Modern American reading practices
Subtitle: between aesthetics and history
By: Phillip Goldstein.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Foucault, Michel, -- 1926-1984 -- Influence; American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Criticism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Books and reading -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Books and reading -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Literature -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States -- History; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Modern American reading practices : between aesthetics and history; title: Aesthetic theory : from Marxist critique to cultural history; title: Aesthetics and reading : between theory and history; title: Gothic romances and the modern humanities : the changing status of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; title: The adventures of Huckleberry Finn : from liberal realism to multiculturalism; title: Richard Wright's Native son : between naturalist protest and modernist liberation; title: Identity and convention in Faulkner's Light in August and Morrison's Jazz; title: The politics of Sara Paretsky's detective fiction; title: From aesthetics to reading practices.