Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon

by Donald E. Pease

Book Overview

Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably demonstrates, that consensus was built upon the repression of the voices and historical contexts of subordinated social groups as well as literary works themselves, works both outside and within the traditional canon. This book is an effort to recover those lost...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822314932
• ISBN13: 9780822314936
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"