Emerson's ghosts : literature, politics, and the making of Americanists
This study examines the way influential 20th century critics have understood and deployed Emerson as part of their own larger projects aimed at reconceiving America
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (ix, 194 pages)
9780198042822, 0198042825
190864472
Table of Contents ; Preface ; Chapter 1. The Haunting of American Literature ; Chapter 2. Emerson in the Gilded Age ; Chapter 3. How to Dismantle American Culture: Van Wyck Brooks and Oppositional Criticism ; Chapter 4. F. O. Matthiessen and the Tragedy of the American Scholar ; Chapter 5. Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness ; Chapter 6. Sacvan Bercovitch as "American" Scholar ; Chapter 7. Emerson's Ghosts ; End Notes ; Bibliography
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010