unis.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Literature and history > United States.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
USA.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • New Americanists : revisionist interventions into the canon / Donald E. Pease
  • "Res Publica" of letters / Michael Warner
  • Rationale for "the American romance" / John McWilliams
  • Scarcity, subjectivity, and Emerson / Wai-chee Dimock
  • Hearing narrative voices in Melville's "Pierre" / Priscilla Wald
  • Rhetorical use and abuse of fiction : eating books in late nineteenth-century America / Steven Mailloux
  • Maternal discourse and the romance of self-possession in Kate Chopin's "the Awakening" / Ivy Schweitzer.
  • Realism, ideology, and the novel in America (1886-1896) : changing perspectives in the work of Mark Twain, W.D. Howells, and Henry James / Robert Weimann
  • American literature and the new historicism : the example of Frederick Douglas / Gregory S. Jay
  • "Ours by the law of nature" : romance and independents on Mark Twain's river / Howard Horwitz
  • Cataloging the creatures of the deep : "Billy Budd, sailor" and the rise of sociology / Susan Mizruchi
  • Violence, revolution, and the cost of freedom : John Brown and W.E.B. DuBois / William E. Cain.

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