New England Literary Culture: From Revolution through Renaissance - Brossura

Buell, Lawrence

Brossura

ISBN 10: 052137801X ISBN 13: 9780521378017

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

This book is a study of the development of New England literature and literary institutions from the American Revolutionary era to the late nineteenth century.

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Descrizione del libro

This book is a study of the development of New England literature and literary institutions from the American Revolutionary era to the late nineteenth century. Professor Buell explores the foundations, growth and literary results of the professionalisation of the writing vocation.

Contenuti

Part I. Four Overviews: 1. Theoretical premises; 2. A narrative overview of New England's literary development; 3. Marketplace, ethos, practice: the Antebellum literary situation; 4. Neoclassical continuities: the early national era and the New England literary tradition; Part II. Three Representative Genres: 5. New England Poetics: Emerson, Dickinson, and others; 6. New England oratory from Everett to Emerson; 7. Literary scripturism; Part III. Reinventing Puritanism: the New England Historical Imagination: 8. The concept of puritan ancestry; 9. The politics of historiography; 10. Fictionalizing puritan history: some problems and approaches; 11. Hawthorne and Stowe as rival interpreters of New England Puritanism; Part IV. New England as a Country of the Imagination: The Spirit of Place: 12. The cultural landscape in regional poetry and prose; 13. The village as icon; 14. Lococentrism from Dwight to Thoreau; 15. Comic grotesque; 16. Provincial Gothic: Hawthorne, Stoddard, and others; Postscript; Appendix. Vital statistics: a quantitative analysis of authorship as a profession in New England.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 052137801X
• ISBN 13: 9780521378017
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 528
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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