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The Power of Historical Knowledge: Narrating the Past in Hawthorne, James, and Dreiser
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Full Title:
The Power of Historical Knowledge: Narrating the Past in Hawthorne, James, and Dreiser
Contributors:
By (Author) Susan L. Mizruchi
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
19th April 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
813.009
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
336
Dimensions:
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
Weight:
794g
Description
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
