%0 Journal Article
%T Sacvan Bercovitch, ed. The Cambridge History of American Literature
%A Virginia RICARD
%J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone
%D 2007
%I 
%X Sacvan Bercovitch¡¯s eight-volume Cambridge History of American Literature is now complete: this is volume three, but the last in print. Originally conceived in the early nineties, the project has been the work of ¡°a new generation of Americanists who have redrawn the boundaries of the field.¡± The use of ¡°Americanist¡± here signals the manner in which those boundaries have been ¡°redrawn.¡± Clearly, the History is not meant to be the work of stuffy (old) professors of literature who focus narrowl...
%U http://erea.revues.org/666