UID:
almahu_9947414352102882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 188 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511897092 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 12
Content:
This book is a meditation on the theme of provincialism in American literature. With careful attention to the historical context, it identifies in the expressions of writers before the Civil War certain qualities of self-doubt and defensiveness, certain perceptions of displacement and decline, so profoundly characteristic as to amount to a defining trait of American literature. As a frontier nation, America lacked an organic culture of its own and embarked on the impossibly difficult task of creating a cultural life from imported forms and ideas. Albert von Frank shows the history of this effort to be one of a desperate conservatism struggling against the withering effects of time and distance on cherished standards of the past.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Provincialism and the frontier --
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"But enmity this amity did break" --
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Brother Jonathan --
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"A musy in the thicket" --
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Geoffrey Crayon and the gigantic race --
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Hawthorne's provincial imagination --
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Working in Eden --
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Life as art in America --
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Reading God directly: the morbidity of culture --
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521301596
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511897092
URL:
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