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At Emerson's tomb : the politics of classic American literature

Author: John Carlos Rowe
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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