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Title Narratives of nostalgia, gender, and nationalism / edited by Jean Pickering and Suzanne Kehde
Published Washington Square : New York University Press, 1997

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Description ix, 214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents 1. The Future of Nostalgia in Friedrich Schlegel's Gender Theory: Casting German Aesthetics Beyond Ancient Greece and Modern Europe / Jonathan Steinwand -- 2. Writing Historically, Speaking Nostalgically: The Competing Languages of Nation in Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor / Janet Sorensen -- 3. From Nation of Virtue to Virtual Nation: Washington Irving and American Nationalism / Walter Sondey -- 4. The Birthing of the American Flag and the Invention of an American Founding Mother in the Image of Betsy Ross / JoAnn Menezes -- 5. Mother India Through the Ages: the Dilemma of Conflicting Subjectivities / Sabina Sawhney -- 6. Willa Cather's My Antonia and the Politics of Modernist Classicism / John N. Swift -- 7. Scripting Woman into the Discourse of Nostalgia: Gender and the Nation State / Hema Chari -- 8. Female Sacrifice: Gender and Nostalgic Nationalism in Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon / Loretta Stec
9. Where Are the Missing Contents? (Post)Modernism, Gender, and the Canon / Ellen G. Friedman -- 10. Remembering D-Day: A Case History in Nostalgia / Jean Pickering
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Nationalism in literature.
Nostalgia in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
Women and literature -- United States -- History.
Author Kehde, Suzanne, 1949-
Pickering, Jean.
LC no. 96012917
ISBN 0333625498
0814766358
0814766366 (paperback)