Bibliograph

Ideology and classic American literature, edited by Sacvan Bercovitch and Myra Jehlen

Type

Label

Ideology and classic American literature, edited by Sacvan Bercovitch and Myra Jehlen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ideology and classic American literature

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

12557361

Responsibility statement

edited by Sacvan Bercovitch and Myra Jehlen

Series statement

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture

Table Of Contents

Introduction : beyond transcendence / Myra Jehlen -- Symbol and idea in Virgin Land / Henry Nash Smith -- Pastoralism in America / Leo Marx -- Myth and the production of history / Richard Slotkin -- American criticism left and right / Gerald Graff -- The novel and the middle class in America / Myra Jehlen -- Figurations for a new American literary history / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- American studies as a cultural program / Alan Trachtenberg -- Reification and American literature / Carolyn Porter -- Mysteries of the city : a reading of Poe's "The man of the crowd" / Robert H. Byer -- The politics of The scarlet letter / Jonathan Arac -- Sentimental power : Uncle Tom's cabin and the politics of literary history / Jane Tompkins -- Walden and the "curse of trade" / Michael T. Gilmore -- Melville's economy of language / Paul Royster -- Art, religion, and the problem of authority in Pierre / Emory Elliott -- That hive of subtlety : "Benito Cereno" and the liberal hero / James H. Kavanagh -- Melville and cultural persuasion / Donald E. Pease -- Afterword / Sacvan Bercovitch

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