| Description |
xii, 451 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture |
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction : beyond transcendence / Myra Jehlen -- Symbol and idea in Virgin Land / Henry Nash Smith -- Pastoralism in America / Leo Marx -- Myth and the production of history / Richard Slotkin -- American criticism left and right / Gerald Graff -- The novel and the middle class in America / Myra Jehlen -- Figurations for a new American literary history / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- American studies as a cultural program / Alan Trachtenberg -- Reification and American literature / Carolyn Porter -- Mysteries of the city : a reading of Poe's "The man of the crowd" / Robert H. Byer -- The politics of The scarlet letter / Jonathan Arac -- Sentimental power : Uncle Tom's cabin and the politics of literary history / Jane Tompkins -- Walden and the "curse of trade" / Michael T. Gilmore -- Melville's economy of language / Paul Royster -- Art, religion, and the problem of authority in Pierre / Emory Elliott -- That hive of subtlety : "Benito Cereno" and the liberal hero / James H. Kavanagh -- Melville and cultural persuasion / Donald E. Pease -- Afterword / Sacvan Bercovitch |
| Analysis |
English literature American writers, 1830-1861 - Critical studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 443-446 |
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Includes index |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 19th century.
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American literature -- 20th century.
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History in literature.
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Ideology in literature.
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Politics in literature.
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Politics, Practical -- In literature.
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| Author |
Bercovitch, Sacvan.
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Jehlen, Myra.
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| LC no. |
85021247 |
| ISBN |
0521252210 |
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0521273099 (paperback) |
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