Emerson's ghosts literature, politics, and the making of Americanists
Emerson's Ghosts examines the way in which twentieth-century critics have constructed Emerson as part of their larger projects of reconceiving America. The book includes previously unpublished material, original research, and interviews with students and colleagues, on such figures as VanWyck B...
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New York :
Oxford University Press
2007
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991003482819708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of Contents:
- Haunting of American literature
- Emerson in the Gilded Age
- How to dismantle American culture : Van Wyck Brooks and oppositional criticism
- F.O. Matthiessen and the tragedy of the American scholar
- Perry Miller's errand into the wilderness
- Sacvan Bercovitch as "American" scholar
- Emerson's ghosts.
