Formalism, experience, and the making of American literature in the nineteenth century
Theo Davis offers a fresh account of the emergence of a national literature in the United States. Taking American literature's universalism as an organising force that must be explained rather than simply exposed, she contends that Emerson, Hawthorne, and Stowe's often noted investigations...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2007.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 153. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42012818*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: new critical formalism and identity in Americanist criticism
- Types of interest: Scottish theory, literary nationalism, and John Neal
- Sensing Hawthorne: the figure of Hawthorne's affect
- "Life is an ecstasy": Ralph Waldo Emerson and A. Bronson Alcott
- Laws of experience: truth and feeling in Harriet Beecher Stowe.
