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    <title>Reconstructing American literary history</title>
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    <namePart>Bercovitch, Sacvan.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Harvard University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1986</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xii, 351 p. ; 22 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>"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.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Sacvan Bercovitch.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographies.</note>
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    <topic>History and criticism</topic>
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      <title>Harvard English studies ; 13</title>
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