The Power of Historical Knowledge : : Narrating the Past in Hawthorne, James, and Dreiser / / Susan L. Mizruchi.
In this provocative study, Susan Mizruchi argues that the act of writing history is the key to the political concerns of American novelists. Using nineteenth-century theories of history as well as recent narratological models, she examines reconstructions of the past in The House of the Seven Gables...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1988 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- ONE. The Problem of History in American Literature
- TWO. The Problem of History in American Historiography
- THREE. From History To Gingerbread: Manufacturing a Republic in The House of the Seven Gables
- FOUR. The Politics of Temporality in The Bostonians
- FIVE. American Innocence and English Perils: The Treachery of Tales in The Wings of the Dove
- SIX. The Power of Mere Fable: Reconstructing the Past in An American Tragedy
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter