Canons and Contexts.

Intro -- Contents -- PART I: The Canon and the Literary Profession -- Society and the Profession, 1958-83 -- Race and Gender in the Shaping of the American Literary Canon: A Case Study from the Twenties -- The Literatures of America-A Comparative Discipline -- Reconstructing American Literature-Curricular Issues -- Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers -- The Two Criticisms-or, Structure, Lingo, and Power in the Discourse of Academic Humanists -- Canon Theory and Emergent Practice -- PART II: The University and The Republic -- Retrenchment-What the Managers Are Doing -- A Scandalous Misuse of Faculty-Adjuncts -- Beyond Consciousness Raising-Changing Institutions -- University Reform-Threat or Opportunity -- Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth -- Whose Culture? Whose Literacy? -- The Book of Bloom and the Discourse of Difference -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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