Format:
xxvi, 279 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781683931096
Content:
Introduction: Seams and seamlessness in antebellum America -- Christ's seamless robe and the material-spiritual duality in the American renaissance -- Seam by seam: Emily Dickinson's seamless theory of mind -- The seamless web of John S. Sauzade's The Spuytenduyvel Chronicle -- Three literary men: the intertwined lives of Herman Melville, George Washington Peck, and John S. Sauzade -- The seamless whole: national fictions in Herman Melville's Moby-dick (1851), Pierre (1852), and The confidence-man (1857) -- Melville's unraveling in the angelicalness of Pierre -- Epilogue: Loomings of futurity in the seams of Don DeLillo's White noise
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781683931102
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Thomson, Shawn, author Division and imagined unity in the American renaissance Madison [NJ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017]
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
USA
;
Geistesleben
;
Literatur
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
New England Renaissance
;
Geschichte 1840-1860
;
Dickinson, Emily 1830-1886
;
Melville, Herman 1819-1891
