Surface and depth : the quest for legibility in American culture
The idea of a common American culture is in retreat; arguments emphasizing difference have discredited the grand synthetic studies that marginalized groups and perspectives at odds with the master narrative. This work is an attempt to revitalize an interpretive overview
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xvi, 217 pages)
9780198035879, 9780195157765, 9781280502774, 9780199787784, 019803587X, 0195157761, 1280502770, 0199787786
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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
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