Is This literary history?

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(The Chronicle of Higher Education) - Harvard University
Press's major new tome, "A New Literary History of America"
(Amazon.com: http://xrl.us/LiteraryHistory ), is getting
significant publicity�both praise and controversy. Edited
by the Harvard scholars Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors,
with its own Web site - http://xrl.us/Literary - and a
kickoff party in Cambridge featuring symposia on aspects of
the book, it's a 1,122-page collection of essays that
unpack cultural topics broadly defined�not just literature,
high and low, but the Salem witch trials, W.E.B. Du Bois
and his relation to Booker T. Washington, J.F.K.'s
inaugural, Linda Lovelace's Ordeal, the screenplay as
genre, Alcoholics Anonymous. It is history, literature, art
criticism, and more, all rolled into one. The Chronicle
Review asked Mark Bauerlein and Priscilla Wald to discuss
the project via e-mail. Sollors then comments on the
dialogue..

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