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Surface and depth : the quest for legibility in American culture / Michael T. Gilmore.
Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.Description: xvi, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780195313246 (pbk.)
- PS366.S62 G55 2003
Contents:
Prologue: Freud's night out -- Three foundational documents and their indelibility -- Majoritarian and racial tyranny: Tocquevill and Beaumont -- Popular forms : Cooper and the western ; Poe and the detective story ; Fanny Fern and the celebrity novel -- The nineteenth-century canon: hidden in plain sight : The scarlet letter ; Melville's Moby-dick ; Thoreau's Walden ; James's The American -- Freud and film redux -- Twentieth-century classics and new technologies of legibility : Wharton's Summer ; Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby as a "modernist" western ; Hemingway's The sun also rises -- Race/erasure: Douglass to Roth -- Equivocal epilogue: total visibility in utopia and dystopia.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | PS 366 .S62 G55 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5029337 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-209) and index.
Prologue: Freud's night out -- Three foundational documents and their indelibility -- Majoritarian and racial tyranny: Tocquevill and Beaumont -- Popular forms : Cooper and the western ; Poe and the detective story ; Fanny Fern and the celebrity novel -- The nineteenth-century canon: hidden in plain sight : The scarlet letter ; Melville's Moby-dick ; Thoreau's Walden ; James's The American -- Freud and film redux -- Twentieth-century classics and new technologies of legibility : Wharton's Summer ; Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby as a "modernist" western ; Hemingway's The sun also rises -- Race/erasure: Douglass to Roth -- Equivocal epilogue: total visibility in utopia and dystopia.
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