American Literature and the Academy
Subtitle: The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession
Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
Published: January 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780812280319
Subjects: Theory, etc; Scholarly publishing; American Literature (General); Scholarship And Learning; Literary Criticism; United States; American literature; Education; English; International institutions; Literary studies: general; Literature: Texts; USA; Criticism; History; History and criticism
First sentence: Walt Whitman wrote in 1891, the year before his death, that "to have great heroic poetry we need great readers-a heroic appetite and audience."