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The Power of Historical Knowledge: Narrating the Past in Hawthorne, James, and Dreiser
By (Author) Susan L. Mizruchi
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
813.009
Paperback
336
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
567g
In this provocative study, Susan Mizruchi argues that the act of writing history is the key to the political concerns of American novelists. Using nineteenth-century theories of history as well as recent narratological models, she examines reconstructions of the past in The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Bostonians (1886), The Wings of the D