Readings at the edge of literature
By: Myra Jehlen.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I "Imitate Jesus and Socrates" The Making of a Good American 13; title: 2 J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur AMonarcho-Anarchist in; title: Revolutionary America 32; title: 3 The Novel and the Middle Class in America 50; title: 4 The Family Militant Domesticity versus Slavery in; title: Uncle Tom's Cabin 68; title: 5 Banned in Concord Adventures ofHuckleberryFinn and Classic; title: American Literature 84; title: 6 The Ties that Bind Race and Sex in Puddn'head Wilson io6; title: 7 Archimedes and the Paradox of Feminist Criticism 122; title: 8 Why Did the European Cross the Ocean? 149; title: 9 History before the Fact The Underdetermined John Smith 164; title: 10 History beside the Fact WhatWe Learn from A True and ExactHistory; title: ofBarbadoes 179; title: 11 An Empire of One's Own Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out 192; title: 12 Guggenheim in Bilbao 204.