The Division of Literature

Download or read book The Division of Literature written by Peggy Kamuf and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-02-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These questions guide Peggy Kamuf's analysis of the complex history of literary study in the modern university and orient her critical reading of developments from the French Revolution through the nineteenth century and beyond in Europe. She then turns to one of the most troubling works in the American literary canon - Melville's The Confidence-Man - to show how academic literary history has avoided confronting the implications of works in which meaning is never solely confined within a past.