Surface and depth : the quest for legibility in American culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gilmore, Michael T.
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:	American prose literature > History and criticism. Social problems in literature. National characteristics, American, in literature. American fiction > History and criticism. Literature and society > United States. United States > In literature. United States > Civilization. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Prologue: Freud's night out
Three foundational documents and their indelibility
Majoritarian and racial tyranny: Tocquevill and Beaumont
Popular forms : Cooper and the western ; Poe and the detective story ; Fanny Fern and the celebrity novel
The nineteenth-century canon: hidden in plain sight : The scarlet letter ; Melville's Moby-dick ; Thoreau's Walden ; James's The American
Freud and film redux
Twentieth-century classics and new technologies of legibility : Wharton's Summer ; Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby as a "modernist" western ; Hemingway's The sun also rises
Race/erasure: Douglass to Roth
Equivocal epilogue: total visibility in utopia and dystopia.