At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature - Brossura

Rowe, John Carlos

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ISBN 10: 0231058950 ISBN 13: 9780231058957

Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 1997

Riassunto

Representative works are interpreted in light of the two great political movements of the nineteenth century: the abolition of slavery and the women's rights movement. By reexamining Emerson, Poe, Melville, Douglass, Walt Whitman, Chopin, and Faulkner and others, Rowe assesses the degree to which major writers' attitudes toward race, class, and gender contribute to specific political reforms in nineteenth and twentieth-century American culture.

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L'autore:

John Carlos Rowe is professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.

Product Description:

Challenges the conventional critical reading of the American poetic project as an engagement with or reaction against Emersonian thought. Rowe demonstrates how ideals of individualism, intellectualism, and otherworldiness inevitably undermine any political effectiveness that a writer may seek to achieve.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Columbia Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0231058950
• ISBN 13: 9780231058957
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 302