| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 241 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-224) and index. |
| Summary |
Presenting an analysis of the American literary history, this work offers important insights into the practices, beliefs, and values that shaped the discipline. It reveals the forces, both inside and outside the academy, that propelled the rise of American literary history and persist as influences on the work of practitioners of the field. |
| Contents |
The lay of the land : nation and the responsibilities of literary history -- A culture of retrospection : the rise of literary history in the late nineteenth century -- Preservation and assimilation : Brander Matthews and the silences of literary history -- Class, authority, and literary history -- Copyrighting American history : international copyright and the periodization of the nineteenth century -- A higher function : literary history and the advent of professionalism -- Rancor's remains : Barrett Wendell and the New England renaissance -- Relevance and its discontents. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| 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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Criticism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Criticism. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stokes, Claudia, 1970- Writers in retrospect. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2006010780 |
| ISBN |
9780807877500 (electronic book) |
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0807877506 (electronic book) |
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0807830402 (alkaline paper) |
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9780807830406 (alkaline paper) |
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0807857203 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807857205 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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