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At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature

By John Carlos Rowe

Book information

Year
1996
ISBN
9780231058940, 0231058942, 9780231500470
LCC
PS217.P64 R69 1997
Open Library ID
OL10195687M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1115669 bytes)
Pages
302\319
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Representative works are interpreted in light of the two great political movements of the nineteenth century: the abolition of slavery and the women's rights movement. By reexamining Emerson, Poe, Melville, Douglass, Walt Whitman, Chopin, and Faulkner and others, Rowe assesses the degree to which major writers' attitudes toward race, class, and gender contribute to specific political reforms in nineteenth and twentieth-century American culture.

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