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Author:

Gilmore, Michael T.

Title:

Surface and depth : the quest for legibility in American culture / Michael T. Gilmore.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

xvi, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American prose literature--History and criticism.
Social problems in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.
Literature and society--United States.
United States--In literature.
United States--Civilization.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-209) and index.

Contents:

Prologue: Freud's night out -- Three foundational documents and their indelibility -- Majoritarian and racial tyranny: Tocquevill and Beaumont -- Popular forms : Cooper and the western ; Poe and the detective story ; Fanny Fern and the celebrity novel -- The nineteenth-century canon: hidden in plain sight : The scarlet letter ; Melville's Moby-dick ; Thoreau's Walden ; James's The American -- Freud and film redux -- Twentieth-century classics and new technologies of legibility : Wharton's Summer ; Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby as a "modernist" western ; Hemingway's The sun also rises -- Race/erasure: Douglass to Roth -- Equivocal epilogue: total visibility in utopia and dystopia.

ISBN:

9780195157765 (acid-free paper)
0195157761 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49225294

LCCN:

2002002636

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)