The New American studies : essays from Representations /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1991]
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| Series: | Representations books ;
5. |
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Table of Contents:
- Franklin and the letters of the republic / Michael Warner
- The death of the lady (novelist) : Wharton's House of mirth / Elaine Showalter
- Hawthorne's A-morality of compromise / Sacvan Bercovitch
- Democratic social space : Whitman, Melville, and the promise of American transparency / Philip Fisher
- Mark Twain and Homer Plessy / Eric J. Sundquist
- Sparing the rod : discipline and fiction in antebellum America / Richard H. Brodhead
- An American tragedy, or the promise of American life / Walter Benn Michaels
- Representing grief : Emerson's "experience" / Sharon Cameron
- Bodily bonds : the intersecting rhetorics of feminism and abolition / Karen Sánchez-Eppler
- "The gentle boy from the dangerous classes" : pederasty, domesticity, and capitalism in Horatio Alger / Michael Moon.
- Albums of war : on reading Civil War photographs / Alan Trachtenberg
- The trope of a new negro and the reconstruction of the image of the Black / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- "The sword became a flashing vision" : D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation / Michael Rogin.