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The remarkable and true story of the nineteenth-century novelist, journalist, and feminist Fanny Fern.

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Populism in literature --- Democracy in literature --- Public opinion in literature --- Brown, Charles Brockden --- Cooper, James Fenimore --- Melville, Herman --- Fern, Fanny --- Jacobs, Harriet Ann

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The idea of a common American culture has been in retreat for a generation or more. Arguments emphasizing difference have discredited the grand synthetic studies that marginalized groups and perspectives at odds with the master narrative. Surface and Depth: The Quest for Legibility in American Culture is a fresh attempt to revitalize an interpretive overview. It seeks to recuperate a central tradition while simultaneously recognizing how much that tradition has occluded. The book focuses on the American zeal for knowing or making accessible. This compulsion has a long history stretching back to Puritan anti-monasticism; to the organization of the landscape into clearly delineated gridwork sections; and to the creation of a national government predicted on popular vigilance. It can be observed in the unmatched American receptivity to the motion pictures and to psychoanalysis: the first a technology of visual surfaces, the second a technique for plumbing interior depths. Popular literature, especially the Western and the detective story, has reinscribed the cult of legibility. Each genre features a plot that drives through impediments to transparent resolution. Elite literature has adopted a more contradictory stance. The landmarks of the American canon typically embark on journeys of discovery while simultaneously renouncing the possibility of full disclosure (as in Ahab's doomed pursuit of the "inscrutable" white whale). The notorious modernism of American literature, its precocious attraction to obscurity and multiple meaning, evolved as an effort to block the intrusions of a hegemonic cultural dynamic. The American passion for knowability has been prolific of casualties. Acts of making visible have always entailed the erasure and invisibility of racial minorities. American society has also routinely trespassed on customary areas of reserve. A nation intolerant of the hidden paradoxically pioneered the legal concept of privacy, but it did so in reaction to its o

Sociology of literature --- Fiction --- American literature --- American national characteristics in literature --- Amerikaans volkskarakter in de literatuur --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines dans la littérature --- National characteristics [American ] in literature --- Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature --- Social problems in literature --- Sociale problemen in de literatuur --- Volkskarakter [Amerikaans ] in de literatuur --- Wharton, Edith Newbold, 1862-1937. Summer --- American fiction --- American prose literature --- Literature and society --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Social problems in literature. --- History and criticism. --- United States --- Civilization. --- In literature. --- National characteristics, American, in literature --- History and criticism --- In literature --- Civilization --- Melville, Herman --- Thoreau, Henry David --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- Fitzgerald, Francis Scott --- Poe, Edgar Allan --- Criticism and interpretation --- Fern, Fanny --- Cooper, James Fenimore

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American literature --- Thematology --- African Americans in literature. --- African Americans --- Race in literature. --- Race relations in literature. --- Racism in literature. --- Whites --- Intellectual life. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- White authors --- Intellectual life --- African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Afro-Amerikanen in de literatuur --- Afro-Américains dans la littérature --- Amerikaanse zwarten in de literatuur --- Black Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym --- Race relations in literature --- Racism in literature --- Racisme dans la littérature --- Racisme in de literatuur --- Rassenverhoudingen in de literatuur --- Relations raciales dans la littérature --- Styron, William, 1925-2006. The Confessions of Nat Turner --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur --- History and criticism --- Twain, Mark --- Douglass, Frederick --- Criticism and interpretation --- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt --- Howells, William Dean --- Stein, Gertrude --- Cooper, Anna Julia Hayward --- Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher --- Wright, Richard --- Poe, Edgar Allan --- Melville, Herman --- AUTEURS NOIRS AMERICAINS --- NOIRS AMERICAINS DANS LA LITTERATURE --- RELATIONS INTERETHNIQUES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- LITTERATURE AFRO-AMERICAINE --- TWAIN (MARK) --- FERN (FANNY) --- HOWELLS (WILLIAM DEAN) --- DU BOIS (WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT), 1868-1963 --- COOPER (ANNA JULIA HAYWOOD) --- BEECHER-STOWE (HARRIET), 1811-1896 --- MELVILLE (HERMAN) --- POE (EDGAR ALLAN), 1809-1849 --- DOUGLASS (FREDERICK), 1817?-1895 --- STEIN (GERTRUDE), 1874-1946 --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- Relations interethniques --- Dans la littérature