Historicism Once More: Problems and Occasions for the American Scholar
Author:   Roy Harvey Pearce
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Volume:   2055
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9780691621845


Pages:   372
Publication Date:   08 December 2015
Format:   Paperback
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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 and his culture, past and present Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Author:   Roy Harvey Pearce
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Volume:   2055
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9780691621845


ISBN 10:   0691621845
Pages:   372
Publication Date:   08 December 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Language:   English

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*Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xiii*I . Historicism Once More, pg. 3*2. Literature, History, and Humanism, pg. 46*3. Mass Culture/Popular Culture, pg. 64*4. Robin Molineux on The Analyst's Couch, pg. 96*5. The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating, pg. 109*6. Hawthorne and The Sense of The Past; or, The Immortality of Major Molineux, pg. 137*7. Hawthorne and the Twilight of Romance, pg. 175*8. Whitman, pg. 200*9. Henry James and His American, pg. 240*10. Wallace Stevens, pg. 261*11. Theodore Roethke: The Power of Sympathy, pg. 294*12. Whitman and Our Hope for Poetry, pg. 327*Index, pg. 351

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