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Leading scholars discuss strategies and methodology in American literary studies.

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Introduction: What Is Method and Why DoesIt Matter?Part One: History and Literature in America 1 Domesticating Virtue: Coquettes and Revolutionaries in Young America2 Vanishing Americans: Gender, Empire, and New Historicism3 Seeing Sentiment: Photography, Race, and the Innocent Eye4 The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill Part Two: Reading "Culture" 5 Mass Culture/Popular Culture: Notes for a Humanist's Primer6 Dancing for Eels at Catherine Market 7 AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signi?cation8 The Occult of True Black Womanhood Part Three: Nationalism Reconsidered9 The Mass Public and the Mass Subject10 Traditional Narrative: Contemporary Uses, Historical Perspectives 11 The Stakes of Textual Border-Crossing: Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach in Sinocentric, Asian American, and Feminist Critical Practices12 Americanization: What Are We Talking About?

American Literary Studies A Methodological

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      Publisher: New York University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/12/2002
      ISBN13: 9780814722169, 978-0814722169
      ISBN10: 0814722164

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Leading scholars discuss strategies and methodology in American literary studies.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: What Is Method and Why DoesIt Matter?Part One: History and Literature in America 1 Domesticating Virtue: Coquettes and Revolutionaries in Young America2 Vanishing Americans: Gender, Empire, and New Historicism3 Seeing Sentiment: Photography, Race, and the Innocent Eye4 The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill Part Two: Reading "Culture" 5 Mass Culture/Popular Culture: Notes for a Humanist's Primer6 Dancing for Eels at Catherine Market 7 AIDS, Homophobia, and Biomedical Discourse: An Epidemic of Signi?cation8 The Occult of True Black Womanhood Part Three: Nationalism Reconsidered9 The Mass Public and the Mass Subject10 Traditional Narrative: Contemporary Uses, Historical Perspectives 11 The Stakes of Textual Border-Crossing: Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach in Sinocentric, Asian American, and Feminist Critical Practices12 Americanization: What Are We Talking About?

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