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Required reading : why our American classics matter now /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Delbanco, Andrew, 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Politics and literature > United States.
Literature and society > United States.
Books and reading > United States.
Liberalism in literature.
Democracy in literature.
Canon (Literature)
Table of Contents:
  • Melville's sacramental style
  • Thoreau faces death
  • The little woman who started the great war
  • The two Lincolns
  • Henry Adams and the end of the world
  • Thee short, unhappy life of Stephen Crane
  • Was Kate Chopin a feminist?
  • Lyrical Dreiser
  • What would Edith Wharton think?
  • The new Native Son
  • The political incorrectness of Zora Neale Hurston
  • Reading for pleasure.