Reconstructing American literary history - Bercovitch, Sacvan (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986)
"We hold these truths" / Robert A. Ferguson -- Popular fiction and critical values / Morris Dickstein -- Origin and authority / Barbara Packer -- Benito Cereno and new world slavery / Eric J. Sundquist -- The American sexual poetics of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Appearing and disappearing in public / Philip Fisher -- Corporate fiction / Walter Benn Michaels -- On the idealogies of poetic modernism, 1890-1913 / Frank Lentricchia -- A critique of pure pluralism / Werner Sollors -- American poet-critics since 1945 / Robert von Hallberg -- Distrust of the reader in Afro-American narratives / Robert B. Stepto -- Collage or miracle / Wendy Steiner.
Includes bibliographies.
Keywords: American literature -- History and criticism