Historicism once more : problems & occasions for the American scholar / Roy Harvey Pearce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pearce, Roy Harvey, author.

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton Legacy Library ; 2057

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism--Theory.

Literature and history--United States.

Historicism.

United States--Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1969.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A collection of some of Pearce's best-known essays on historical criticism in which he suggests a way of going beyond positivist historiography and formalist explication de texie toward a criticism which vitally engages the reader in what he reads and puts him m a position of judging himself and his culture, past and present.Originally published in 1969.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contents

I. Problems

I . Historicism Once More

2. Literature, History, and Humanism

3. Mass Culture/Popular Culture

4. Robin Molineux on The Analyst's Couch

II. Occasions

5. The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating

6. Hawthorne and The Sense of The Past; or, The Immortality of Major Molineux

7. Hawthorne and the Twilight of Romance

8. Whitman

9. Henry James and His American

10. Wallace Stevens

11. Theodore Roethke: The Power of Sympathy

12. Whitman and Our Hope for Poetry

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 241-255.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-64867-0

1-4008-7600-1

OCLC:

966768592