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New York : Methuen, 1986. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xii, 290 pages ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-286) and index. Contents; TABLE OF CONTENTS -- The unused past: theorists of American literature and the problem of exclusivity -- An unusable past? -- What is an American author? -- American literature: out of space, out of time -- The consolation of criticism -- The problem of Puritan origins in literary history and theory -- Puritanism as tragic vision: Perry Miller -- Puritanism as allegory: Yvor Winters, Richard Chase, and Leslie Fiedler -- Puritanism as rhetoric: Sacvan Bercovitch -- ""Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is"": cultural theories of American literature -- Unreality in America: Lionel Trilling -- Parties of one: R.W.B. Lewis -- The romance of America: Richard Chase -- The…
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- Title The Unusable Past: Theory and the Study of American Literature
- Author Russell Reising
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 290
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Methuen Publishing, New York
- Date January 1987
- ISBN 9780416013115 / 0416013112
- Library of Congress subjects American literature - History and criticism, Criticism - United States - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86005372
- Dewey Decimal Code 810.9
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