Revisionary interventions into the Americanist canon
Title:
Revisionary interventions into the Americanist canon
Author:
Pease, Donald E.
Publication Information:
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1994.
Physical Description:
viii, 342 p.
Series:
New Americanists
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
New Americanists.
General Note:
"The text of this book originally was published without the present preface or index as vol. 17, no. 1 of Boundary 2"--T.p. verso.
Contents:
New Americanists : revisionist interventions into the canon / "Res Publica" of letters / Rationale for "the American romance" / Scarcity, subjectivity, and Emerson / Hearing narrative voices in Melville's "Pierre" / Rhetorical use and abuse of fiction : eating books in late nineteenth-century America / Maternal discourse and the romance of self-possession in Kate Chopin's "the Awakening"
Realism, ideology, and the novel in America (1886-1896) : changing perspectives in the work of Mark Twain, W. D. Howells, and Henry James / American literature and the new historicism : the example of Frederick Douglas / "Ours by the law of nature" : romance and independents on Mark Twain's river / Cataloging the creatures of the deep : "Billy Budd, sailor" and the rise of sociology / Violence, revolution, and the cost of freedom : John Brown and W. E. B. DuBois
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