The American Renaissance
Author | : Robert Luther Duffus |
Publisher | : New York, Knopf |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : American drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Luther Duffus |
Publisher | : New York, Knopf |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : American drama |
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Author | : David S. Reynolds |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199976406 |
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 observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David Reynolds is known. Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson receive striking, original readings set against the rich backdrop of contemporary popular writing. Now back in print, the volume includes a new foreword by historian Sean Wilentz that reveals the book's impact and influence. A magisterial work of criticism and cultural history, Beneath the American Renaissance will fascinate anyone interested in the genesis of America's most significant literary epoch and the iconic figures who defined it.
Author | : Joy Wheeler Dow |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2017-10-30 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780266966241 |
Excerpt from American Renaissance: A Review of Domestic Architecture; Illustrated by Ninety-Six Half-Tone Plates With this in view the author has carefully collated the articles, added some new illustrations, and in some cases the plates have been enlarged where the subjects seemed worthy of fuller representation than was possible in the limited space allowed in the Magazine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : F. O. Matthiessen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 1968-12-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199726884 |
Studies the views of 5 prominent mid-19th century writers on the function and nature of literature and how they applied these views to their works.
Author | : Christopher N. Phillips |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2018-03-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108372813 |
The American Renaissance has been a foundational concept in American literary history for nearly a century. The phrase connotes a period, as well as an event, an iconic turning point in the growth of a national literature and a canon of texts that would shape American fiction, poetry, and oratory for generations. F. O. Matthiessen coined the term in 1941 to describe the years 1850–1855, which saw the publications of major writings by Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. This Companion takes up the concept of the American Renaissance and explores its origins, meaning, and longevity. Essays by distinguished scholars move chronologically from the formative reading of American Renaissance authors to the careers of major figures ignored by Matthiessen, including Stowe, Douglass, Harper, and Longfellow. The volume uses the best of current literary studies, from digital humanities to psychoanalytic theory, to illuminate an era that reaches far beyond the Civil War and continues to shape our understanding of American literature.
Author | : Kenneth Lincoln |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1985-12-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520054578 |
Lincoln presents the writing of today's most gifted Native American authors, against an ethnographic background which should enable a growing number of readers to share his enthusiasm. Lincoln has lived with American Indians, knows them, and is respected by them; all this enhances his book.
Author | : Susanne Hamscha |
Publisher | : Campus Verlag |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2013-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3593398729 |
The Fiction of America juxtaposes classic literature of the American Renaissance with twentieth-century popular culture--pairing, for instance, Ralph Waldo Emerson with Finding Nemo, Walt Whitman with Spiderman, and Hester Prynne with Madonna--to investigate how the "Americanness" of American culture constitutes itself in the interplay of the cultural imaginary and performance. Conceptualizing "America" as a transhistorical practice, Susanne Hamscha reveals disruptive, spectral moments in the narrative of "America," which confront American culture with its inherent inconsistencies.
Author | : Walter Benn Michaels |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9780835780209 |
Author | : Nancy Whipple Grinnell |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2014-01-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1611684951 |
Maud Howe Elliott (1854Ð1948), the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, was a Pulitzer PrizeÐwinning writer and a tireless supporter of the arts, particularly in her adopted city of Newport, Rhode Island. An art historian and the author of over twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including countless articles and short stories, Elliott is perhaps best known for co-writing a biography of her motherÑa major figure in the political and cultural world of New England, a womanÕs suffrage leader, and a leading progressive political voice. Elliott sought to enhance community and regional life by founding the Art Association of Newport in 1912 (now the Newport Art Museum), which she saw as the culmination of her life's work.
Author | : David Leverenz |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2019-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501744143 |
In the view of David Leverenz, such nineteenth-century American male writers as Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman were influenced more profoundly by the popular model of the entrepreneurial "man of force" than they were by their literary precursors and contemporaries. Drawing on the insights of feminist theory, gender studies, psychoanalytical criticism, and social history, Manhood and the American Renaissance demonstrates that gender pressures and class conflicts played as critical a role in literary creation for the male writers of nineteenth-century America as they did for the women writers. Leverenz interprets male American authors in terms of three major ideologies of manhood linked to the social classes in the Northeast-patrician, artisan, and entrepreneurial. He asserts that the older ideologies of patrician gentility and of artisan independence were being challenged from 1820 to 1860 by the new middle-class ideology of competitive individualism. The male writers of the American Renaissance, patrician almost without exception in their backgrounds and self-expectations, were fascinated yet horrified by the aggressive materialism and the rivalry for dominance they witnessed in the undeferential "new men." In close readings of the works both of well-known male literary figures and of then popular authors such as Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and Francis Parkman, Leverenz discovers a repressed center of manhood beset by fears of humiliation and masochistic fantasies. He discerns different patterns in the works of Whitman, with his artisan's background, and Frederick Douglass, who rose from artisan freedom to entrepreneurial power. Emphasizing the interplay of class and gender, Leverenz also considers how women viewed manhood. He concludes that male writers portrayed manhood as a rivalry for dominance, but contemporary female writers saw it as patriarchy. Two chapters contrast the work of the genteel writers Sarah Hale and Caroline Kirkland with the evangelical works of Susan Warner and Harriet Beecher Stowe. A bold and imaginative work, Manhood and the American Renaissance will enlighten and inspire controversy among all students of American literature, nineteenth-century American history, and the relation of gender and literature.