The New American studies : essays from Representations
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The New American studies : essays from Representations
(Representations books, 5)
University of California Press, c1991
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Representations
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In The New American Studies a new generation of Americanists reflects on a society of change and changing alliances. American life is here valued for its capacity for compromise and negotiation, its openness to new actors and fresh scripts.
Table of Contents
Michael Warner, Franklin and the Letters of the Republic Elaine Showalter, The Death of the Lady (Novelist): Wharton's "House of Mirth" Sacvan Bercovitch, Hawthorne's A-Morality of Compromise Philip Fisher, Democratic Social Space: Whitman, Melville, and the Promise of American Transparency Eric Sundquist, Mark Twain and Homer Plessy Richard Brodhead, Sparing the Rod: Discipline and Fiction in Antebellum America Walter Benn Michaels, An American Tragedy, or the Promise of American Life Sharon Cameron, Representing Grief: Emerson's "Experience" Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Bodily Bonds: The Intersecting Rhetorics of Feminism and Abolition Michael Moon, "The Gentle Boy from the Dangerous Classes": Pederasty, Domesticity, and Capitalism in Horatio Alger Alan Trachtenberg, Albums of War: On Reading Civil War Photographs Henry Louis Gates, The Trope of the New Negro and the Reconstruction of the Image of the Black Michael Rogin, "The Sword Became a Flashing Vision": D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation"
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