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Vital Signs
James W. Tuttleton
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Description for Vital Signs
Hardback. Nineteen essays derived from Mr. Tuttleton's long engagement with the masterworks of the American imagination, illustrating his conviction that great literature is art, not social science, and analyzing the effect of contemporary critical theory on the American canon. Num Pages: 383 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 162 x 34. Weight in Grams: 662.
James Tuttleton's literary writings in such magazines as the New Criterion, the American Scholar, and the Yale Review have earned him a reputation as one of our most trenchant critics. Here he collects twenty essays derived from his long engagement with the masterworks of the American imagination. Discussions of Hawthorne and Emerson, Howells and James, Fuller and Chopin, and Fitzgerald and Anderson, among others, are counterpointed with an analysis of the effect of contemporary critical theory on the American canon. Mr. Tuttleton scrutinizes a century and a half of great American writing from the viewpoint of literature as an art ... Read more
James Tuttleton's literary writings in such magazines as the New Criterion, the American Scholar, and the Yale Review have earned him a reputation as one of our most trenchant critics. Here he collects twenty essays derived from his long engagement with the masterworks of the American imagination. Discussions of Hawthorne and Emerson, Howells and James, Fuller and Chopin, and Fitzgerald and Anderson, among others, are counterpointed with an analysis of the effect of contemporary critical theory on the American canon. Mr. Tuttleton scrutinizes a century and a half of great American writing from the viewpoint of literature as an art ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
383
Condition
New
Number of Pages
383
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566631006
SKU
V9781566631006
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About James W. Tuttleton
James W. Tuttleton, who died in November 1998, also wrote The Novel of Manners in America and edited volume one of The Works of Washington Irving for the Library of America. He was professor of English at New York University.
Reviews for Vital Signs
It is impossible to catalog all the merits of this rich book, packed as it is with tart observations, keen insights, and persuasive new readings of texts in American literature.
Wilma R. Ebbitt
Sewanee Review
Informed, tactful, and passionate.
William H. Pritchard
Times Literary Supplement
James Tuttleton is one of those rare critics who ... Read more
Wilma R. Ebbitt
Sewanee Review
Informed, tactful, and passionate.
William H. Pritchard
Times Literary Supplement
James Tuttleton is one of those rare critics who ... Read more