Reconstructing American Literary History

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Pub. Date: 1999-06-01
Publisher(s): Iuniverse Inc
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Table of Contents

"We Hold These Truths": Strategies of Control in the Literature of the Foundersp. 1
Popular Fiction and Critical Values: The Novel as a Challenge to Literary Historyp. 29
Origin and Authority: Emerson and the Higher Criticismp. 67
Benito Cereno and New World Slaveryp. 93
The American Sexual Poetics of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinsonp. 123
Appearing and Disappearing in Public: Social Space in Late-Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culturep. 155
Corporate Fiction: Norris, Royce, and Arthur Machenp. 189
On the Ideologies of Poetic Modernism, 1890-1913: The Example of William Jamesp. 220
A Critique of Pure Pluralismp. 250
American Poet-Critics since 1945p. 280
Distrust of the Reader in Afro-American Narrativesp. 300
Collage or Miracle: Historicism in a Deconstructed Worldp. 323
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