Sacvan Bercovitch / Myra Jehlen (eds.)
Ideology and Classic American Literature
Herausgeber: Bercovitch, Sacvan; Jehlen, Myra; Gelpi, Albert
Sacvan Bercovitch / Myra Jehlen (eds.)
Ideology and Classic American Literature
Herausgeber: Bercovitch, Sacvan; Jehlen, Myra; Gelpi, Albert
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For more than a decade, Americanists have been concerned with the problem of ideology, and have undertaken a broad reassessment of American literature and culture. This volume brings together some of the best work in this area.
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For more than a decade, Americanists have been concerned with the problem of ideology, and have undertaken a broad reassessment of American literature and culture. This volume brings together some of the best work in this area.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 464
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2004
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
- Gewicht: 748g
- ISBN-13: 9780521273091
- ISBN-10: 0521273099
- Artikelnr.: 21949783
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 464
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2004
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
- Gewicht: 748g
- ISBN-13: 9780521273091
- ISBN-10: 0521273099
- Artikelnr.: 21949783
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: beyond transcendence Myra Jehlen
Part I. Reassessments: 2. Symbol and idea in Virgin Land Henry Nash Smith
3. Pastoralism in America Leo Marx
4. Myth and the production of history Richard Slotkin
5. American criticism left and right Gerald Graff
Part II. Perspectives: 6. The novel and the middle class in America Myra Jehlen
7. Figurations for a new American literary history Houston A. Baker, Jr.
8. American studies as a cultural program Alan Trachtenberg
9. Reification and American literature Carolyn Porter
Part III. Texts: 10. Mysteries of the city: a reading of Poe's The Man of the Crowd Robert H. Byer
11. The politics of The Scarlet Letter Jonathan Arac
12. Sentimental power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the politics of literary history Jane Tompkins
13. Walden and the 'curse of trade' Michael T. Gilmore
Part IV. The Example of Melville: 14. Melville's economy of language Paul Royster
15. Art, religion, and the problem of authority in Pierre Emory Elliott
16. The hive of subtlety: 'Benito Cereno' and the liberal hero James H. Kavanagh
17. Melville and cultural persuasion Donald E. Pease
18. Afterword Sacvan Bercovitch
Selected bibliography
Index.
1. Introduction: beyond transcendence Myra Jehlen
Part I. Reassessments: 2. Symbol and idea in Virgin Land Henry Nash Smith
3. Pastoralism in America Leo Marx
4. Myth and the production of history Richard Slotkin
5. American criticism left and right Gerald Graff
Part II. Perspectives: 6. The novel and the middle class in America Myra Jehlen
7. Figurations for a new American literary history Houston A. Baker, Jr.
8. American studies as a cultural program Alan Trachtenberg
9. Reification and American literature Carolyn Porter
Part III. Texts: 10. Mysteries of the city: a reading of Poe's The Man of the Crowd Robert H. Byer
11. The politics of The Scarlet Letter Jonathan Arac
12. Sentimental power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the politics of literary history Jane Tompkins
13. Walden and the 'curse of trade' Michael T. Gilmore
Part IV. The Example of Melville: 14. Melville's economy of language Paul Royster
15. Art, religion, and the problem of authority in Pierre Emory Elliott
16. The hive of subtlety: 'Benito Cereno' and the liberal hero James H. Kavanagh
17. Melville and cultural persuasion Donald E. Pease
18. Afterword Sacvan Bercovitch
Selected bibliography
Index.
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: beyond transcendence Myra Jehlen
Part I. Reassessments: 2. Symbol and idea in Virgin Land Henry Nash Smith
3. Pastoralism in America Leo Marx
4. Myth and the production of history Richard Slotkin
5. American criticism left and right Gerald Graff
Part II. Perspectives: 6. The novel and the middle class in America Myra Jehlen
7. Figurations for a new American literary history Houston A. Baker, Jr.
8. American studies as a cultural program Alan Trachtenberg
9. Reification and American literature Carolyn Porter
Part III. Texts: 10. Mysteries of the city: a reading of Poe's The Man of the Crowd Robert H. Byer
11. The politics of The Scarlet Letter Jonathan Arac
12. Sentimental power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the politics of literary history Jane Tompkins
13. Walden and the 'curse of trade' Michael T. Gilmore
Part IV. The Example of Melville: 14. Melville's economy of language Paul Royster
15. Art, religion, and the problem of authority in Pierre Emory Elliott
16. The hive of subtlety: 'Benito Cereno' and the liberal hero James H. Kavanagh
17. Melville and cultural persuasion Donald E. Pease
18. Afterword Sacvan Bercovitch
Selected bibliography
Index.
1. Introduction: beyond transcendence Myra Jehlen
Part I. Reassessments: 2. Symbol and idea in Virgin Land Henry Nash Smith
3. Pastoralism in America Leo Marx
4. Myth and the production of history Richard Slotkin
5. American criticism left and right Gerald Graff
Part II. Perspectives: 6. The novel and the middle class in America Myra Jehlen
7. Figurations for a new American literary history Houston A. Baker, Jr.
8. American studies as a cultural program Alan Trachtenberg
9. Reification and American literature Carolyn Porter
Part III. Texts: 10. Mysteries of the city: a reading of Poe's The Man of the Crowd Robert H. Byer
11. The politics of The Scarlet Letter Jonathan Arac
12. Sentimental power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the politics of literary history Jane Tompkins
13. Walden and the 'curse of trade' Michael T. Gilmore
Part IV. The Example of Melville: 14. Melville's economy of language Paul Royster
15. Art, religion, and the problem of authority in Pierre Emory Elliott
16. The hive of subtlety: 'Benito Cereno' and the liberal hero James H. Kavanagh
17. Melville and cultural persuasion Donald E. Pease
18. Afterword Sacvan Bercovitch
Selected bibliography
Index.