Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline Volume 11

by David R. Shumway

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"Shumway has written a penetrating and provocative account of the making of American civilization as an academic field."

Gerald Graff

University of Chicago

David R. Shumway contends that American literature is the product of study - the deliberate invention of a discipline seeking to define the character and legitimate the existence of a specifically American civilization. He traces the various reconstitutions...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0816621896

ISBN13:9780816621897

Release Date:June 1994

Publisher:University of Minnesota Press

Length:424 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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