The New American Studies
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The New American Studies

Essays from Representations

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eBook - ePub

The New American Studies

Essays from Representations

About this book

In The New American Studies a new generation of Americanists reflects on a society of change and changing alliances. American life is here valued for its capacity for compromise and negotiation, its openness to new actors and fresh scripts.
In The New American Studies a new generation of Americanists reflects on a society of change and changing alliances. American life is here valued for its capacity for compromise and negotiation, its openness to new actors and fresh scripts.

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9780520327375
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. PHILIP FISHER Introduction: The New American Studies
  5. PART 1 Authors, Careers, and the Transitions between Phases of Culture
  6. MICHAEL WARNER Franklin and the Letters of the Republic
  7. ELAINE SHOWALTER The Death of the Lady (Novelist): Wharton’s House of Mirth
  8. PART 2 Historicization and the Politics of Culture within Classic Texts
  9. SACVAN BERCOVITCH Hawthorne’s A-Morality of Compromise
  10. PHILIP FISHER Democratic Social Space: Whitman, Melville, and the Promise of American Transparency
  11. ERIC J. SUNDQUIST Mark Twain and Homer Plessy
  12. PART 3 How Rhetorics Emerge within Arrays of Texts
  13. RICHARD H. BRODHEAD Sparing the Rod: Discipline and Fiction in Antebellum America
  14. WALTER BENN MICHAELS An American Tragedy, or the Promise of American Life
  15. PART 4 Norms of Representation: The Fusion and Replacement of Rhetorics
  16. SHARON CAMERON Representing Grief: Emerson’s “Experience”
  17. KAREN SÁNCHEZ-EPPLER Bodily Bonds: The Intersecting Rhetorics of Feminism and Abolition
  18. MICHAEL MOON “The Gentle Boy from the Dangerous Classes”: Pederasty, Domesticity, and Capitalism in Horatio Alger
  19. PART 5 Reading Images: The Civil War and the Reconstruction of Memory
  20. ALAN TRACHTENBERG Albums of War: On Reading Civil War Photographs
  21. HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. The Trope of a New Negro and the Reconstruction of the Image of the Black
  22. MICHAEL ROGIN “The Sword Became a Flashing Vision”: D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation
  23. CONTRIBUTORS
  24. INDEX