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990577
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b744947
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| Main Entry
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Gilmore, Michael T.
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| Title & Author
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Surface and depth : : the quest for legibility in American culture /\ Michael T. Gilmore.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2003.
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1 online resource (xvi, 217 pages)
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| ISBN
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0195157761
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: 019803587X
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: 0199787786
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: 1280502770
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: 9780195157765
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: 9780198035879
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: 9780199787784
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: 9781280502774
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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The idea of a common American culture is in retreat; arguments emphasizing difference have discredited the grand synthetic studies that marginalized groups and perspectives at odds with the master narrative. This work is an attempt to revitalize an interpretive overview.
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American fiction-- History and criticism.
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American prose literature-- History and criticism.
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Literature and society-- United States.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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Social problems in literature.
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American fiction.
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American prose literature.
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Civilization.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Literature and society.
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Literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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Social problems in literature.
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United States, Civilization.
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United States, In literature.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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818/.08
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| LC Classification
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PS366.S62G55 2003eb
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