The American ideal : literary history as a worldly activity / Peter Carafiol
New York : Oxford University Press, 1991. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #432097
ISBN: 0195067657
Physical description; 212 p. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-205) and index. Contents; Contents; Introduction; Part 1. The Problem of American Literary Scholarship; Part 2. Reading the Tradition: The Rhetoric of Transcendentalist Scholarship; Part 3. Time and Textuality; Between Metaphor and Metaphysics: Reading Emerson as ""Onward Thinking""; Writing in/as History: Thoreau's Week; Part 4. American Literary Scholarship for the Twentieth Century; Notes; Index. Subjects; American literature History and criticism Theory, etc. National characteristics, American, in literature. Criticism United States History. Criticism United States 20th century History. USA. United States. Literature History.
Price: €60.00