Sensational Designs The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860

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ISBN: 9780195041194 | 0195041194
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 5/29/1986

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In this provocative book, Jane Tompkins seeks to move the study ofliterature away from the small group of critically approved texts that havedominated literary discussion over the decades, to allow inclusion of textsignored or denigrated by the literary academy. Sensational Designs challengescomfortable assumptions about what makes a literary work a "classic."

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Acknowledgments
Introduction the Cultural Work of American Fiction
Masterpiece Theater: the Politics of Hawthorne's Literary Reputation	p. 3
What Happens in Wieland	p. 40
The Importance of Merely Circulating	p. 62
No Apologies for the Iroquois: a New Way to Read the Leatherstocking Novels	p. 94
Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History	p. 122
The Other American Renaissance	p. 147
"But is It Any Good?": the Institutionalization of Literary Value	p. 186
Notes	p. 203
Index	p. 228
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Sensational Designs The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860

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