The American Ideal —— Literary History as a Worldly Activity

----- 美国理想：文学史作为世俗活动

ISBN: 9780195067651 出版年：1991 页码：223 Carafiol, Peter Oxford University Press

The American Ideal argues that the institution of American literary scholarship enshrines a reactionary view of history, of narrative, and a reactionary and dangerous view of America itself. It examines the way the idea of 'America' has been wrapped up with American literary history and unwraps the implications of that relationship for contemporary debates about the methods and status of literary history in general.