Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon - 9780822314936

Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably demonstrates, that consensus was built upon the repression of the voices and historical contexts of subordinated social groups as well as literary works themselves, works both outside and within the traditional canon. This book is an effort to recover those lost voices. Engaging New Historicist, neo-Marxist, poststructuralist, and other literary practices, this volume marks important shifts in the organizing principles and self-understanding of the field of American Studies.
Originally published as a special issue of boundary 2, the essays gathered here discuss writers as diverse as Kate Chopin, Frederick Douglass, Emerson, Melville, W. D. Howells, Henry James, W. E. B. DuBois, and Mark Twain, plus the historical figure John Brown. Two major sections devoted to the theory of romance and to cultural-historical analyses emphasize the political perspective of "New Americanist" literary and cultural study.

Contributors. William E. Cain, Wai-chee Dimock, Howard Horwitz, Gregory S. Jay, Steven Mailloux, John McWilliams, Susan Mizruchi, Donald E. Pease, Ivy Schweitzer, Priscilla Wald, Michael Warner, Robert Weimann

Informazioni bibliografiche

• Titolo del Libro in lingua: Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon
• Lingua: English
• Autori :  Pease Donald E. (EDT) Warner Michael (CON) McWilliams John (CON) Dimock Wai Chee (CON)
• Editore: Duke Univ Pr
• Collana: Duke Univ Pr (Paperback)
• Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Giugno '94
• Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
• Argomenti :  American literature 19th century History and criticism Theory, etc Literature and society United States History 19th century Literature and history United States
• Dimensioni mm: 234 x 158 x 25
• ISBN-10: 0822314932
• EAN-13: 9780822314936