| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Surface and depth/ Michael T. Gilmore. |
| Reminder of title: |
the quest for legibility in American culture / |
| Author: |
Gilmore, Michael T. |
| Published: |
Oxford ;Oxford University Press, : 2003., |
| Description: |
xvi, 217 p. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
American fiction - History and criticism. - |
| Subject: |
United States - Civilization. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=120979An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0195185544 (electronic bk.) |