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Rereading Jack London.

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From: Utopian Studies
Date: 19970322
Author:Lovett-Graf, Bennett

Leonard Cassuto and Jeanne Campbell Reesman, eds. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996. xvii + 287 pp. $45.00.

WHEN WALTER BENN MICHAELS'S The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism appeared in 1987, the study of American naturalism underwent a fundamental change. Michaels's impetus was the New Historicism, a critical movement that drew on Michel Foucault's work for inspiration. Heralding the rise of American cultural studies--a New Historicist-inspired form of literary criticism that liberally mixes neo-Marxism, post-Freudian psychoanalysis, and other poststructural modes of ...

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