Recovering American Literature
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ISBN: 1566630533 / Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, March 1994
Argues that modern literary criticism has gotten caught up in political concerns and is unable to appreciate the qualities that make "The Scarlet Letter," "Moby-Dick," "Billy Budd," "Huckleberry Finn," and "The Bostonians" great literature
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Considering the treatment meted out to the great classics of American literature—by Hawthorne, Melville, Mark Twain, and Henry James—Shaw shows convincingly how they have been systematically raided by academic critics in the service of political correctness, and virtually robbed of their deepest meaning.
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