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Revisionary interventions into the Americanist canon

Print Book, English, 1994
Duke University Press, Durham, N.C. [etc.], 1994
VIII, 343 p.; 23 cm
9780822314936, 0822314932
1120337439
Preface viiNew Americanists: Revisionist Interventions in to the Canon / Donald E. Pease 1The Res Publica of Letters / Michael Warner 38The Rationale for "The American Romance" / John McWilliams 71Scarcity, Subjectivity, and Emerson / Wai-chee Dimock 83Hearing Narrative Voices in Melville's Pierre / Priscilla Wald 100The Rhetorical Use and Abuse of Fiction: Eating Books in Late Nineteenth-Century American / Steven Mailloux 133Maternal Discourse and the Romance of Self-Possession in Kate Chopin's The Awakening / Ivy Schweitzer 158Realism, Ideology, and the Novel in American (1886-1896): Changing Perspectives in the Work of Mark Twain, W. D. Howells, and Henry James / Robert Weimann 189American Literature and the New Historicism: The Example of Frederick Douglass / Gregory S. Jay 211"Ours by the Law of Naure": Romance and Independents on Mark Twain's River / Howard Horwitz 243Cataloging the Creatures of the Deep: "Billy Budd, Sailor" and the Rise of Sociology / Susan Misruchi 272Violence, Revolution and the Cost of Freedom: John Brown and W. E. B. DuBois / WIlliam E. Cain 305Contributors 331Index 333