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Article: The Cambridge History of American Literature, vol. 7: Prose Writing 1940-1990.(Review) (book review)
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- American Studies International
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- June 1, 2000
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Sacvan Bercovitch, ed. The Cambridge History of American Literature, vol. 7: Prose Writing 1940-1990 (Cambridge, England & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), xxiii + 795 pp., $85.00 (cloth).
Ambitious and comprehensive publications such as this are destined by their very nature to serve as a milestone by which literary criticism measures its own development. The editors claim that the new Cambridge History of American Literature, of which the volume reviewed here is the latest, marks a new beginning in the study of American literature. Comparing their effort to the original Cambridge History of American Literature (4 vols. 1917-21) and The Literary ...