03379nam 2200649Ia 450 991081309020332120230421043953.00-8166-8482-0(CKB)1000000000347202(EBL)310283(OCoLC)476093548(SSID)ssj0000131858(PQKBManifestationID)11135633(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000131858(PQKBWorkID)10027785(PQKB)11088295(OCoLC)191818109(MdBmJHUP)muse38993(MiAaPQ)EBC310283(Au-PeEL)EBL310283(CaPaEBR)ebr10159347(CaONFJC)MIL522444(EXLCZ)99100000000034720219930805d1994 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCreating American civilization[electronic resource] a genealogy of American literature as an academic discipline /David R. ShumwayMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc19941 online resource (424 p.)American culture ;v. 11Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-2189-6 0-8166-2188-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-389) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The History of a Discipline; Part I. Beginnings; 1. The Literary in America, 1890-1920; 2. Preprofessional History and Criticism; 3. English as a Discursive Practice; Part II. Institutionalization; 4. American Literature as a Discipline: Constituting the Object; 5. Institutionalizing American Literature; 6. American Literature in the Curriculum; Part III. Creating American Civilization; 7. The Triumph of the Aesthetic; 8. Left Criticism and the New York Intellectuals; 9. Civilization ""Discovered""; Epilogue: A Trailer; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; FGH; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; YDavid R. Shumway contends that American literature is the product of study - the deliberate invention of a discipline seeking to define the character and legitimate the existence of a specifically American civilization. He traces the various reconstitutions of American literature by examining the discipline's practices and techniques, discourses and structures, paradigms and unstated assumptions.This genealogy begins around 1890, when American literature as defined by institutions outside the academy, such as magazines and publishing houses, acquired much of the ideology it would display in laAmerican culture (Minneapolis, Minn.) ;11.American literatureStudy and teachingUnited StatesHistoryAmerican literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etcCanon (Literature)United StatesCivilizationStudy and teachingAmerican literatureStudy and teachingHistory.American literatureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Canon (Literature)810/.7/073Shumway David R869823MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813090203321Creating American civilization4105287UNINA