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UNINA9910465641303321 |
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Autore |
Gilmore Michael T |
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Titolo |
Surface and depth [[electronic resource] ] : the quest for legibility in American culture / / Michael T. Gilmore |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-531324-0 |
0-19-803587-X |
1-60256-941-X |
9786610502776 |
1-280-50277-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (234 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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; |
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