Novel nostalgias : the aesthetics of antagonism in nineteenth-century U.S. literature /

"Novel Nostalgias: The Aesthetics of Antagonism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature establishes how the longing to recover a lost home or past drove some of the central conflicts of the nineteenth-century United States. Providing one of the few U.S. literary histories that examines cultural m...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Funchion, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
1800-1899
Nostalgia in literature.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Nostalgia > United States > History > 19th century.
Social conflict in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Nostalgie dans la littérature.
Roman américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Nostalgie > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Social conflict in literature
Nostalgia in literature
Nostalgia
Literature and society
American fiction
United States
Literary criticism
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Bad romances: homesick nationalisms in the antebellum United States
  • Confederate narratives and the problem of reconstruction
  • Longing for a people: Hamlin Garland's and Pauline Hopkins's populist fictions
  • Left nostalgia: revolutionary aesthetics in the radical novel
  • Cosmopolitan nostalgia in L. Frank Baum's Oz and Henry James's America
  • Epilogue: "Taking the country back" in the twenty-first century.

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