Title Required reading : why our American classics matter now / Andrew Delbanco.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS25 .D45 1997 1997	Available	---

Edition	1st ed.
Description	xi, 225 pages ; 24 cm
Note	Includes index.
Contents	Melville's sacramental style -- Thoreau faces death -- The little woman who started the great war -- The two Lincolns -- Henry Adams and the end of the world -- Thee short, unhappy life of Stephen Crane -- Was Kate Chopin a feminist? -- Lyrical Dreiser -- What would Edith Wharton think? -- The new Native Son -- The political incorrectness of Zora Neale Hurston -- Reading for pleasure.
Subject	American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
	American literature.
	National characteristics, American, in literature.
	National characteristics, American, in literature.
	Politics and literature -- United States.
	Politics and literature.
	United States.
	Literature and society -- United States.
	Literature and society.
	Books and reading -- United States.
	Books and reading.
	Liberalism in literature.
	Liberalism in literature.
	Democracy in literature.
	Democracy in literature.
	Canon (Literature)
	Canon (Literature)
ISBN	0374230072 alkaline paper