Beneath the American Renaissance (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
656
Utgivningsdatum
2011-07-28
Förlag
OUP USA
Illustratör/Fotograf
27 halftones
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27 halftones
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235 x 155 x 41 mm
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840 g
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1
ISBN
9780199782840

Beneath the American Renaissance

The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville

av David S Reynolds
Häftad,  Engelska, 2011-07-28
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The aware-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson receive striking, original readings set against the rich backdrop of contemporary popular writing. Now back in print in an affordable paperback edition, the volume includes a new foreword by prominent historian Sean Wilentz.
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Justin Kaplan, The New York Times Book Review Impressively informed and heroic . . . An original piece of work that gives the literary canon and its contexts a good shaking.

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David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books include Walt Whitman's America, Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson, John Brown, Abolitionist, and Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin andthe Battle for America.

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INTRODUCTION; PART I GOD'S BOW, MAN'S ARROWS: RELIGION, REFORM, AND AMERICAN LITERATURE; 1. The New Religious Style; 2. The Reform Impulse and the Paradox of Immoral Didacticism; 3. The Transcendentalists, Whitman, and Popular Reform; 4. Hawthorne and the Reform Impulse; 5. Melville's Whited Sepulchres; PART II: PUBLIC POISON: SENSATIONALISM AND SEXUALITY; 6. The Sensational Press and the Rise of Subversive Literature; 7. The Erotic Imagination; 8. Poe and Popular Irrationalism; 9. Hawthorne's Cultural Demons; 10. Melville's Ruthless Democracy; 11. Whitman's Transfigured Sensationalism; PART III: OTHER AMAZONS: WOMEN'S RIGHTS, WOMEN'S WRONGS, AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION; 12. Types of American Womanhood; 13. Hawthorne's Heroines; 14. The American Women's Renaissance and Emily Dickinson; PART IV THE GROTESQUE POSTURE POPULAR HUMOR AND THE AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE STYLE; 15. The Carnivalization of American Language; 16. Transcendental Wild Oats; 17. Whitman's Poetic Humor; 18. Stylized Laugher in Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville; EPILOGUE RECONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: LITERARY THEORY AND LITERARY HISTORY; NOTES; INDEX

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