Revisionary interventions into the Americanist canon
Donald E. Pease (Editor)
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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (viii, 342 pages)
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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
"The text of this book originally was published without the present preface or index as vol. 17, no. 1 of Boundary 2"--Title page verso
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