[PDF] Studies In The American Renaissance 1988 eBook

Author : David S. Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199976406

GET BOOK

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 : Larry J. Reynolds
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300042429

GET BOOK

Political issues and events have always acted as a catalyst on thought and art. In this pioneering study, Larry J. Reynolds argues that the European revolutions of 1848-49 quickened the American literary imagination and shaped the characters, plots, and themes of the American renaissance. He traces the impact of the revolutions on Emerson, Fuller, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Thoreau, showing that the upheavals abroad both inspired and disturbed. Extraordinarily well informed and creative treatment of the influences of the 1848-49 European revolutions on writers of the American Renaissance...The book is especially effective in providing a historical context for reading major writings. It demonstrates influences at work at a number of levels and presents historical narrative and subtle readings of literary texts with equal clarity. Highly recommended.- Choice

Author : Christopher N. Phillips
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108372813

GET BOOK

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 : Various
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,45 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807616192

GET BOOK

Newly available, here is the most comprehensive poetry collection from the half-century between 1820 and 1870. “Among anthologies, there is nothing comparable to Paul Kane’s Poetry of the American Renaissance.”—Harold Bloom

Author : F. O. Matthiessen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 1968-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199878412

GET BOOK

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.