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Format: 1 online resource (xviii, 887 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 1-139-05470-8

Content: 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.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015). , CONDITIONS OF LITERARY VOCATION / , Beginnings of Professionalism -- , Women's Fiction and the Literary Marketplace in the 1850s -- , THE LITERATURE OF EXPANSION AND RACE / , Exploration and Empire -- , The Frontier and American Indians -- , The Literature of Slavery and African American Culture -- , THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS / , Unitarian Beginnings -- , The Assault on Locke -- , Carlyle and the Beginnings of American Transcendentalism -- , Annus Mirabilis -- , The Establishment and the Movement -- , Letters and Social Aims -- , The Hope of Reform -- , Diaspora -- , The Antislavery Years -- , NARRATIVE FORMS / , Establishing National Narrative -- , Local Narratives -- , Personal Narratives -- , Literary Narrative -- , Crisis of Literary Narrative and Consolidation of National Narrative / , Chronology / , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-521-30106-8

Language: English