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Emerson’s Ghosts : Literature, Politics, And The Making Of Americanists

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Randall FullerPublication Details
BookOxford University Press2007Links
Description
A work of American literary history, Emerson’s Ghosts is also a fine-grained study of how the relationship between a scholar’s individual perspective and prevailing cultural conditions merge together to impel critics to redirect the course of a present moment - often experienced as disappointing and unfulfilled - toward a desired future. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS1637.3 .F86 2007 AVAILABLE
Alfred Kazin : A Biography

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Richard M. CookPublication Details
BookYale University Press2007Links
Description
Born in 1915 to barely literate Jewish immigrants in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, Alfred Kazin rose from near poverty to become a dominant figure in twentieth-century literary criticism and one of America?s last great men of letters. Drawing on the personal journals Kazin kept for over 60 years, private correspondence, and numerous conversations with Kazin, he uncovers the full story of the lonely, stuttering boy from Jewish Brownsville who became a pioneering critic and influential cultural commentator. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS29.K38 A3 2007 AVAILABLE
Black Heart : The Moral Life Of Recent African American Letters

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Phillip RichardsPublication Details
BookPeter Lang2006Links
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Black Heart is a provocative and polemical critique of African American literary studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Richards undertakes to recover the procedures by which cultural and moral value may be recovered for black literary culture and to establish the possibilities for a new humanism in African American writing and literary culture. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS153.N5 R53 2006 AVAILABLE
The Master And The Dean : The Literary Criticism Of Henry James And William Dean Howells
Feminism And The Politics Of Literary Reputation : The Example Of Erica Jong

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Charlotte TemplinPublication Details
BookUniversity Press of Kansas1995Description
Soon after its publication in 1973, Fear of Flying brought Erica Jong immense popular success and media fame. In this carefully researched study augmented by personal interviews with Jong, Templin assembles and analyzes the medley of responses to Jong’s books by reviewers, critics, writers, academics, and the media–by liberals, conservatives, and feminists. The first book to make a detailed examination of the reputation of a woman writer, Feminism and the Politics of Literary Reputation provides an excellent case study for the literary reception of women writers within a broad cultural context. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3560.O56 Z89 1995 AVAILABLE
Charles Dickens In Cyberspace : The Afterlife Of The Nineteenth Century In Postmodern Culture

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Jay ClaytonPublication Details
BookOxford University Press2003Description
In Charles Dickens in Cyberspace nineteenth-century figures–Jane Austen, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Ada Lovelace, Joseph Paxton, Mary Shelley, and Mary Somerville–meet a lively group of counterparts from today: Andrea Barrett, Greg Bear, Peter Carey, Helene Cixous, Alfonso Cuaron, William Gibson, Donna Haraway, David Lean, Richard Powers, Salman Rushdie, Ridley Scott, Susan Sontag, Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, and Tom Stoppard. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR451 .C58 2003 AVAILABLE
Fitzgerald-Wilson-Hemingway : Language And Experience
Death Of A Nation : American Culture And The End Of Exceptionalism

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David W. Noble ; foreword by George LipsitzPublication Details
BookUniversity of Minnesota Press2002Description
In the 1940s, American thought experienced a cataclysmic paradigm shift. Before then, national ideology was shaped by American exceptionalism and bourgeois nationalism: elites saw themselves as the children of a homogeneous nation standing outside the history and culture of the Old World. While Noble illustrates the challenges that the paradigm shift created, he also suggests solutions that will help scholars avoid romanticized and reductive approaches toward the study of American culture in the future. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS78 .N63 2002 AVAILABLE
Left Intellectuals & Popular Culture In Twentieth-century America

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Paul R. GormanPublication Details
BookUniversity of North Carolina Press1996Description
Since the late nineteenth century, American intellectuals have consistently criticized the mass arts, charging that entertainments ranging from popular theater, motion pictures, and dance halls to hit records, romance novels, and television are harmful to the public. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E169.1 .G677 1996 AVAILABLE
Scorned Literature : Essays On The History And Criticism Of Popular Mass-produced Fiction In America

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edited by Lydia Cushman Schurman and Deidre Johnson ; foreword by Madeleine B. SternPublication Details
BookGreenwood Press2002Description
Many works now considered classics were scorned by critics when they were first published. This book examines the growing respect given to American fiction that was scorned by cultural gatekeepers such as librarians and educators, though these works were widely read by the American public. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS374.P63 S36 2002 AVAILABLE
John Steinbeck And The Critics

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John DitskyPublication Details
BookCamden House2000Description
This work by a prominent Steinbeck scholar begins with a study of the novelist’s early celebrity in the 1930s and 1940s. Ditsky shows that by the late 1940s there was some falling off in Steinbeck’s critical reputation, and yet that is also the period in which the ‘first generation’ of Steinbeck critics did their first work: seminal commentary by Peter Lisca, Warren French, and Joseph Fontenrose. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3537.T3234 Z6278 2000 AVAILABLE
Does Literary Studies Have A Future?

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Eugene GoodheartPublication Details
BookUniversity of Wisconsin Press1999Description
Taking aim at culture warriors on the left and the right, Goodheart provides a succinct and timely assessment of the current state and future of literary studies in the United States. Exploring the current state and future of literary studiens in the U.S., from the perspective of a seasoned literary scholar, Goodheart provides a succinct and timely assessment. Calling for a middle ground that acknowledges both the role of tradition and of new approaches to literature, Goodheart calls for a dialogue between alienated camps, and an alternative to the dogmatism that threatens the future of literary studies. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN99.U5 G65 1999 AVAILABLE
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