04021nam 22007214a 450 991077798880332120080321091817.01-282-91981-497866129198170-8223-8264-410.1515/9780822382645(CKB)1000000000757566(EBL)1167723(OCoLC)850215194(SSID)ssj0000394574(PQKBManifestationID)11242553(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000394574(PQKBWorkID)10425287(PQKB)10245880(OCoLC)191222351(MiAaPQ)EBC1167723191222351(MdBmJHUP)muse80597(DE-B1597)553803(DE-B1597)9780822382645(OCoLC)1226679639(EXLCZ)99100000000075756620080125d1994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRevisionary interventions into the Americanist canon[electronic resource] /Donald E. Pease, editorDurham, N.C. Duke University Press19941 online resource (353 p.)New Americanists"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.0-8223-1493-2 0-8223-1478-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.New Americanists : revisionist interventions into the canon /Donald E. Pease --"Res Publica" of letters /Michael Warner --Rationale for "the American romance" /John McWilliams --Scarcity, subjectivity, and Emerson /Wai-chee Dimock --Hearing narrative voices in Melville's "Pierre" /Priscilla Wald --Rhetorical use and abuse of fiction : eating books in late nineteenth-century America /Steven Mailloux --Maternal discourse and the romance of self-possession in Kate Chopin's "the Awakening" /Ivy Schweitzer --Realism, ideology, and the novel in America (1886-1896) : changing perspectives in the work of Mark Twain, W. D. Howells, and Henry James /Robert Weimann --American literature and the new historicism : the example of Frederick Douglas /Gregory S. Jay --"Ours by the law of nature" : romance and independents on Mark Twain's river /Howard Horwitz --Cataloging the creatures of the deep : "Billy Budd, sailor" and the rise of sociology /Susan Mizruchi --Violence, revolution, and the cost of freedom : John Brown and W. E. B. DuBois /William E. Cain.Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably demonstrates, that consensus was built upon the repression of the voices and historical contexts of subordinated social groups as well as literary works themselves, works both outside and within the traditional canon. This book is an effort to recover those lost voices. Engaging New Historicist, neo-Marxist, poststructuralist, and other literary practices, this volume marks important shifts in the organizNew Americanists.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismTheory, etcLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLiterature and historyUnited StatesCanon (Literature)HistoricismAmerican literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Literature and societyHistoryLiterature and historyCanon (Literature)Historicism.813/.309Pease Donald E1487400NcDNcDBOOK9910777988803321Revisionary interventions into the Americanist canon3815316UNINA