Download Full eBooks in PDF
The Politics Of Anxiety In Nineteenth Century American Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of The Politics Of Anxiety In Nineteenth Century American Literature book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Justine S. Murison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : American literature
ISBN : 113907881X
Murison explains the impact of neurological medicine on nineteenth-century literature and culture, particularly Hawthorne and Beecher Stowe.
Author : Justine S. Murison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139497633
For much of the nineteenth century, the nervous system was a medical mystery, inspiring scientific studies and exciting great public interest. Because of this widespread fascination, the nerves came to explain the means by which mind and body related to each other. By the 1830s, the nervous system helped Americans express the consequences on the body, and for society, of major historical changes. Literary writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harriet Beecher Stowe, used the nerves as a metaphor to re-imagine the role of the self amidst political, social and religious tumults, including debates about slavery and the revivals of the Second Great Awakening. Representing the 'romance' of the nervous system and its cultural impact thoughtfully and, at times, critically, the fictional experiments of this century helped construct and explore a neurological vision of the body and mind. Murison explains the impact of neurological medicine on nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Author : Marianne Noble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108481335
The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s. It will appeal to undergraduates and scholars seeking new approaches to canonical American authors, psychological theorists of sympathy and empathy, and philosophers of moral philosophy.
Author : Jennifer Travis
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498563420
Nineteenth-Century Americans saw danger lurking everywhere: in railway cars and trolleys, fireplaces and floods, and amid social and political movements, from the abolition of slavery to suffrage. After the Civil War, Americans were shaken by financial panic and a volatile post-slave economy. They were awe-struck and progressively alarmed by technological innovations that promised speed and commercial growth, but also posed unprecedented physical hazard. Most of all, Americans were uncertain, particularly in light of environmental disasters like hurricanes and wildfires, about their own city on a hill and the once indisputable and protective hand of a beneficent God. The disasters, accidents, and social and political upheavals that characterized nineteenth-century culture had enormous explanatory power, metaphoric and real. Today we speak of similar insecurities: financial, informational, environmental, and political, and we obsessively express our worry and fear for the future. Cultural theorist Paul Virilio refers to these feelings as the “threat horizon,” one that endlessly identifies and produces new dangers.Why, he asks, does it seem easier for humanity to imagine a future shaped by ever-deadlier accidents than a decent future? Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth Century American Literature; or, Crash and Burn American invites readers to examine the “threat horizon” through its nascent expression in literary and cultural history. Against the emerging rhetoric of danger in the long nineteenth century, this book examines how a vocabulary of vulnerability in the American imaginary promoted the causes of the structurally disempowered in new and surprising ways, often seizing vulnerability as the grounds for progressive insight. The texts at the heart of this study, from nineteenth-century sensation novels to early twentieth-century journalistic fiction, imagine spectacular collisions, terrifying conflagrations, and all manner of catastrophe, social, political, and environmental. Together they write against illusions of inviolability in a growing technological and managerial culture, and they imagine how the recognition of universal vulnerability may challenge normative representations of social, political, and economic marginality.
Author : Mary Grace Albanese
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009314251
Black Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature intervenes in traditional narratives of 19th-century American modernity by situating Black women at the center of an increasingly connected world. While traditional accounts of modernity have emphasized advancements in communication technologies, animal and fossil fuel extraction, and the rise of urban centers, Mary Grace Albanese proposes that women of African descent combated these often violent regimes through diasporic spiritual beliefs and practices, including spiritual possession, rootwork, midwifery, mesmerism, prophecy, and wandering. It shows how these energetic acts of resistance were carried out on scales large and small: from the constrained corners of the garden plot to the expansive circuits of global migration. By examining the concept of energy from narratives of technological progress, capital accrual and global expansion, this book uncovers new stories that center Black women at the heart of a pulsating, revolutionary world.
Author : Kate Stanley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108426879
This book establishes surprise as a key Emersonian affect, and demonstrates its significance for transatlantic modernism and the philosophy of pragmatism.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCLA:L0106107568
Author : Heike Schaefer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108487382
Demonstrates that the quest for immediacy, or experiences of direct connection and presence, has propelled the development of American literature and media culture.
Author : Bryan M. Santin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108832656
Shows how shifting views on race caused the American conservative movement to surrender highbrow fiction to to progressive liberals.
Author : Justin Parks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009347822
Furnishing a novel take on the poetry of the 1930s within the context of the cultural history of the Depression, this book argues that the period's economic and cultural crisis was accompanied by an epistemological crisis in which cultural producers increasingly cast doubt on language in its ability to represent society.
Author : Jessica Teague
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108840132
Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2013.
Author : Owen Clayton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009348072
The most enduring version of the hobo that has come down from the so-called 'Golden Age of Tramping' (1890s to 1940s) is an American cultural icon, signifying freedom from restraint and rebellion to the established order while reinforcing conservative messages about American exceptionalism, individualism, race, and gender. Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos shows that this 'pioneer hobo' image is a misrepresentation by looking at works created by transient artists and thinkers, including travel literature, fiction, memoir, early feminist writing, poetry, sociology, political journalism, satire, and music. This book explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around 'the hobo' and 'the tramp'. It is the first analysis to frame transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts to travel without money. This book provide new ways for scholars to think about the activity and representation of US transiency.
Author : Paul Downes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107085299
Hobbes, Sovereignty and Early American Literature explores the development of ideas about sovereignty and democracy in the early United States. It looks at Puritan sermons and poetry, founding-era political debates and representations of revolutionary and anti-slavery violence to reveal how Americans imagined the elusive possibility of a democratic sovereignty.
Author : Sarah E. Chinn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009442695
The book is a study of the ways that white radicals deployed the physical and literary image of amputation during the Civil War and Reconstruction to argue for full Black citizenship and against a national reconciliation that reimposed white supremacy. It gives readers a new way to think about the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Author : Thomas Constantinesco
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192668127
Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States examines how pain is represented in a range of literary texts and genres from the nineteenth-century US. It considers the aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical implications of pain across the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Jacobs, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Alice James, as the national culture of pain progressively transformed in the wake of the invention of anesthesia. Through examining the work of nineteenth-century writers, Constantinesco argues that pain, while undeniably destructive, also generates language and identities, and demonstrates how literature participates in theorizing the problems of mind and body that undergird the deep chasms of selfhood, sociality, gender, and race of a formative period in American history. Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States considers first Emerson's philosophy of compensation, which promises to convert pain into gain. It also explores the limitations of this model, showing how Jacobs contests the division of body and mind that underwrites it and how Dickinson challenges its alleged universalism by foregrounding the unshareability of pain as a paradoxical measure of togetherness. It then investigates the concurrent economies of affects in which pain was implicated during and after the Civil War and argues, through the example of James and Phelps, for queer sociality as a response to the heteronormative violence of sentimentalism. The last chapter on Alice James extends the critique of sentimental sympathy while returning to the book's premise that pain is generative and the site of thought. By linking literary formalism with individual and social formation, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States eventually claims close reading as a method to recover the theoretical work of literature.
