Above The American Renaissance

Author : Harold Karl Bush,Brian Yothers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1625343604

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Above the American Renaissance by Harold Karl Bush,Brian Yothers Pdf

Above the American Renaissance takes David S. Reynolds's classic study Beneath the American Renaissance as a model and a provocation to consider how language and concepts broadly defined as spiritual are essential to understanding nineteenth-century American literary culture. In the 1980s, Reynolds's scholarship and methodology enlivened investigations of religious culture, and since then, for reasons that include a rising respect for interdisciplinarity and the aftershocks of the 9/11 attacks, religion in literature has become a major area of inquiry for Americanists. In essays that reconsider and contextualize Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, Abraham Lincoln, and others, this volume captures the vibrancy of spiritual considerations in American literary studies and points a way forward within literary and spiritual investigations. In addition to the editors and David S. Reynolds, contributors include Jeffrey Bilbro, Dawn Coleman, Jonathan A. Cook, Tracy Fessenden, Zachary Hutchins, Richard Kopley, Mason I. Lowance Jr., John Matteson, Christopher N. Phillips, Vivian Pollak, Michael Robertson, Gail K. Smith, Claudia Stokes, and Timothy Sweet.

Author : David S. Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199976409

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Beneath the American Renaissance by David S. Reynolds Pdf

The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David Reynolds is known. Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson receive striking, original readings set against the rich backdrop of contemporary popular writing. Now back in print, the volume includes a new foreword by historian Sean Wilentz that reveals the book's impact and influence. A magisterial work of criticism and cultural history, Beneath the American Renaissance will fascinate anyone interested in the genesis of America's most significant literary epoch and the iconic figures who defined it.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438114910

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The American Renaissance by Harold Bloom Pdf

Examines the literary period of the nineteenth century known as the American Renaissance that includes the work of Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe and others.

Author : Christopher N. Phillips
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108420914

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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance by Christopher N. Phillips Pdf

This volume offers a new introduction to the American Renaissance, exploring many of the key themes, genres, and social and cultural contexts that inform the best new scholarship in the field.

Author : Various
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780807616192

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Poetry of the American Renaissance by Various Pdf

Newly available, here is the most comprehensive poetry collection from the half-century between 1820 and 1870. “Among anthologies, there is nothing comparable to Paul Kane’s Poetry of the American Renaissance.”—Harold Bloom

Author : David Leverenz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0801497434

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Manhood and the American Renaissance by David Leverenz Pdf

In 1980, when my book on Puritans had just come out, one of my more well-known colleagues sat down in my office to read the jacket flap. 'Oh, ' He said, with a touch of disdain. 'You're actually saying something.' This book, too, is actually saying something-more readably, I hope. My colleague's spontaneous reaction expressed the prevailing postromatic values of the profession, which dazzle of critical sensibility playing over texts.

Author : Don E. Eberly
Publisher : Hudson Institute
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050816704

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Building a Healthy Culture by Don E. Eberly Pdf

This volume explores the state of American culture, offering fair and politically balanced strategies for cultural renewal and promoting cultural health in today's society.

Author : Robert Luther Duffus
Publisher : New York, Knopf
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : American drama
ISBN : UOM:39015013644482

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The American Renaissance by Robert Luther Duffus Pdf

Author : Jay Grossman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822384533

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Reconstituting the American Renaissance by Jay Grossman Pdf

Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and the relationship of these two authors to each other. Jay Grossman argues that issues of political representation—involving vexed questions of who shall speak and for whom—lie at the heart of American political and literary discourse from the revolutionary era through the Civil War. By taking the mid-nineteenth-century period, traditionally understood as marking the advent of literary writing in the United States, and restoring to it the ways in which Emerson and Whitman engaged with eighteenth-century controversies, rhetorics, and languages about political representation, Grossman departs significantly from arguments that have traditionally separated American writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Reconstituting the American Renaissance describes how Emerson and Whitman came into the period of their greatest productivity with different conceptions of the functions and political efficacy of the word in the world. It challenges Emerson’s position as Whitman’s necessary precursor and offers a cultural history that emphasizes the two writers’ differences in social class, cultural experience, and political perspective. In their writings between 1830 and 1855, the book finds contrasting conceptions of the relations between the “representative man” and the constituencies to whom, and for whom, he speaks. Reconstituting the American Renaissance opens up the canonical relationship between Emerson and Whitman and multiplies the historical and discursive contexts for understanding their published and unpublished works.

Author : Alan R. Velie,A. Robert Lee
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806151311

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The Native American Renaissance by Alan R. Velie,A. Robert Lee Pdf

The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N. Scott Momaday’s Pulitzer Prize–winning House Made of Dawn in 1968 continues unabated. Fiction and poetry, autobiography and discursive writing from such writers as James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko constitute what critic Kenneth Lincoln in 1983 termed the Native American Renaissance. This collection of essays takes the measure of that efflorescence. The contributors scrutinize writers from Momaday to Sherman Alexie, analyzing works by Native women, First Nations Canadian writers, postmodernists, and such theorists as Robert Warrior, Jace Weaver, and Craig Womack. Weaver’s own examination of the development of Native literary criticism since 1968 focuses on Native American literary nationalism. Alan R. Velie turns to the achievement of Momaday to examine the ways Native novelists have influenced one another. Post-renaissance and postmodern writers are discussed in company with newer writers such as Gordon Henry, Jr., and D. L. Birchfield. Critical essays discuss the poetry of Simon Ortiz, Kimberly Blaeser, Diane Glancy, Luci Tapahonso, and Ray A. Young Bear, as well as the life writings of Janet Campbell Hale, Carter Revard, and Jim Barnes. An essay on Native drama examines the work of Hanay Geiogamah, the Native American Theater Ensemble, and Spider Woman Theatre. In the volume’s concluding essay, Kenneth Lincoln reflects on the history of the Native American Renaissance up to and beyond his seminal work, and discusses Native literature’s legacy and future. The essays collected here underscore the vitality of Native American literature and the need for debate on theory and ideology.

Author : F. O. Matthiessen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1968-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199726882

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American Renaissance by F. O. Matthiessen Pdf

Studies the views of 5 prominent mid-19th century writers on the function and nature of literature and how they applied these views to their works.

Author : Marvin Certon,Marvin Cetron,Owen Davies
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0312303947

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American Renaissance by Marvin Certon,Marvin Cetron,Owen Davies Pdf

Author : Robert E. Abrams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521830648

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Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature by Robert E. Abrams Pdf

In this provocative and original study, Robert E. Abrams argues that in mid-nineteenth-century American writing, new concepts of space and landscape emerge. Abrams explores the underlying frailty of a sense of place in American literature of this period. Sense of place, Abrams proposes, is culturally constructed. It is perceived through the lens of maps, ideas of nature, styles of painting, and other cultural frameworks that can contradict one another or change dramatically over time. Abrams contends that mid-century American writers ranging from Henry D. Thoreau to Margaret Fuller are especially sensitive to instability of sense of place across the span of American history, and that they are ultimately haunted by an underlying placelessness. Many books have explored the variety of aesthetic conventions and ideas that have influenced the American imagination of landscape, but this study introduces the idea of placeless into the discussion, and suggests that it has far-reaching consequences.

Author : Leon Chai
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501745669

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The Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance by Leon Chai Pdf

The Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance illuminates the process by which the cultural legacy of European Romanticism was assimilated by and transformed in the literature of mid-nineteenth-century America. Leon Chai traces the development various governing concepts or tendencies from their genesis in British, French, and German Romantic traditions through their subsequent appropriation by such American writers as Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville. Among the topics he addresses are the shift from allegory to symbolism; selected trends in Romantic science; the secularization of religion; the emergence of a historical consciousness and a philosophy of history; pantheism; the relation of subjectivity to objectivity in Romantic philosophy; and Romantic poets.

Author : Denise Knight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313017070

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Writers of the American Renaissance by Denise Knight Pdf

The American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, and our notions of the 19th-century renaissance have been reevaluated. Mainstream anthologies have been revised to reflect the expanding literary canon, yet resources for readers have remained widely scattered. This book expands earlier definitions of the 19th-century American Renaissance as represented by canonical writers such as Emerson and Poe, covering writers who published popular fiction and dominated the literary marketplace of the day. Included is generous coverage of women writers and writers of color. The volume provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 writers of the period, including Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and many more. Each entry was written by an expert contributor and includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a survey of the writer's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies.