| Description |
xii, 351 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Harvard English studies ; 13
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Harvard English studies ; 13.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents |
"We hold these truths" / Robert A. Ferguson -- Popular fiction and critical values / Morris Dickstein -- Origin and authority / Barbara Packer -- Benito Cereno and new world slavery / Eric J. Sundquist -- The American sexual poetics of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Appearing and disappearing in public / Philip Fisher -- Corporate fiction / Walter Benn Michaels -- On the idealogies of poetic modernism, 1890-1913 / Frank Lentricchia -- A critique of pure pluralism / Werner Sollors -- American poet-critics since 1945 / Robert von Hallberg -- Distrust of the reader in Afro-American narratives / Robert B. Stepto -- Collage or miracle / Wendy Steiner. |
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"We hold these truths" / Robert A. Ferguson -- Popular fiction and critical values / Morris Dickstein -- Origin and authority / Barbara Packer -- Benito Cereno and new world slavery / Eric J. Sundquist -- The American sexual poetics of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Appearing and disappearing in public / Philip Fisher -- Corporate fiction / Walter Benn Michaels -- On the idealogies of poetic modernism, 1890-1913 / Frank Lentricchia -- A critique of pure pluralism / Werner Sollors -- American poet- critics since 1945 / Robert von Hallberg -- Distrust of the reader in Afro- American narratives / Robert B. Stepto -- Collage or miracle / Wendy Steiner. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Indexed Term |
English literature American writers, to 1980 - Critical studies |
| Added Author |
Bercovitch, Sacvan.
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| ISBN |
0674750853 dalkaline paper |
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9780674750852 dalkaline paper |
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0674750861 alkaline paper |
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9780674750869 alkaline paper |
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