Reconstructing American literary history
By: edited by Sacvan Bercovitch.
Contributors: Bercovitch, Sacvan.
Series: Harvard English studies ;; 13
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: "We hold these truths" / Robert A. Ferguson; title: Popular fiction and critical values / Morris Dickstein; title: Origin and authority / Barbara Packer; title: Benito Cereno and new world slavery / Eric J. Sundquist; title: The American sexual poetics of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson / Sandra M. Gilbert; title: Appearing and disappearing in public / Philip Fisher; title: Corporate fiction / Walter Benn Michaels; title: On the idealogies of poetic modernism, 1890-1913 / Frank Lentricchia; title: A critique of pure pluralism / Werner Sollors; title: American poet-critics since 1945 / Robert von Hallberg; title: Distrust of the reader in Afro-American narratives / Robert B. Stepto; title: Collage or miracle / Wendy Steiner.