American Literature In Transition 1851 1877

Author : Cody Marrs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1108464955

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American Literature in Transition, 1851-1877 by Cody Marrs Pdf

"Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition provides an omnibus account of American literature and its ever-evolving field of study. Emphasizing the ways in which American literature has been in transition ever since its founding, this revisionary series examines four phases of American literary history, focusing on the movements, forms, and media that developed from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. The mutable nature of American literature is explored throughout these volumes, which consider a diverse and dynamic set of authors, texts, and methods. Encompassing the full range of today's literary scholarship, this series is an essential guide to the study of nineteenth-century American literature and culture"--

Author : Cody Marrs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108682015

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American Literature in Transition, 1851–1877 by Cody Marrs Pdf

Between 1851 and 1877, the U.S. underwent a whirlwind of change. This volume offers a fresh account of this important era, assessing the many developments - both major and minor - that transformed American literature. In a wide range of chapters, scholars re-examine literary history before, during, and after the Civil War, revealing significant changes not only in how literature is written but also in how it is conceived, distributed, and consumed. Cutting across literary periods that are typically considered separate and distinct, and incorporating an array of methods and approaches, this volume discloses the Long Civil War to be an era of ongoing struggle and cultural contestation. It thus captures the dynamism of this period in American literary history as well as its ever-evolving field of study.

Author : Justine S. Murison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108675567

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American Literature in Transition, 1820–1860: Volume 2 by Justine S. Murison Pdf

The essays in American Literature in Transition, 1820-1860 offer a new approach to the antebellum era, one that frames the age not merely as the precursor to the Civil War but as indispensable for understanding present crises around such issues as race, imperialism, climate change, and the role of literature in American society. The essays make visible and usable the period's fecund imagined futures, futures that certainly included disunion but not only disunion. Tracing the historical contexts, literary forms and formats, global coordinates, and present reverberations of antebellum literature and culture, the essays in this volume build on existing scholarship while indicating exciting new avenues for research and teaching. Taken together, the essays in this volume make this era's literature relevant for a new generation of students and scholars.

Author : Juliana Chow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108845717

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Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History by Juliana Chow Pdf

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of dispersal. It will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-Century American literature and Literature and the Environment.

Author : Scott M. Reznick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198891970

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Political Liberalism and the Rise of American Romanticism by Scott M. Reznick Pdf

Political Liberalism and the Rise of American Romanticism explores how American Romanticism developed in response to pervasive conflicts over democracy's moral dimensions in the early republic and antebellum eras. By recovering the long-under-examined tradition of political liberalism for literary studies, it traces how US writers reacted to ongoing moral and political conflict by engaging with liberal thinkers and ideas as they endeavored to understand how individuals beholden to a divergent array of moral convictions might nevertheless share a stable and just political world—the very dilemma at the core of political liberalism. This study demonstrates how those philosophical engagements sparked Romanticism's rise and eventual flourishing as US writers increasingly embraced Romantic literary modes emphasizing the imagination's capacity for creative synthesis and the role it plays in shoring up the habits of mind and feeling that are vital to a meaningful democratic culture. It offers revisionary readings of works by Charles Brockden Brown, Robert Montgomery Bird, James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and Nathaniel Hawthorne to show how these Romantic writers were preoccupied with how individuals come to embrace their deepest convictions and what happens when they encounter others who see the world differently.

Author : William Huntting Howell,Greta LaFleur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108617048

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American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828 by William Huntting Howell,Greta LaFleur Pdf

This volume presents a complex portrait of the United States of America grappling with the trials of national adolescence. Topics include (but are not limited to): the dynamics of language and power, the treachery of memory, the lived experience of racial and economic inequality, the aesthetics of Indigeneity, the radical possibilities of disability, the fluidity of gender and sexuality, the depth and culture-making power of literary genre, the history of poetics, the cult of performance, and the hidden costs of foodways. Taken together, the essays offer a vision of a vibrant, contradictory, and conflicted early US Republic resistant to consensus accountings and poised to inform new and better origin stories for the polity to come.

Author : Lindsay V. Reckson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108801867

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American Literature in Transition, 1876–1910: Volume 4 by Lindsay V. Reckson Pdf

Addressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period's immense transformations while troubling the ideology of progress that underwrote much of its self-understanding. This volume queries the various forms and formations of post-Reconstruction American literature. It contends that the literature of this period, most often referred to as 'turn-of-the-century' might be more productively oriented by the end of Reconstruction and the haunting aftermath of its emancipatory potential than by the logic of temporal and social advance that underwrote the end of the century and the beginning of the Progressive Era. Acknowledging that nearly all US literature after 1876 might be described as post-Reconstruction, the volume invites readers to reframe this period by asking: under what terms did post-Reconstruction American literature challenge or re-consolidate the 'nation' as an affective, political, and discursive phenomenon? And what kind of alternative pasts and futures did it write into existence?

Author : Brian Yothers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781640140691

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Why Antislavery Poetry Matters Now by Brian Yothers Pdf

This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history. The poetry of the transatlantic abolitionist movement represented a powerful alliance across racial and religious boundaries; today it challenges the demarcation in literary studies between cultural and aesthetic approaches. Now is a particularly apt moment for its study. This book is a history of the nineteenth-century poetry of slavery and freedom framed as an argument about the nature of poetry itself: why we write it, why we read it, how it interacts with history. Poetry that speaks to a broad cross-section of society with moral authority, intellectual ambition, and artistic complexity mattered in the fraught years of the mid nineteenth century; Brian Yothers argues that it can and must matter today. Yothers examines antislavery poetry in light of recent work by historians, scholars in literary, cultural, and rhetorical studies, African-Americanists, scholars of race and gender studies, and theorists of poetics. That interdisciplinary sweep is mirrored by the range of writers he considers: from the canonical - Whitman, Barrett Browning, Beecher Stowe, DuBois, Melville - to those whose influence has faded - Longfellow, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, John Pierpont, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell - to African American writers whose work has been recovered in recent decades - James M. Whitfield, William Wells Brown, George Moses Horton, Frances E. W. Harper.

Author : Cody Marrs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192699718

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Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies by Cody Marrs Pdf

When people think about Herman Melville, they often think about experiences of madness, horror, and the sublime. But throughout his life, Melville was deeply and persistently interested in beauty. In this fascinating book, Cody Marrs retraces Melville's engagements with beauty and provides a revisionary account of Melville's philosophy, aesthetics, and literary career. In writings such as Moby-Dick, Timoleon, and Weeds and Wildings, Melville reflects on the nature, origins, and effects of beauty, and the ways in which beauty is inexorably bound up with considerations of religion, science, ecology, art, literature, and metaphysics. Melville's writing indicates that beauty is, ultimately, an experience of non-sovereignty, a felt recognition of the self's interdependence. In a series of fresh readings of Melville's works, ranging from the most to the least canonical, Marrs demonstrates how and why Melville developed this understanding of beauty, and the ways it resonates with recent scholarship on aesthetics, posthumanism, ecocriticism, materialism, and the means and methods of American literary studies. By recentring Melville's treatment of beauty and exploring its philosophical and scholarly implications, Marrs provides a new, evocative perspective on Melville as well as the broader field of American literary studies.

Author : Mark W. Van Wienen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1316507696

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American Literature in Transition, 1910-1920 by Mark W. Van Wienen Pdf

Author : Lindsay Vail Reckson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1108732917

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American Literature in Transition, 1876-1910 by Lindsay Vail Reckson Pdf

"Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition provides an omnibus account of American literature and its ever-evolving field of study. Emphasizing the ways in which American literature has been in transition ever since its founding, this revisionary series examines four phases of American literary history, focusing on the movements, forms, and media that developed from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. The mutable nature of American literature is explored throughout these volumes, which consider a diverse and dynamic set of authors, texts, and methods. Encompassing the full range of today's literary scholarship, this series is an essential guide to the study of nineteenth-century American literature and culture"--

Author : Justine S. Murison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1108466753

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American Literature in Transition, 1820-1860 by Justine S. Murison Pdf

"Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition provides an omnibus account of American literature and its ever-evolving field of study. Emphasizing the ways in which American literature has been in transition ever since its founding, this revisionary series examines four phases of American literary history, focusing on the movements, forms, and media that developed from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. The mutable nature of American literature is explored throughout these volumes, which consider a diverse and dynamic set of authors, texts, and methods. Encompassing the full range of today's literary scholarship, this series is an essential guide to the study of nineteenth-century American literature and culture"--

Author : Brian Harding
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315535883

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American Literature in Context by Brian Harding Pdf

First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation’s literature has developed. Covering the years from 1830 to 1865, this second volume of American Literature in Context examines twelve major American writers of the three decades before the Civil War, including Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. The book also analyses the writing of two contemporary historians, an intellectual Journalist and Abraham Lincoln. Among the major themes discussed the religious heritage of New England Transcendentalism, sectional rivalries, tensions between self-culture and social awareness, and the widening gulf between the idea of national destiny and the fact of growing disunity. In addition, the dominant literary forms of the period – sermon, essay, travelogue – are related to the common cultural assumptions of the age. This book will be of interest to those studying American literature and American studies.

Author : Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997*
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0028223314

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American History by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Pdf

Author : Justine S. Murison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108475361

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American Literature in Transition, 1820-1860: Volume 2 by Justine S. Murison Pdf

The essays in American Literature in Transition, 1820-1860 offer a new approach to the antebellum era, one that frames the age not merely as the precursor to the Civil War but as indispensable for understanding present crises around such issues as race, imperialism, climate change, and the role of literature in American society. The essays make visible and usable the period's fecund imagined futures, futures that certainly included disunion but not only disunion. Tracing the historical contexts, literary forms and formats, global coordinates, and present reverberations of antebellum literature and culture, the essays in this volume build on existing scholarship while indicating exciting new avenues for research and teaching. Taken together, the essays in this volume make this era's literature relevant for a new generation of students and scholars.