Reconstructing American literary history / edited by Sacvan Bercovitch.

Other author Bercovitch, Sacvan.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©1986.
Descriptionxii, 351 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesHarvard English studies ; 13
Harvard English studies ; 13.
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.
Local noteLittle-256398
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographies.
LCCN 85021972
ISBN0674750853 (dalk. paper)
ISBN0674750861 (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS92 .R4 1986 ✔ Available Place Hold