Fictions of the past: Hawthorne & Melville
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Main Author: Cagidemetrio, Alide (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst, Mass. Distributed by the University of Massachusetts Press ©1992
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197)
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (197 pages)
ISBN:0585142033
0870238612
9780585142036

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