Re-appraisals : some commonsense readings in American literature /
Corrective pieces on such American writers as Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Twain, and Salinger to protest the misinterpretations arrived at by critics.
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New York,
Norton
[1965]
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Table of Contents:
- American literature as a subject
- Emerson : the rejected leader
- The Hawthorne myth : a protest
- Melville and the American romance
- Twain and Whitman : the problem of 'American' literature
- Henry James and the great tradition
- Faulkner : the triumph of rhetoric
- Franny and Zooey
- American rococo : Salinger and Nabokov
- Studies in classic American literature.