Composing Cultures: Modernism, American Literary Studies, and the Problem of Culture

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Problem of Culture 1 1 Van Wyck Brooks and Edward Sapir: Divided America and the Form of Genuine Culture 23 2 Possessing Culture: Willa Cather’s Aesthetic of Culture in The Song of the Lark and The Professor’s House 57 3 Cultures, Canons, and Cetology: Modernist Culture and the Melville Revival 85 4 Recovering the Whole: Culture, Region, and Poetry in the Literary Criticism of John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate 136 Conclusion: Composing Critical Cultures 181 Notes 195 Index 219 ...