A new literary history of America / edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors.
A new literary history of America / edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors.
A new literary history of America / edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
Date
2009.
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G 2013/6806
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English
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Physical content
xxvii, 1095 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents
1507, the name "America" appears on a map / Toby Lester -- 1521, Mexico in America / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- 1536, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca / Ilan Stavans -- 1585, "Counterfeited according to the truth" / Michael Gaudio -- 1607, Fear and love in the Virginia colony / Adam Goodheart -- 1630, A...
1801, Jefferson's first inaugural address / Jan Ellen Lewis -- 1804, The matter of Haiti / Kaiama Glover -- 1809, Cupola of the world / Judith Richardson -- 1819, The Missouri crisis / John Stauffer -- 1820, Landscape with birds / Christoph Irmscher -- 1821, Sequoyah, the Cherokee syllabary / Lisa B...
1850, "The scarlet letter" / Bharati Mukherjee ; Margaret Fuller and the Transcendentalist movement / Lawrence Buell ; Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville / Clark Blaise -- 1851, "Moby-Dick" / Greil Marcus ; "Uncle Tom's Cabin" / Beverly Lowry -- 1852, Hawthorne's "Blithedale romance" and utopia...
1900, Henry Adams / T.J. Jackson Lears ; "The Wizard of Oz" / Gerald Early ; 1900, "Sister Carrie" [and] 1905, "The House of Mirth" / Farah Jasmine Griffin -- 1901, Charles W. Chesnutt, "The marrow of tradition" / John Edgar Wideman; 1901, 1903, The problem of the color line / Arnold Rampersad -- 19...
1950, "Damned busy painting" / T.J. Clark -- 1951, A poet among painters / Mark Ford ; "The Catcher in the Rye" / Gish Jen ; James Jones, "From Here to Eternity" / Lindsay Waters ; A soft voice / M. Lynn Weiss -- 1952, Elia Kazan and the blacklist in Hollywood / Michael Ventura ; C.L.R. James / Dona...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2009.
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Summary
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along--a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history....
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A new literary history of America / edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors.
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Author / Artists
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Harvard University Press reference library.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from REF N810.9/182.
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G 2013/6806
Record Identifier
74Vvy7M6amXg
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ISBN
0674035941 (alk. paper)
9780674035942 (alk. paper)
DDC
810.9
MMS ID
991016082279702626
