Title: Discovering difference : contemporary essays in American culture /
Authors: Lohmann, Christoph K.
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: American literature History and criticism Theory, etc.; Cultural pluralism; United States Civilization.
Contents: Why did the European cross the ocean? A seventeenth-century riddle / Myra Jehlen -- American literature discovers Columbus / Terence Martin -- Charlotte Temple's remains / Eva Cherniavsky -- The underheard reader in the writing of the old Southwest / James H. Justus -- Poe, plagiarism, and the prescriptive right of the mob / Jonathan Elmer -- Hawthorne and the making of the middle class / Michael T. Gilmore -- "Margaret Garner" : a Cincinnati story / Cynthia Griffin Wolff -- Antinomies of liberalism : the politices of "belief" and the project of Americanist criticism / Cary Wolfe --