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| Named Person: | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Carlos Rowe |
| ISBN: | 0231058942 9780231058940 0231058950 9780231058957 |
| OCLC Number: | 34876092 |
| Description: | xiv, 302 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. At Emerson's Tomb -- 2. "Hamlet's Task": Emerson's Political Writings -- 3. Antebellum Slavery and Modern Criticism: Edgar Allan Poe's Pym and "The Purloined Letter" -- 4. A Critique of Ideology: Herman Melville's Pierre -- 5. Between Politics and Poetics: Frederick Douglass' Narrative of the Life of an American Slave, Written by Himself -- 6. Reconstructing The Family: Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- 7. The Body Poetic: Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps -- 8. Fatal Speculations - Murder, Money, and Manners: Mark Twain's The Gilded Age and Pudd'nhead Wilson -- 9. The Politics of Innocence: Henry James' The American -- 10. The Economics of The Body: Kate Chopin's The Awakening -- 11. The African-American Voice: William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses -- 12. Revivals. |
| Responsibility: | John Carlos Rowe. |
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