Historicism Once More : : Problems and Occasions for the American Scholar / / Roy Harvey Pearce.

A collection of some of Pearce's best-known essays on historical criticism in which he suggests a way of going beyond positivist historiography and formalist explication de texie toward a criticism which vitally engages the reader in what he reads and puts him m a position of judging himself an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1969
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 2057
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Physical Description:1 online resource (372 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • I. Problems
  • I . Historicism Once More
  • 2. Literature, History, and Humanism
  • 3. Mass Culture/Popular Culture
  • 4. Robin Molineux on The Analyst's Couch
  • II. Occasions
  • 5. The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating
  • 6. Hawthorne and The Sense of The Past; or, The Immortality of Major Molineux
  • 7. Hawthorne and the Twilight of Romance
  • 8. Whitman
  • 9. Henry James and His American
  • 10. Wallace Stevens
  • 11. Theodore Roethke: The Power of Sympathy
  • 12. Whitman and Our Hope for Poetry
  • Index