Studies in Classic American Literature

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Studies in Classic American Literature is a collection of critical essays by D. H. Lawrence that offers unconventional, psychologically probing interpretations of major 19th-century American writers and their works.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
essay collection
approach cultural criticism
psychoanalytic criticism
psychological interpretation
author D. H. Lawrence
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalStance anti-formalist
iconoclastic
firstPublicationForm series of essays
focus canonical American texts
major 19th-century American writers
genre essay
literary criticism
hasPerspectiveOn American moralism
Puritan legacy in American literature
myth of American innocence
hasReputation classic of American literary criticism
influencedField American literary criticism
modernist criticism
psychoanalytic literary criticism
language English
notableSubjectOfEssay Benjamin Franklin
Edgar Allan Poe
Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
Herman Melville
James Fenimore Cooper
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Walt Whitman
notableWorkDiscussed Leaves of Grass
Moby-Dick
Redburn
The Scarlet Letter
Typee
White-Jacket
partOfAuthorCareerPhase D. H. Lawrence's late critical work
placeOfPublication New York City
publicationYear 1923
publisher Thomas Seltzer
subject 19th-century American writers
American literature
classic American literature
theme American identity
conflict between individual and society
repression in American culture
sexuality
unconscious motives of authors
tone unconventional

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