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Beneath the American Renaissance : the Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville.
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 obs...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.