Recovering American literature / [print]
Peter Shaw.
- first Elephant pbk. edition.
- Chicago : I.R. Dee, (c)1995.
- 203 pages ; 21 cm.
"Elephant paperbacks."
The scarlet letter : the heretical temptation -- Moby Dick : cutting a classic down to ideological size -- Billy Budd : criticism as assault on authority -- Huckleberry Finn : the return of the genteel tradition -- The Bostonians : refuting human nature -- Typee : civilization and its malcontents.
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American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--19th century Criticism--History--United States--20th century. Literature and history--History.--United States Canon (Literature)