Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline
Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline
by David Shumway
University of Minnesota Press, 1994
Paper: 978-0-8166-2189-7
Library of Congress Classification PS41.S48 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.7073
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- Introduction: The History of a Discipline
- Part I.
- Beginnings
- 1.
- The Literary in America, 1890–1920
- 2.
- Preprofessional History and Criticism
- 3.
- English as a Discursive Practice
- Part II.
- Institutionalization
- 4.
- American Literature as a Discipline: Constituting the Object
- 5.
- Institutionalizing American Literature
- 6.
- American Literature in the Curriculum
- Part III.
- Creating American Civilization
- 7.
- The Triumph of the Aesthetic
- 8.
- Left Criticism and the New York Intellectuals
- 9.
- Civilization “Discovered”
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