Predicting the past
Subtitle: the paradoxes of American literary history
By: Michael Boyden.
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9789058677310
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: The pre-history of American literature  : early prospects (1850-1910); title: Live and let live : debating contemporary literature (1890-1930); title: The uses of language : literary polyvocality and ethnic continuity (1880-1950); title: Precursors and exemplars  : genealogies in American literary history.