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How is a classic book to be defined? How much time must elapse before a work may be judged a " classic" ? And among all the works of American literature, which deserve the designation? In this provocative new book Denis Donoghue essays to answer these questions.
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The American Classics
2008, Yale University Press
Electronic resource
in English
0300133782 9780300133783
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The American classics: a personal essay
2005, Yale University Press
in English
0300107811 9780300107814
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Introduction : after Emerson
Emerson and "The American Scholar"
Moby-Dick
The Scarlet letter
Walden
Leaves of grass
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-280) and index.


