Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2008 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781139054706
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
In:
2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521301068
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. The Cambridge history of American literature ; 2: 1820 - 1865 Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1995 ISBN 0521301068
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521301060
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CHOL9780521301060
