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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465641303321

Autore

Gilmore Michael T

Titolo

Surface and depth [[electronic resource] ] : the quest for legibility in American culture / / Michael T. Gilmore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-19-531324-0

0-19-803587-X

1-60256-941-X

9786610502776

1-280-50277-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Disciplina

818/.08

Soggetti

American prose literature - History and criticism

Social problems in literature

National characteristics, American, in literature

American fiction - History and criticism

Literature and society - United States

Electronic books.

United States In literature

United States Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PROLOGUE : Freud's Night Out; 1 Three Foundational Documents and Their Indelibility; 2 Majoritarian and Racial Tyranny: Tocqueville and Beaumont; 3 Popular Forms; Cooper and the Western; Poe and the Detective Story; Fanny Fern and the Celebrity Novel; 4 The Nineteenth-Century Canon: Hidden in Plain Sight; The Scarlet Letter; Melville's Moby-Dick; Thoreau's Walden; James's The American; 5 Freud and Film Redux; 6 Twentieth-Century Classics and New Technologies of Legibility; Wharton's Summer; Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as a "Modernist" Western

Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises7 Race/Erasure: Douglass to Roth; EQUIVOCAL EPILOGUE : Total Visibility in Utopia and Dystopia; NOTES;



INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

The idea of a common American culture is in retreat; arguments emphasizing difference have discredited the grand synthetic studies that marginalized groups and perspectives at odds with the master narrative. This work is an attempt to revitalize an interpretive overview.