| Description |
1 online resource (212 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-205) and index. |
| Contents |
The problem of American literary scholarship -- Reading the tradition: the rhetoric of transcendentalist scholarship -- Time and textuality: Between metaphor and metaphysics: reading Emerson as "onward thinking" ; Writing in/as history: Thoreau's Week -- American literary scholarship for the twentieth century. |
| Summary |
This monograph argues that the institution of American literary scholarship enshrines a reactionary view of history and narrative and an unrealistic view of America itself. The author also examines contemporary debates about the methods and status of literary history in general. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American literature. |
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature. |
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Criticism -- United States -- History.
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Criticism. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Indexed Term |
Literature History |
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United States |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Carafiol, Peter C. American ideal. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991 0195067657 (DLC) 90045506 (OCoLC)22305587 |
| ISBN |
1423764439 (electronic book) |
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9781423764434 (electronic book) |
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1601298056 |
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9781601298058 |
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1280440775 |
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9781280440779 |
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0195067657 (Cloth) |
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9780195067651 |
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