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200 10$aCreating American civilization$b[electronic resource] $ea genealogy of American literature as an academic discipline /$fDavid R. Shumway
210   $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc1994
215   $a1 online resource (424 p.)
225 1 $aAmerican culture ;$vv. 11
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 361-389) and index.
327   $aContents; 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; F
327   $aGH; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
330   $aDavid 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 la
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