| Description |
xxii, 411 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Representations books ; 5
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Representations books ; 5.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Franklin and the letters of the republic / Michael Warner -- The death of the lady (novelist) : Wharton's House of mirth / Elaine Showalter -- Hawthorne's A-morality of compromise / Sacvan Bercovitch -- Democratic social space : Whitman, Melville, and the promise of American transparency / Philip Fisher -- Mark Twain and Homer Plessy / Eric J. Sundquist -- Sparing the rod : discipline and fiction in antebellum America / Richard H. Brodhead -- An American tragedy, or the promise of American life / Walter Benn Michaels -- Representing grief : Emerson's "experience" / Sharon Cameron -- Bodily bonds : the intersecting rhetorics of feminism and abolition / Karen Sánchez-Eppler -- "The gentle boy from the dangerous classes" : pederasty, domesticity, and capitalism in Horatio Alger / Michael Moon. |
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Albums of war : on reading Civil War photographs / Alan Trachtenberg -- The trope of a new negro and the reconstruction of the image of the Black / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- "The sword became a flashing vision" : D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation / Michael Rogin. |
| Subject |
United States -- Civilization.
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United States. |
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Civilization. |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Added Author |
Fisher, Philip, 1941-
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| Added Title |
Representations (Berkeley, Calif.)
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| ISBN |
0520073290 alkaline paper |
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0520073304 paperback alkaline paper |
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