Old Style : Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature /

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An aesthetic of unoriginality shaped literary style and reader taste for decades of the nineteenth century. While critics in the twentieth century and beyond have upheld originality and innovation as essential characteristics of literary achievement, they were not features particularly prized by ear...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stokes, Claudia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Temas:
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Conservatism and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Conservatism in literature.
Imitation in literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
Originality in literature.
Literatur
Nachahmung
Originalität
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Cultural Studies.
Literature.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I. UNORIGINALITY ON THE MARGINS
  • Chapter 1. The Poetics of Unoriginality: The Case of Lucretia Davidson
  • Chapter 2. Novel Commonplaces: Quotation, Epigraphs, and Literary Authority
  • Chapter 3. A Few Good Books: Rereading and the Virtues of Familiarity
  • PART II. ELITIST CONSERVATISM AND THE DEFENSE OF TRADITION
  • Chapter 4. Old Friends in New Dress: James Fenimore Cooper and the Politics of the Sequel
  • Chapter 5. Longfellow's Antiquarianism
  • Chapter 6. Thomas Bailey Aldrich and the End of Tradition
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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