Modern American reading practices : between aesthetics and history / Philip Goldstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldstein, Philip.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Influence.

Foucault, Michel.

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature.

Criticism--United States--History--19th century.

Criticism.

Literature--Study and teaching (Higher).

History.

Books and reading--Social aspects.

Books and reading.

United States.

Criticism--United States--History--20th century.

Books and reading--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Books and reading--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Literature--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--History.

Literature.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

vi, 181 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Contents:

Modern American reading practices : between aesthetics and history

Aesthetic theory : from Marxist critique to cultural history

Aesthetics and reading : between theory and history

Gothic romances and the modern humanities : the changing status of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn : from liberal realism to multiculturalism

Richard Wright's Native son : between naturalist protest and modernist liberation

Identity and convention in Faulkner's Light in August and Morrison's Jazz

The politics of Sara Paretsky's detective fiction

From aesthetics to reading practices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-175) and index.

ISBN:

0230612253

9780230612259

OCLC:

226357042