Title Revisionary interventions into the Americanist canon / Donald E. Pease, editor

Published Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 342 pages) Series New Americanists New Americanists. E-Duke books scholarly collection Contents 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 Summary 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 subordinated social groups as well as literary works themselves, works both outside and within the traditional canon. This book is an effort to recover those lost voices. Engaging New Historicist, neo-Marxist, poststructuralist, and other literary practices, this volume marks important shifts in the organiz Analysis English fiction United States Notes "The text of this book originally was published without the present preface or index as vol. 17, no. 1 of Boundary 2"--Title page verso Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL In English Print version record digitized 2021. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT University of South Alabama gnd Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century Literature and history -- United States Canon (Literature) Historicism. 18.06 Anglo-American literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Canon (Literature) Kanon Literatur Literaturwissenschaft Aufsatzsammlung Historicism. Amerikaans. Literature and history. Letterkunde. Canon. Literature and society. American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Literature and society -- United States -- 19th century. Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Canon (Literature) Historicism. United States. USA. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book Author Pease, Donald E., editor. LC no. 93049688 ISBN 9780822382645 0822382644

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