Discovering difference : contemporary essays in American culture

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Why did the European cross the ocean? A seventeenth-century riddle / M. Jehlen

American literature discovers Columbus / T. Martin

Charlotte Temple's remains / E. Cherniavsky

The underheard reader in the writing of the old Southwest / J.H. Justus

Poe, plagiarism, and the prescriptive right of the mob / J. Elmer

Hawthorne and the making of the middle class / M.T. Gilmore

"Margaret Garner": a Cincinnati story / C.G. Wolff

Antinomies of liberalism: the politics of "belief" and the project of Americanist criticism / C. Wolfe

The great mother domesticated: sexual difference and sexual indifference in D.W. Griffith's Intolerance / M. Rogin

Choicelessness as choice: the conflation of racism and sexism / C.A. Mitchell