Reconstructing American literary history /
edited by Sacvan Bercovitch.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986.
- xii, 351 p. ; 22 cm.
- Harvard English studies ; 13 .
Includes bibliographies.
"We hold these truths" / Robert A. Ferguson -- Popular fiction and critical values / Morris Dickstein -- Origin and authority / Barbara Packer -- Benito Cereno and new world slavery / Eric J. Sundquist -- The American sexual poetics of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Appearing and disappearing in public / Philip Fisher -- Corporate fiction / Walter Benn Michaels -- On the idealogies of poetic modernism, 1890-1913 / Frank Lentricchia -- A critique of pure pluralism / Werner Sollors -- American poet-critics since 1945 / Robert von Hallberg -- Distrust of the reader in Afro-American narratives / Robert B. Stepto -- Collage or miracle / Wendy Steiner.
0674750853 (dalk. paper) 0674750861 (alk. paper)
85021972
American literature--History and criticism.
PS92 / .R4 1986
810.9 / REC
Includes bibliographies.
"We hold these truths" / Robert A. Ferguson -- Popular fiction and critical values / Morris Dickstein -- Origin and authority / Barbara Packer -- Benito Cereno and new world slavery / Eric J. Sundquist -- The American sexual poetics of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Appearing and disappearing in public / Philip Fisher -- Corporate fiction / Walter Benn Michaels -- On the idealogies of poetic modernism, 1890-1913 / Frank Lentricchia -- A critique of pure pluralism / Werner Sollors -- American poet-critics since 1945 / Robert von Hallberg -- Distrust of the reader in Afro-American narratives / Robert B. Stepto -- Collage or miracle / Wendy Steiner.
0674750853 (dalk. paper) 0674750861 (alk. paper)
85021972
American literature--History and criticism.
PS92 / .R4 1986
810.9 / REC