The American Renaissance Reconsidered
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: Walter Benn Michaels |
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: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
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: 1985 |
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: UCSC:32106007000190 |
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: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American Renaissance Reconsidered by : Walter Benn Michaels
The term American Renaissance designates a period in our nation's history when the literary "classics" appeared--works "original" enough to mark a beginning for America's literary history. But the American Renaissance, Donald Pease argues in his introduction, does not belong to the nation's secular history so much as it denotes a rebirth from it: "Independent of the time kept by secular history, the American Renaissance keeps what we could call global Renaissance time--the sacred time a nation claims to renew, when it claims its cultural place as a great nation existing within a world of great nations. Providing each nation with the terms for cultural greatness denied to secular history, the renaissance' is not an occasion occurring within any specific historical time or place so much as it is a moment of cultural achievement that repeatedly demands to be reborn." The American Renaissance Reconsidered examines this demand for rebirth in terms other than those ordained by the American Renaissance itself. In the seven pieces collected here it is reborn, not outside of, but within America's secular history, as the authors examine anew the period of the American Renaissance -- and the period in which its history was written. Contributing authors are Eric J. Sundquist, Jane P. Tompkins, Louis A. Renza, Jonathan Arac, Donald E. Pease, Walter Benn Michaels, and Allen Grossman.
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Total Pages |
: 217 |
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: 1985 |
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: OCLC:490866785 |
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: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American Renaissance Reconsidered by :
Author |
: Robert Luther Duffus |
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: New York, Knopf |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
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: 1928 |
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: UOM:39015013644482 |
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: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American Renaissance by : Robert Luther Duffus
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: Francis Otto Matthiessen |
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: 1962 |
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: OCLC:541832796 |
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: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Renaissance by : Francis Otto Matthiessen
Author |
: Larry J. Reynolds |
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: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2021-09-23 |
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: 9781317615705 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317615700 |
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: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Routledge Introduction to American Renaissance Literature by : Larry J. Reynolds
Examining the most frequently taught works by key writers of the American Renaissance, including Poe, Emerson, Fuller, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Jacobs, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson, this engaging and accessible book offers the crucial historical, social, and political contexts in which they must be studied. Larry J. Reynolds usefully groups authors together for more lively and fruitful discussion and engages with current as well as historical theoretical debates on the area. The book includes essential biographical and historical information to situate and contextualize the literature, and incorporates major relevant criticism in each chapter. Recommended readings for further study, along with a list of works cited, conclude each chapter.
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: David S. Reynolds |
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Total Pages |
: 656 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199782840 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199782849 |
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: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beneath the American Renaissance by : David S. Reynolds
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 |
: F. O. Matthiessen |
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: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 712 |
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: 1968-12-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199878413 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199878412 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Renaissance by : F. O. Matthiessen
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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Total Pages |
: 232 |
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: 1979 |
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: OCLC:886952476 |
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: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American Renaissance by :
Author |
: Jay Grossman |
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: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
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: 2003-07-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822384533 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822384531 |
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: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconstituting the American Renaissance by : Jay Grossman
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.
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Total Pages |
: 207 |
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: 2005 |
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: OCLC:315275865 |
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: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reexamining the American Renaissance by :