Revisionary interventions into the Americanist canon
Revisionary interventions into the Americanist canon [electronic resource]
Donald E. Pease, editor.
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1994.
- viii, 342 p.
- New Americanists .
- e-Duke books scholarly collection. New Americanists. .
"The text of this book originally was published without the present preface or index as vol. 17, no. 1 of Boundary 2"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New Americanists : revisionist interventions into the canon / "Res Publica" of letters / Rationale for "the American romance" / Scarcity, subjectivity, and Emerson / Hearing narrative voices in Melville's "Pierre" / Rhetorical use and abuse of fiction : eating books in late nineteenth-century America / Maternal discourse and the romance of self-possession in Kate Chopin's "the Awakening" / Donald E. Pease -- Michael Warner -- John McWilliams -- Wai-chee Dimock -- Priscilla Wald -- Steven Mailloux -- Ivy Schweitzer -- Realism, ideology, and the novel in America (1886-1896) : changing perspectives in the work of Mark Twain, W. D. Howells, and Henry James / American literature and the new historicism : the example of Frederick Douglas / "Ours by the law of nature" : romance and independents on Mark Twain's river / Cataloging the creatures of the deep : "Billy Budd, sailor" and the rise of sociology / Violence, revolution, and the cost of freedom : John Brown and W. E. B. DuBois / Robert Weimann -- Gregory S. Jay -- Howard Horwitz -- Susan Mizruchi -- William E. Cain.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--19th century
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Literature and history--United States.
Canon (Literature)
Historicism.
Electronic books.
PS201 / .R46 1994
"The text of this book originally was published without the present preface or index as vol. 17, no. 1 of Boundary 2"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New Americanists : revisionist interventions into the canon / "Res Publica" of letters / Rationale for "the American romance" / Scarcity, subjectivity, and Emerson / Hearing narrative voices in Melville's "Pierre" / Rhetorical use and abuse of fiction : eating books in late nineteenth-century America / Maternal discourse and the romance of self-possession in Kate Chopin's "the Awakening" / Donald E. Pease -- Michael Warner -- John McWilliams -- Wai-chee Dimock -- Priscilla Wald -- Steven Mailloux -- Ivy Schweitzer -- Realism, ideology, and the novel in America (1886-1896) : changing perspectives in the work of Mark Twain, W. D. Howells, and Henry James / American literature and the new historicism : the example of Frederick Douglas / "Ours by the law of nature" : romance and independents on Mark Twain's river / Cataloging the creatures of the deep : "Billy Budd, sailor" and the rise of sociology / Violence, revolution, and the cost of freedom : John Brown and W. E. B. DuBois / Robert Weimann -- Gregory S. Jay -- Howard Horwitz -- Susan Mizruchi -- William E. Cain.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--19th century
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Literature and history--United States.
Canon (Literature)
Historicism.
Electronic books.
PS201 / .R46 1994