UID:
almahu_9948592180102882
Format:
1 online resource (3 v. (xxi, 1424 p.)) :
,
ill.
ISBN:
9780684314921 (electronic book)
,
0684314924 (electronic book)
Series Statement:
Gale eBooks
Content:
Presents literature not as a simple inventory of authors or titles but rather as a historical and cultural field viewed from a wide array of contemporary perspectives. The set, which is "new historicist" in its approach to literary criticism, endorses the notion that not only does history affect literature, but literature itself informs history.
Note:
v. 1. abolitionist writing to gothic fiction -- v. 2. Harpers ferry to quakers -- v. 3. "The Raven" to "Young Goodman Brown" and index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: American history through literature, 1820-1870. Detroit, Mich. : Charles Scribner's Sons, c2006 ISBN 9780684314600
Language:
English
URL:
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URL:
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