Representations
Subtitle: essays on literature and society
By: Steven Marcus.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism -- Addresses, essays, lectures.; English literature -- History and criticism -- Addresses, essays, lectures.; Literature and society.
Notes: Hunger and ideology.--Authority and obedience.--Snopes revisited.--Sinclair Lewis.--Stalky & Co.--Mt. Everest and the British national spirit.--Evelyn Waugh and the art of entertainment.--Three obsessed critics.--An ideal reviewer.--The limits of literary history.--Madness, literature, and society.--Awakening from the nightmare? Notes on the historical novel.--Literature and social theory: starting in with George Eliot.--Language into structure: Pickwick papers.--Freud and Dora: Story, history, case history.--Dashiell Hammett and the Continental Op.

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