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- catalog abstract ""Surface and Depth: The Quest for Legibility in American Culture is a fresh attempt to revitalize an interpretive overview. Focusing on the distinctly American zeal for knowing or making legible, it seeks to recuperate a central tradition while simultaneously recognizing how much that tradition has occluded." "Combining historical reconceptualization with readings of many of the classics of American literature, Michael Gilmore traces - from the time of the first white settlement and subsequent founding of the United States - the presence of a hitherto unappreciated inheritance. American culture has from the start been consumed with the imperatives of knowledge and accessibility, an insatiable appetite to explore the surface and depths and give them tangible form."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12620729.
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization.".
- catalog coverage "United States In literature.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Surface and Depth: The Quest for Legibility in American Culture is a fresh attempt to revitalize an interpretive overview. Focusing on the distinctly American zeal for knowing or making legible, it seeks to recuperate a central tradition while simultaneously recognizing how much that tradition has occluded." "Combining historical reconceptualization with readings of many of the classics of American literature, Michael Gilmore traces - from the time of the first white settlement and subsequent founding of the United States - the presence of a hitherto unappreciated inheritance. American culture has from the start been consumed with the imperatives of knowledge and accessibility, an insatiable appetite to explore the surface and depths and give them tangible form."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-209) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 217 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195157761 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization.".
- catalog spatial "United States In literature.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "818/.08 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American prose literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society United States.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, American, in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS366.S62 G55 2003".
- catalog subject "Social problems in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Surface and depth : the quest for legibility in American culture / Michael T. Gilmore.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".