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the subversive imagination in the age of Emerson and Melville
By David S. Reynolds
"Beneath the American Renaissance" was published by Harvard University Press in 1989 - Cambridge, Mass, it has 625 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Beneath the American Renaissance” Metadata:
- Title: ➤ Beneath the American Renaissance
- Author: David S. Reynolds
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 625
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publish Date: 1989
- Publish Location: Cambridge, Mass
“Beneath the American Renaissance” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Contemporaries - History and criticism - Social norms in literature - Popular literature - Literature and society - American literature - Social problems in literature - Sensationalism in literature - History - Women in literature - Reform in literature - Radicalism in literature - Histoire - Sensacionalismo en la literatura - Paralittérature - Literatura y sociedad - Literatur - Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature - Littérature et société - Historia y crítica - Problemas sociales en la literatura - Contemporains - Letterkunde - Littérature américaine - Mujeres en la literatura - Femmes dans la littérature - Histoire et critique - New England Renaissance - Historia - Volkskultur - Sensationnalisme dans la littérature - Literatura popular - Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer - American literature, history and criticism, 19th century - Literatura norte-americana (história e crítica) - Geschichte - Historical criticism (Literature) - Canon (Literature)
- People: ➤ Herman Melville (1819-1891) - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- Places: United States
- Time: 19th century - History and criticism
Edition Specifications:
- Format: Paperback
- Dimensions: 24 x x centimeters
- Pagination: x, 625 p., [16] p. of plates
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL2208803M - OL3474008W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 19396683
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 89031146
- ISBN-13: 9780674065659
- ISBN-10: 0674065654
- All ISBNs: 0674065654 - 9780674065659
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"Beneath the American Renaissance" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Introduction : The open text : American writers and their environment
- 2- Part one : God's bow, man's arrows : religion, reform, and American literature. The new religious style
- 3- The reform impulse and the paradox of immoral didacticism
- 4- The transcendentalists, Whitman, and popular reform
- 5- Hawthorne and the reform impulse
- 6- Part two : Public poison : sensationalism and sexuality. The sensational press and the rise of subversive literature
- 7- The erotic imagination
- 8- Poe and popular irrationalism
- 9- Hawthorne's cultural demons
- 10- Melville's ruthless democracy
- 11- Whitman's transfigured sensationalism
- 12- Part three : Other Amazons : women's rights, women's wrongs, and the literary imagination. Types of American womanhood
- 13- Hawthorne's heroine's
- 14- The American women's renaissance and Emily Dickinson
- 15- Part four : The grotesque posture : popular humor and the American subversive style. The carnivalization of American language
- 16- Transcendental wild oats
- 17- Whitman's poetic humor
- 18- Stylized laughter in Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville
- 19- Epilogue : Reconstructive criticism : literary theory and literary history
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