Revisionary interventions into the Americanist canon / Donald E. Pease, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pease, Donald E.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

New Americanists.

New Americanists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Literature and history--United States.

Literature and history.

Canon (Literature).

Historicism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably demonstrates, that consensus was built upon the repression of the voices and historical contexts of subordinated social groups as well as literary works themselves, works both outside and within the traditional canon. This book is an effort to recover those lost voices. Engaging New Historicist, neo-Marxist, poststructuralist, and other literary practices, this volume marks important shifts in the organiz

Contents:

New Americanists : revisionist interventions into the canon / Donald E. Pease

"Res Publica" of letters / Michael Warner

Rationale for "the American romance" / John McWilliams

Scarcity, subjectivity, and Emerson / Wai-chee Dimock

Hearing narrative voices in Melville's "Pierre" / Priscilla Wald

Rhetorical use and abuse of fiction : eating books in late nineteenth-century America / Steven Mailloux

Maternal discourse and the romance of self-possession in Kate Chopin's "the Awakening" / 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 / Robert Weimann

American literature and the new historicism : the example of Frederick Douglas / Gregory S. Jay

"Ours by the law of nature" : romance and independents on Mark Twain's river / Howard Horwitz

Cataloging the creatures of the deep : "Billy Budd, sailor" and the rise of sociology / Susan Mizruchi

Violence, revolution, and the cost of freedom : John Brown and W. E. B. DuBois / William E. Cain.

Notes:

"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.

ISBN:

1-282-91981-4

9786612919817

0-8223-8264-4

OCLC:

850215194