Title American Literary-Political Engagements : From Poe to James

Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (138 pages) Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX Summary American Literary-Political Engagements: From Poe to James examines how authors in the nineteenth-century United States often engaged the politics of their times through literature as they conceptualized political issues in literary terms. Concerns over Jacksonian democracy, social reform in a rapidly industrializing American economy, African-American familial cooperation in the post-Civil War era, changing conceptions of culpability Other respect to the law, and marginalized individuals' invo .. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-126) and index Notes English Print version record Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Politics in literature. Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers. Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature Politics and literature Politics in literature United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781443842754 1443842753

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