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Author | : Lydia G. Fash |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2020-03-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 081394399X |
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Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "great American novels"—Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Melville’s Moby-Dick and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But these great works did not spring fully formed from the heads of their creators. All three relied on conventions of short fiction built up during the "culture of beginnings," the three decades following the War of 1812 when public figures glorified the American past and called for a patriotic national literature. Decentering the novel as the favored form of early nineteenth-century national literature, Lydia Fash repositions the sketch and the tale at the center of accounts of American literary history, revealing how cultural forces shaped short fiction that was subsequently mined for these celebrated midcentury novels and for the first novel published by an African American. In the shorter works of writers such as Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lydia Maria Child, among others, the aesthetic of brevity enabled the beginning idea of a story to take the outsized importance fitted to the culture of beginnings. Fash argues that these short forms, with their ethnic exclusions and narrative innovations, coached readers on how to think about the United States’ past and the nature of narrative time itself. Combining history, print history, and literary criticism, this book treats short fiction as a vital site for debate over what it meant to be American, thereby offering a new account of the birth of a self-consciously national literary tradition.
Author | : Washington Irving |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : Americans |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Erik Redling |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2022-01-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110587645 |
Download Handbook of the American Short Story Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.
Author | : Kristie Hamilton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
Download America's Sketchbook Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In her comprehensive study of American sketch writing, Kristic Hamilton gives new insight into the powers of mass-market intimacy more personal and home-like than home - and into leisure, which as a component of middle-class identity is quite as imperative in its achievement as disciplined morality. Here, also, is a more complex story of the aesthetic, as a class-inflected realm, in which factory women and rural and urban middle-class authors debate the shape of literature and life.
Author | : Michael J. Collins |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2023-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009292811 |
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Comprising new work by leading scholars, this book traces the history of American short fiction and provides original avenues for research.
Author | : David Cusick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Washington Irving |
Publisher | : Orient Blackswan |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) |
ISBN | : 9788125021766 |
Download Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
Author | : Fred Lewis Pattee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Reuben Post Halleck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Download History of American Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume describes the greatest achievements in American literature, from the earliest times to the present. Special attention has been paid to the individual works of great authors, but also to literary movements, ideals, and animating principles, and the relation of all these to English literature. The author hopes this book will inspire students to investigate for themselves the remarkable American record of spirituality, initiative, and democratic accomplishment contained in our national literature.
Author | : William Peterfield Trent |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
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