by Karen L. Kilcup
University of Iowa Press, 1999
Paper: 978-0-87745-689-6 | Cloth: 978-0-87745-688-9 | eISBN: 978-1-58729-287-3
Library of Congress Classification PS147.S67 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.99287

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Recognizing that masculine literary tradition can include marginalized male writers as well as canonized female writers and that traditions themselves change over time, the essays in this insightful and coherent collection also explore the investment of the writers, as well as ninetieth- and twentieth-century readers, in canon creation. As it reconstructs conversations between these earlier authors and initiates new dialogues for today’s readers, Soft Canons offers provocative reconceptualizations of American literary and cultural history.