Words washed clean
David Trotter, 5 December 1991
From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature
by Richard Ruland and Malcolm Bradbury.
Routledge, 381 pp., £35, August 1991,0 415 01341 0 Show More
by Richard Ruland and Malcolm Bradbury.
Routledge, 381 pp., £35, August 1991,
“... writing, until there is little left that doesn’t speak, somehow, of self-renewal. Bradbury and Ruland maintain that American literature always has been and always will be ‘pre-eminently a modern literature’. Their history surveys the long march of self-renewals with the benevolent discrimination of a spectator at the Rose Bowl parade. Each float ... ”