Nationalism and literature : the politics of culture in Canada and the United States

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Nationalism and literature : the politics of culture in Canada and the United States

Sarah M. Corse

(Cambridge cultural social studies)

Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-203) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Sarah Corse's analysis of nearly two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a theory of national literatures. Demonstrating that national canon formation occurs in tandem with nation-building, and that canonical novels play a symbolic role in this, this 1996 book accounts for cross-national literary differences, addresses issues of mediation and representation in theories of 'reflection', and illuminates the historically constructed nature of the relationship between literature and the nation-state.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction: cultural fields and literary use
  • 2. Nation-building and the historical timing of a national literature in the United States
  • 3. Nation-building and the historical timing of a national literature in Canada
  • 4. The canonical novels: the politics of cultural nationalism
  • 5. The literary prize-winners: revision and renewal
  • 6. The bestsellers: the economics of publishing and the convergence of popular taste
  • 7. Literary meaning and cultural use
  • Appendices.

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