SOURCE: "The Other American Renaissance," in The American Renaissance Reconsidered: Selected Papers from the English Institute, 1982-83, edited by Walter Benn Michaels and Donald E. Pease, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, pp. 34-57.
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