UID:
almahu_9948022489202882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xviii, 887 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139054706 (ebook)
Inhalt:
This is the fullest and richest account of the American Renaissance available in any literary history. The narratives in this volume made for a four-fold perspective on literature: social, cultural, intellectual and aesthetic. Michael D. Bell describes the social conditions of the literary vocation that shaped the growth of a professional literature in the United States. Eric Sundquist draws upon broad cultural patterns: his account of the writings of exploration, slavery, and the frontier is an interweaving of disparate voices, outlooks and traditions. Barbara L. Packer's sources come largely from intellectual history: the theological and philosophical controversies that prepared the way for transcendentalism. Jonathan Arac's categories are formalist: he sees the development of antebellum fiction as a dialectic of prose genres, the emergence of a literary mode out of the clash of national, local and personal forms. Together, these four narratives constitute a basic reassessment of American prose-writing between 1820 and 1865. It is an achievement that will remain authoritative for our time and that will set new directions for coming decades in American literary scholarship.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
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CONDITIONS OF LITERARY VOCATION /
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Beginnings of Professionalism --
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Women's Fiction and the Literary Marketplace in the 1850s --
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THE LITERATURE OF EXPANSION AND RACE /
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Exploration and Empire --
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The Frontier and American Indians --
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The Literature of Slavery and African American Culture --
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THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS /
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Unitarian Beginnings --
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The Assault on Locke --
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Carlyle and the Beginnings of American Transcendentalism --
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Annus Mirabilis --
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The Establishment and the Movement --
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Letters and Social Aims --
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The Hope of Reform --
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Diaspora --
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The Antislavery Years --
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NARRATIVE FORMS /
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Establishing National Narrative --
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Local Narratives --
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Personal Narratives --
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Literary Narrative --
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Crisis of Literary Narrative and Consolidation of National Narrative /
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Chronology /
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9780521301060
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521301060
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