| Description |
xiii, 357 pages ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Essays. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
1. Problems: Historicism once more -- Literature, history, and humanism: an Americanist's dilemma -- Mass culture/popular culture: notes for a humanist's primer -- Robin Molineux on the analyst's couch: a note on the limits of psychoanalytic criticism -- 2. Occasions: Metaphysics of Indian-hating: Leatherstocking unmasked -- Hawthorne and the sense of the past; or, The immortality of Major Molineux -- Hawthorne and the twilight of romance -- Whitman: the poet in 1860 -- Henry James and his American -- Wallace Stevens: the last lesson of the master -- Theodore Roethke: the power of sympathy -- Whitman and our hope for poetry. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American literature. |
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Literature and history -- United States.
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Literature and history. |
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United States. |
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United States -- Historiography.
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Historiography. |
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Historicism.
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Historicism. |
| ISBN |
0691061556 |
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9780691061559 |
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