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Table of Contents
Preface vii
New Americanists: Revisionist Interventions in to the Canon / Donald E. Pease 1
The Res Publica of Letters / Michael Warner 38
The Rationale for "The American Romance" / John McWilliams 71
Scarcity, Subjectivity, and Emerson / Wai-chee Dimock 83
Hearing Narrative Voices in Melville's Pierre / Priscilla Wald 100
The Rhetorical Use and Abuse of Fiction: Eating Books in Late Nineteenth-Century American / Steven Mailloux 133
Maternal Discourse and the Romance of Self-Possession in Kate Chopin's The Awakening / Ivy Schweitzer 158
Realism, Ideology, and the Novel in American (1886-1896): Changing Perspectives in the Work of Mark Twain, W. D. Howells, and Henry James / Robert Weimann 189
American Literature and the New Historicism: The Example of Frederick Douglass / Gregory S. Jay 211
"Ours by the Law of Naure": Romance and Independents on Mark Twain's River / Howard Horwitz 243
Cataloging the Creatures of the Deep: "Billy Budd, Sailor" and the Rise of Sociology / Susan Misruchi 272
Violence, Revolution and the Cost of Freedom: John Brown and W. E. B. DuBois / WIlliam E. Cain 305
Contributors 331
Index 333

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      Publisher: Duke University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/06/1994
      ISBN13: 9780822314936, 978-0822314936
      ISBN10: 0822314932
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      Table of Contents
      Preface vii
      New Americanists: Revisionist Interventions in to the Canon / Donald E. Pease 1
      The Res Publica of Letters / Michael Warner 38
      The Rationale for "The American Romance" / John McWilliams 71
      Scarcity, Subjectivity, and Emerson / Wai-chee Dimock 83
      Hearing Narrative Voices in Melville's Pierre / Priscilla Wald 100
      The Rhetorical Use and Abuse of Fiction: Eating Books in Late Nineteenth-Century American / Steven Mailloux 133
      Maternal Discourse and the Romance of Self-Possession in Kate Chopin's The Awakening / Ivy Schweitzer 158
      Realism, Ideology, and the Novel in American (1886-1896): Changing Perspectives in the Work of Mark Twain, W. D. Howells, and Henry James / Robert Weimann 189
      American Literature and the New Historicism: The Example of Frederick Douglass / Gregory S. Jay 211
      "Ours by the Law of Naure": Romance and Independents on Mark Twain's River / Howard Horwitz 243
      Cataloging the Creatures of the Deep: "Billy Budd, Sailor" and the Rise of Sociology / Susan Misruchi 272
      Violence, Revolution and the Cost of Freedom: John Brown and W. E. B. DuBois / WIlliam E. Cain 305
      Contributors 331
      Index 333

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