Sensational Designs The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860

Name: Sensational Designs The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860
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ISBN: 9780195041194

ISBN-10: 0195041194

ISBN-13: 9780195041194

Edition: 1985

Authors: Jane P. Tompkins

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In this provocative book, Jane Tompkins seeks to move the study ofliterature away from the small group of critically approved texts that havedominated literary discussion over the decades, to allow inclusion of textsignored or denigrated by the literary academy. Sensational Designs challengescomfortable assumptions about what makes a literary work a "classic."

Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/29/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction the Cultural Work of American Fiction



Masterpiece Theater: the Politics of Hawthorne's Literary Reputation



What Happens in Wieland



The Importance of Merely Circulating



No Apologies for the Iroquois: a New Way to Read the Leatherstocking Novels



Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History



The Other American Renaissance



"But is It Any Good?": the Institutionalization of Literary Value


Notes


Index