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200 14$aThe unusable past $etheory and the study of American literature /$fRussell J. Reising
210  1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2003.
215   $a1 online resource (303 p.)
225 1 $aThe new accent series
300   $a"First published 1986"--T.p. verso.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $a""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""General editora???s preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The unused past: theorists of American literature and the problem of exclusivity""; ""An unusable past?""; ""What is an American author?""; ""American literature: out of space - out of time""; ""The consolation of criticism""; ""2 The problem of Puritan origins in literary history and theory""; ""Puritanism as tragic vision: Perry Miller""; ""Puritanism as allegory: Yvor Winters, Richard Chase, and Leslie Fiedler""
327   $a""Puritanism as rhetoric: Sacvan Bercovitch""""3 a???Nothing that is not there and the nothing that isa???: cultural theories of American literature""; ""Unreality in America: Lionel Trilling""; ""Parties of one: R. W. B. Lewis""; ""The romance of America: Richard Chase""; ""The apolitical unconscious: Leslie Fiedler""; ""An American fable: Leo Marx""; ""The Phelps farm revisited: cultural theorists on Huckleberry Finn""; ""4 American literature should not mean but be: self-reflexive theories of American literature""; ""D. H. Lawrence and American art-speech""
327   $a""New Criticism and the American Renaissance: F. O. Matthiessen""""Making the world safefor symbolism: Charles Feidelson, Jr""; ""Worlds elsewhere: Richard Poirier""; ""Myths of American origins: post-structuralism""; ""a???The worlda???s body'""; ""5 What is to be done?""; ""What is the American tradition?""; ""New directions""; ""The American scene""; ""6 Conclusion: the significance of Frederick Douglass""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""
410  0$aNew accents (Routledge (Firm))
606   $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc
606   $aCriticism$zUnited States$xHistory
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