Author: RIDDEL, Joseph N. BAUERLEIN, Mark ed.
Title: Purloined Letters. Originality and Repetition in American Literature.
Description: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Good condition in dj. A collection of essays that carry the question of modernism back into classic 19th-century American literature - the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, William James etc. - exploring the author's cardinal "American" oppositions: creation vs representation, poetry vs criticism, geography vs "ego-ography". 180pp.

Keywords: american united states usa literature twentieth century 20th 19th nineteenth literary criticism north america