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Creating American Civilization: A Genealogy of American Literature as an Academic Discipline
David Shumway
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paperback. Series: American Culture. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
“Shumway has written a penetrating and provocative account of the making of American civilization as an academic field.”
Gerald GraffUniversity of ChicagoDavid 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 of American literature by examining the discipline’s practices and techniques, discourses and structures, paradigms and unstated assumptions.This genealogy begins around 1890, when American literature as defined by institutions outside the academy, such as magazines and publishing houses, acquired much of the ideology ... Read moreProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
Series
American Culture
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816621897
SKU
V9780816621897
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About David Shumway
David R. Shumway is an associate professor of literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University.
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