| Description |
1 online resource (861 pages) |
| Contents |
CONDITIONS OF LITERARY VOCATION / Michael Davitt Bell -- Beginnings of Professionalism -- Women's Fiction and the Literary Marketplace in the 1850s -- THE LITERATURE OF EXPANSION AND RACE / Eric J. Sundquist -- Exploration and Empire -- The Frontier and American Indians -- The Literature of Slavery and African American Culture -- THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS / Barbara L. Packer -- Unitarian Beginnings -- The Assault on Locke -- Carlyle and the Beginnings of American Transcendentalism -- Annus Mirabilis -- The Establishment and the Movement -- Letters and Social Aims -- The Hope of Reform -- Diaspora -- The Antislavery Years -- NARRATIVE FORMS / Jonathan Arac -- Establishing National Narrative -- Local Narratives -- Personal Narratives -- Literary Narrative -- Crisis of Literary Narrative and Consolidation of National Narrative / Jonathan Arac -- Chronology / Cyrus R.K. Patell |
| Summary |
"The narratives in this volume make for a four-fold perspective on literature: social, cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic; they constitute a basic reassessment of American prose-writing between 1820 and 1865. These narratives place the American literature in an international context, while never losing sight of its distinctive American characteristics, whether colonial, provincial, or national. Together, they offer a compelling and comprehensive revision of the literary importance of early American history and the historical value of early American literature." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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American literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bercovitch, Sacvan
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Patell, Cyrus R. K
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| ISBN |
9781139054706 |
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1139054708 |
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9780511467264 |
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0511467265 |
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