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1 online resource (656 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: THE OPEN TEXT: American Writers and Their Environment; PART ONE: GOD'S BOW, MAN'S ARROWS: Religion, Reform, and American Literature; 1. The New Religious Style; 2. The Reform Impulse and the Paradox of Immoral Didacticism; 3. The Transcendentalists, Whitman, and Popular Reform; 4. Hawthorne and the Reform Impulse; 5. Melville's Whited Sepulchres; PART TWO: PUBLIC POISON: Sensationalism and Sexuality; 6. The Sensational Press and the Rise of Subversive Literature; 7. The Erotic Imagination; 8. Poe and Popular Irrationalism |
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9. Hawthorne's Cultural Demons10. Melville's Ruthless Democracy; 11 . Whitman's Transfigured Sensationalism; PART THREE: OTHER AMAZONS: Women's Rights, Women's Wrongs, and the Literary Imagination; 12. Types of American Womanhood; 13. Hawthorne's Heroines; 14. The American Women's Renaissance and Emily Dickinson; PART FOUR: THE GROTESQUE POSTURE: Popular Humor and the American Subversive Style; 15. The Carnivalization of American Language; 16. Transcendental Wild Oats; 17. Whitman's Poetic Humor; 18. Stylized Laughter in Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville |
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Epilogue: RECONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Literary Theory and Literary HistoryNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
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 writi |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Contemporaries
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Contemporaries
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 fast |
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 fast |
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism
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Social problems in literature.
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Sensationalism in literature.
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Social norms in literature.
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Women in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Contemporaries
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Literature and society
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Popular literature
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Sensationalism in literature
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Social norms in literature
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Social problems in literature
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Women in literature
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United States
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010043769 |
| ISBN |
9780199976393 |
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0199976392 |
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9780199782840 |
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0199782849 |
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