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200 10$aSurface and depth$b[electronic resource] $ethe quest for legibility in American culture /$fMichael T. Gilmore
210   $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2003
215   $a1 online resource (234 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-19-515776-1 
311   $a0-19-978778-6 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCONTENTS; 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" Western
327   $aHemingway'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; W
330 8 $aThe 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.
606   $aAmerican prose literature$xHistory and criticism
606   $aSocial problems in literature
606   $aNational characteristics, American, in literature
606   $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism
606   $aLiterature and society$zUnited States
607   $aUnited States$xIn literature
607   $aUnited States$xCivilization
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aAmerican prose literature$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aSocial problems in literature.
615  0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature.
615  0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aLiterature and society
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