Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/008932484/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 28 of
28
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""In this study, Geoff Ward puts forward the claim that the founding documents of American identity are essentially literary. America was invented, not discovered, and it remains in thrall to the myth of an earthly Paradise. This is Paradise[superscript TM], and American ideology imprisons as it inspires. The Writing of America shows the tension between these forces in a wide range of literary and other texts, from Puritan sermons and the Declaration of Independence, through nineteenth-century classics, to folk and blues lyrics and the popular novel. Alongside his reassessments of canonical writers, Ward offers new material on lost or neglected figures from the world of literature, film and music. His analyses of American literature and culture make this an essential guide to what Lincoln termed the last best hope of earth."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12543501.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""In this study, Geoff Ward puts forward the claim that the founding documents of American identity are essentially literary. America was invented, not discovered, and it remains in thrall to the myth of an earthly Paradise. This is Paradise[superscript TM], and American ideology imprisons as it inspires. The Writing of America shows the tension between these forces in a wide range of literary and other texts, from Puritan sermons and the Declaration of Independence, through nineteenth-century classics, to folk and blues lyrics and the popular novel. Alongside his reassessments of canonical writers, Ward offers new material on lost or neglected figures from the world of literature, film and music.".
- catalog description "His analyses of American literature and culture make this an essential guide to what Lincoln termed the last best hope of earth."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-229) and index.".
- catalog description "Maps and legends -- American literature and the body electric -- Melville: crises in representation -- 'Eden is burning': literature of the popular imagination -- Going fishing: Harry Smith, the Anthology of American Folk Music, and the fan -- Modernism and the subversive imagination -- 'Dedicated to America, whatever that is': contemporary literature and the egress.".
- catalog extent "vii, 235 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0745626211".
- catalog identifier "074562622X (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers,".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "810.9/358 21".
- catalog subject "American literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Group identity in literature.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, American, in literature.".
- catalog subject "Nationalism and literature United States.".
- catalog subject "PS169.N35 W37 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "Maps and legends -- American literature and the body electric -- Melville: crises in representation -- 'Eden is burning': literature of the popular imagination -- Going fishing: Harry Smith, the Anthology of American Folk Music, and the fan -- Modernism and the subversive imagination -- 'Dedicated to America, whatever that is': contemporary literature and the egress.".
- catalog title "The writing of America : literature and cultural identity from the Puritans to the present / Geoff Ward.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".