Fictions of the past : Hawthorne & Melville /
Alide Cagidemetrio.
Bok Engelsk 1992 Alide. Cagidemetrio,· Electronic books
Utgitt | Amherst, Mass. : : Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities : : Distributed by the University of Massachusetts Press, , c1992.
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Omfang | 1 online resource (197 p. )
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Opplysninger | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - Nathaniel Hawthorne. pt. I. The Phantasmagorias of Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1. On phantasmagorias and Hawthorne. 2. Phantasmagoric shows and the poetics of romance. 3. History as phantasmagoria. 4. Palimpsests of phantasmagorias, or the making of historical symbols: The Legends of the Province-House. 5. The Legends of the Province-House and the phantasmagoric effects of symbols. pt. II. Phantasmagorias, Telegraphs, and the American Claim to the Past. 6. A Transatlantic Cable and The Ancestral Footstep. 7. Modern telegraphy. 8. The phantasmagoria of national memory: Etherege and Grimshawe. 9. Footsteps of blood and The Elixir of Life -- Herman Melville. pt. I. Herman Melville and the Past as an American Sourcebook. 1. An authentic book of the past: Israel Potter, revolutionary soldier. 2. The Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel Potter: the source. 3. Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile, a Parallel, a Type, and a Prophecy. 4. The political Messiah is in us. 5. The ur-source of national prophecy.. - pt. II. Usable Pasts and Collective Memories. 6. On the Fourth of July. 7. On the Bunker Hill Monument. 8. An old tombstone retouched -- Final Remarks: If All History Is in One Man ...
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Emner | Hawthorne, Nathaniel : (NO-TrBIB)90071240
Melville, Herman , 1819-1891 : (NO-TrBIB)90072387 American fiction - History and criticism Historical fiction, American - History and criticism Vis mer... |
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ISBN | 0870238612
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