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The complicity of imagination : the American renaissance, contests of authority, and seventeenth-century English culture /
The Complicity of Imagination examines the rich and complex relationship between four nineteenth-century authors and the culture and politics of seventeenth-century England. Challenging the notion that antebellum Americans were burdened by a sense of cultural inferiority in both their thought and th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
106. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Complicity of Imagination examines the rich and complex relationship between four nineteenth-century authors and the culture and politics of seventeenth-century England. Challenging the notion that antebellum Americans were burdened by a sense of cultural inferiority in both their thought and their writing, this study portrays an American Renaissance whose writers were familiar enough with the literature and controversies of seventeenth-century England to appropriate its cultural artifacts for their own purposes. American writers such as Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau, and Melville consciously absorbed literary, philosophical, and political strategies from their reading in the earlier period in order to interrogate the orthodoxies of American Whigs, as well as the agenda of the radical Democratic 'Young Americans.' By exploring the broader cultural implications of intertextual relationships, this book demonstrates how literary texts participate in the artistic, political, and theological tensions within American culture. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 294 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-280) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511003730 9780511003738 9780521495387 0521495385 0511887949 9780511887949 0511585462 9780511585463 |