Reading America: Essays on American Literature

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Knopf, 1987 - 320 pages
The distinguished critic offers us his selection of his essays and commentaries on American writing and writers, from Emerson and Whitman through Auden and Ashbery. Donoghue examines the canon in the light of the American enterprise -- the imperatives of a powerful national past versus the subversions of an irrevocably anarchic spirit. The result is indispensable readinig for anyone hoping to inquire humanely into our national literature. -- Publisher's description.

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Whitman
68
Henry Adamss Novels
111
Henry James and The Sense of the Past
125
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Denis Donoghue is University Professor and Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University.

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