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In its first five years, American Literary History has produced an exciting body of work representing the full range of American literary critical practices at a time when no consensus in the field exists. This collection brings together the cream of this cutting-edge work, presenting seventeen of the most significant voices in the argument over literature's importance. Among the contributors and issues included in the anthology are Hertha D. Wong on Indian pictographs and the language of selfhood they inscribe, David Lionel Smith on the Black Arts Movement, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on the new pluralism, David Leverenz on the "representative man" and gender politics, Betsy Erkkila on Dickinson and class, and RamA3n Saldivar on the literature of the border. A state of the art look at American literary criticism, this handy compendium will interest all scholars and students in the field, regardless of their familiarity with the journal.
"An important and especially wide-ranging collection of essays that will provide good critical perspective in American literature surveys as well as a fine introduction to historical criticism in courses on criticism."--Rex Burns, University of Colorado at Denver
| Introduction | |
| Fantasies of Utopia in The Blithedale Romance | p. 3 |
| Veiled Ladies: Toward a History of Antebellum Entertainment | p. 36 |
| Pictographs as Autobiography: Plains Indian Sketchbooks of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries | p. 58 |
| Early Histories of American Literature: A Chapter in the Institution of New England | p. 80 |
| Bio-Political Resistance in Domestic Ideology and Uncle Tom's Cabin | p. 111 |
| Beyond Transcendence or Beyond Ideology: The New Problematics of Cultural Criticism in America | p. 131 |
| The Ties that Bind: Race and Sex in Pudd'nhead Wilson | p. 149 |
| The Vanishing American | p. 166 |
| The Limits of Cultural Studies | p. 188 |
| The Black Arts Movement and Its Critics | p. 204 |
| Reassembling Daisy Miller | p. 222 |
| Good-bye Columbus? Notes on the Culture of Criticism | p. 245 |
| The Last Real Man in America: From Natty Bumppo to Batman | p. 262 |
| Emily Dickinson and Class | p. 291 |
| The Borderlands of Culture: Americo Paredes's George Washington Gomez and Chicano Literature at the End of the Twentieth Century | p. 318 |
| George Whitefield, Spectacular Conversion, and the Rise of Democratic Personality | p. 340 |
| What's Art Got to Do with It? The Status of the Subject of the Humanities in the Age of Cultural Studies | p. 370 |
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ISBN: 9780195095043
ISBN-10: 0195095049
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 400
Published: 19th May 1995
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6
x 2.6
Weight (kg): 0.553
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