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1031141
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b785511
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Rowe, John Carlos.
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At Emerson's tomb : : the politics of classic American literature /\ John Carlos Rowe.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, ©1997.
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xiv, 302 pages ;; 24 cm
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0231058942
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: 0231058950
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: 9780231058940
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: 9780231058957
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-292) and index.
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| Contents
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1. At Emerson's Tomb -- 2. "Hamlet's Task": Emerson's Political Writings -- 3. Antebellum Slavery and Modern Criticism: Edgar Allan Poe's Pym and "The Purloined Letter" -- 4. A Critique of Ideology: Herman Melville's Pierre -- 5. Between Politics and Poetics: Frederick Douglass' Narrative of the Life of an American Slave, Written by Himself -- 6. Reconstructing The Family: Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- 7. The Body Poetic: Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps -- 8. Fatal Speculations -- Murder, Money, and Manners: Mark Twain's The Gilded Age and Pudd'nhead Wilson -- 9. The Politics of Innocence: Henry James' The American -- 10. The Economics of The Body: Kate Chopin's The Awakening -- 11. The African-American Voice: William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses -- 12. Revivals.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo,1803-1882-- Political and social views.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo,1803-1882-- Political and social views.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo,1803-1882
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American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Antislavery movements-- United States.
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Liberalism in literature.
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Literature and society-- United States.
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Politics and literature-- United States-- History-- 19th century.
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Race in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Women's rights in literature.
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Abolitionismus
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American literature.
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Antislavery movements.
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Frauenbewegung
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Liberalism in literature.
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Literatur
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Literature and society.
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Political and social views.
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Politics and literature.
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Race in literature.
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Rassenfrage
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Sex role in literature.
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Women's rights in literature.
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United States.
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USA
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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814/.3
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| LC Classification
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PS217.P64R69 1997
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HT 1520rvk
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HT 5055rvk
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