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The brazen face of history : studies in the literary consciousness in America / Lewis P. Simpson.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simpson, Lewis P.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Literature and history--United States.
- Literature and history.
- United States.
- United States--Intellectual life.
- Intellectual life.
- United States--Historiography.
- Historiography.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 276 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge ; London : Louisiana State University Press, [1980]
- Contents:
- The printer as American man of letters
- The symbolism of literary alientation in the Revolutionary age
- The fiction of the real American revolution
- Slavery and modernism
- Coda/The act of thought in Virginia
- The Civil War and the failure of literary mind in America
- The southern exodus from Arcadia
- The will to art in postbellum America
- The spectatorial attitude
- Coda/The decorum of the writer
- The bard and the clerk
- The legend of the artist
- A fable of civilization
- What survivors do
- The closure of history in a postsouthern America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0807107522 :
- OCLC:
- 6200244
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