Constance Rourke and American Culture

The career of Constance Rourke (1885-1941) is one of the richest examples of the American writer''s search for a "usable past." In this first full-length study of Rourke, Joan Shelley Rubin establishes the context for Rourke''s defense of American culture -- the controversies that engaged her, the books that influenced her thinking, the premises that lay beneath her vocabulary.

With the aid ...