Narratives of nostalgia, gender, and nationalism / edited by Jean Pickering and Suzanne Kehde.

Contents The future of nostalgia in Friedrich Schlegel's gender theory: casting German aesthetics beyond ancient Greece and modern Europe / Jonathan Steinwand -- Writing historically, speaking nostalgically: the competing languages of nation in Scott's The bride of Lammermoor / Janet Sorensen -- From nation of virtue to virtual nation: Washington Irving and American nationalism / Walter Sondey -- The birthing of the American flag and the invention of an American founding mother in the image of Betsy Ross / JoAnn Menezes -- Mother India through the ages: the dilemma of conflicting subjectivities / Sabina Sawhney -- Willa Cather's My Ántonia and the politics of modernist classicism / John N. Swift -- Scripting woman into the discourse of nostalgia: gender and the nation state / Hema Chari -- Female sacrifice: gender and nostalgic nationalism in Rebecca West's Black lamb and grey falcon / Loretta Stec -- Where are the missing contents? (post)modernism, gender, and the canon / Ellen G. Friedman -- Remembering D-day: a case of history in nostalgia / Jean Pickering.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96012917
ISBN0814766358
ISBN0814766366 (pbk.)
ISBN0081466366 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks PS152 .N37 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold