Author: Simpson, Lewis P.
Title: The Brazen Face of History : Studies in the Literary Consciousness in America
Description: Baton Rouge [LA], Louisiana State Univ. Press, (1980). orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 24x15cm, xvi,276 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The Printer as American Man of Letters; The Symbolism of Literary Alienation in the Revolutionary Age; The Fiction of the Real American Revolution; Slavery & Modernism; The Act of Thought in Virginia: The Civil War & the Failure of the Literary Mind in America; The Southern Exodus from Arcadia; The Will to Art in Postbellum America; The Spectorial Attitude; The Decorum of the Writer; The Bard & the Clerk; The Legend of the Artist; A Fable of Civilisation; What Survivors Do; The Closure of History in a Postsouthern America.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, American Literature, United States, History, , , , ,