Novel Frames: Literature as Guide to Race, Sex, and History in American Culture by Joseph R. Urgo

Novel Frames: Literature as Guide to Race, Sex, and History in American Culture

Joseph R. Urgo

227 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

medium-paced

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Urgo argues that when literary texts depict selfhood in a particular historical context, they convey more knowledge about society than the texts explicitly acknowledge. This "knowledge" is not primarily historically accurate information; but it co...

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