Sensational Designs

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Sensational Designs

The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860

Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Author: Jane Tompkins

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Language: English

Published by: Oxford University Press

Published on: 29th May 1986

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 316 Kb

ISBN: 9780190281373


In this provocative book, Jane Tompkins seeks to move the study of literature away from the small group of critically approved texts that have dominated literary discussion over the decades, to allow inclusion of texts ignored or denigrated by the literary academy.

Sensational Designs

challenges comfortable assumptions about what makes a literary work a "classic."

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