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Title: Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 by Jane Tompkins ISBN: 0-19-504119-4 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Summary: How is a "Classic Text" Made?
Comment: This is one of the books that started the new-historical feminist reinterpretation of books that suffer as "bestsellers" and "pulp" (often women's literature) as history (and a group of "insiders") decide what books go on to become "classics" and which do not. Tompkins reveals the historical and socio-political factors that affected Nathaniel Hawthorne's "classic" status and shows us why other authors, including Harriet Beecher Stowe and Susan Warner, slipped into relative obscurity and/or disfavor following their popularity during their lifetimes. She does not dispute the richness of Hawthorne's writing, rather points out that the "canon" changes over time, and the books that fall in or out are subject to individual and political pressures. For anyone who ever wondered "why aren't there more books by "women/minorities/--- fill in blank" in the canon, this book is AN explanation. Maybe not the only one-- but a good explanation in very accessible language.
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Title: The Feminization of American Culture by Ann Douglas ISBN: 0374525587 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 30 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville by David S. Reynolds ISBN: 0674065654 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1989 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Who Would Have Thought It? (Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage) by Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton, Rosaura Sanchez, Beatrice Pita, Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton ISBN: 1558850813 Publisher: Arte Publico Pr Pub. Date: November, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Woman's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and About Women in America, 1820-70 by Nina Baym ISBN: 025206285X Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref) Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America (The New Historicism, No 14) by Gilliam Brown, Gillian Brown ISBN: 0520080998 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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