03481nam 2200769 a 450 991046564130332120211005163451.00-19-531324-00-19-803587-X1-60256-941-X97866105027761-280-50277-0(CKB)2560000000295611(EBL)3051869(OCoLC)57419444(SSID)ssj0000089741(PQKBManifestationID)11119684(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000089741(PQKBWorkID)10092295(PQKB)10817494(StDuBDS)EDZ0000073856(MiAaPQ)EBC3051869(Au-PeEL)EBL3051869(CaPaEBR)ebr10085323(CaONFJC)MIL50277(MiAaPQ)EBC279681(Au-PeEL)EBL279681(OCoLC)191038671(EXLCZ)99256000000029561120020222d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSurface and depth[electronic resource] the quest for legibility in American culture /Michael T. GilmoreOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20031 online resource (234 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-515776-1 0-19-978778-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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" WesternHemingway'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; WThe 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.American prose literatureHistory and criticismSocial problems in literatureNational characteristics, American, in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticismLiterature and societyUnited StatesUnited StatesIn literatureUnited StatesCivilizationElectronic books.American prose literatureHistory and criticism.Social problems in literature.National characteristics, American, in literature.American fictionHistory and criticism.Literature and society818/.08Gilmore Michael T325047MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465641303321Surface and depth2443865UNINA