The Politics of Classic American Literature
Rowe, John Carlos
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Paperback
318 pages
Published: 1996
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN / EAN: 0231058950
Challenges the conventional critical reading of the American poetic project as an engagement with or reaction against Emersonian thought. Rowe demonstrates how ideals of individualism, intellectualism, and otherworldiness inevitably undermine any politica