LEADER 04241nam 22008174a 450 001 9910968180003321 005 20080321091817.0 010 $a9786612919817 010 $a9781282919815 010 $a1282919814 010 $a9780822382645 010 $a0822382644 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822382645 035 $a(CKB)1000000000757566 035 $a(EBL)1167723 035 $a(OCoLC)850215194 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000394574 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11242553 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000394574 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10425287 035 $a(PQKB)10245880 035 $a(OCoLC)191222351 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1167723 035 $a191222351 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse80597 035 $a(DE-B1597)553803 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822382645 035 $a(OCoLC)1226679639 035 $a(Perlego)1467058 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000757566 100 $a20080125d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aRevisionary interventions into the Americanist canon /$fDonald E. Pease, editor 210 $aDurham, N.C. $cDuke University Press$d1994 215 $a1 online resource (353 p.) 225 1 $aNew Americanists 300 $a"The text of this book originally was published without the present preface or index as vol. 17, no. 1 of Boundary 2"--T.p. verso. 311 08$a9780822314936 311 08$a0822314932 311 08$a9780822314783 311 08$a0822314789 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tNew Americanists : revisionist interventions into the canon /$rDonald E. Pease --$t"Res Publica" of letters /$rMichael Warner --$tRationale for "the American romance" /$rJohn McWilliams --$tScarcity, subjectivity, and Emerson /$rWai-chee Dimock --$tHearing narrative voices in Melville's "Pierre" /$rPriscilla Wald --$tRhetorical use and abuse of fiction : eating books in late nineteenth-century America /$rSteven Mailloux --$tMaternal discourse and the romance of self-possession in Kate Chopin's "the Awakening" /$rIvy Schweitzer -- 327 $tRealism, ideology, and the novel in America (1886-1896) : changing perspectives in the work of Mark Twain, W. D. Howells, and Henry James /$rRobert Weimann --$tAmerican literature and the new historicism : the example of Frederick Douglas /$rGregory S. Jay --$t"Ours by the law of nature" : romance and independents on Mark Twain's river /$rHoward Horwitz --$tCataloging the creatures of the deep : "Billy Budd, sailor" and the rise of sociology /$rSusan Mizruchi --$tViolence, revolution, and the cost of freedom : John Brown and W. E. B. DuBois /$rWilliam E. Cain. 330 $aThroughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably demonstrates, that consensus was built upon the repression of the voices and historical contexts of subordinated social groups as well as literary works themselves, works both outside and within the traditional canon. This book is an effort to recover those lost voices. Engaging New Historicist, neo-Marxist, poststructuralist, and other literary practices, this volume marks important shifts in the organiz 410 0$ae-Duke books scholarly collection. 410 0$aNew Americanists. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiterature and history$zUnited States 606 $aCanon (Literature) 606 $aHistoricism 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and history 615 0$aCanon (Literature) 615 0$aHistoricism. 676 $a813/.309 676 $a813.309 701 $aPease$b Donald E$01796189 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910968180003321 996 $aRevisionary interventions into the Americanist canon$94366187 997 $aUNINA