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Author Reynolds, Larry J

Title The Routledge Introduction to American Renaissance Literature
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (209 p.)
Series Routledge Introductions to American Literature Ser
Routledge Introductions to American Literature Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Longfellow, Poe, and American literary emergence -- 2. Emerson, Thoreau, and transcendentalism -- 3. Fuller, Fern, and women's rights -- 4. Hawthorne, Melville, and suffering humanity -- 5. Douglass, Stowe, Jacobs, and anti-slavery -- 6. Whitman, Dickinson, and the Civil War -- Index
Summary "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 contextualise the literature, and incorporates major relevant criticism into each chapter. Recommended readings for further study, along with a list of works cited, concludes each chapter"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317615712
1317615719