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Author Tanner, Tony.

Title Scenes of nature, signs of men / Tony Tanner.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PS201 .T28 1987    Available  ---
Description x, 278 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
Note Includes index.
Contents Scenes of nature, signs of men -- Notes for a comparison between American and European romanticism -- Problems and roles of the American artist as portrayed by the American novelist -- James on Hawthorne -- Lost America -the despair of Henry Adams and Mark Twain -- Henry James and Henry Adams -- William Dean Howells and A hazard of new fortunes -- Stephen Crane -- Bostonians and the human voice -- Games American writers play: ceremony, complicity, contestation, and carnival -- Toward an ultimate topography: the work of Joseph McElroy -- Frames and sentences -- William Gass's barns and bees.
Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Indexed Term English literature American writers, 1800-1987 - Critical studies
ISBN 0521323185
9780521323185