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The Cambridge companion to the literature of the American Renaissance / edited by Christopher N. Phillips.

Phillips, Christopher N., editor.
2018
PS201 .C25 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
The Cambridge companion to the literature of the American Renaissance / edited by Christopher N. Phillips.
ISBN
9781108420914 (hardcover)
1108420915 (hardcover)
9781108431088 (paperback)
1108431089 (paperback)
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 251 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PS201 .C25 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9/003
Summary
"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. This volume uses the best of current literary studies to illuminate an era that reaches far beyond the Civil War and continues to shape our understanding of American literature" -- Back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Phillips, Christopher N., editor.
Series
Cambridge companions to literature.
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List of figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Chronology
Introduction: the very idea of an American Renaissance / Christopher N. Phillips
Part I. Into the Renaissance. Reading the American Renaissance in a Pennsylvania library / Christopher N. Phillips ; Cooper, Simms, and the boys of summer / Jeffrey Walker ; The trouble with the Gothic: Poe, Lippard, and the poetics of critique / Russell Sbriglia ; Emerson and Hawthorne; or, locating the American Renaissance / Gavin Jones and Judith Richardson ; Cosmopolite at home: global Longfellow / Christoph Irmscher
Part II. Rethinking the Renaissance. Sins of the rising generation: religion and the American Renaissance / Zachary McLeod Hutchins ; Uncle Tom's Cabin and the struggle over meaning: from slavery to race / Barbara Hochman ; The (im)possibilities of Indianness: George Copway and the problem of representativity / Mark Rifkin ; The poetess at work / Alexandra Socarides ; Fern, Warner, and the work of sentimentality / Jennifer L. Brady ; Melville: the ocean and the city / Wyn Kelley
Part III. Beyond the Renaissance. Whitman, in and out of the American Renaissance / David Haven Blake ; A Renaissance-self: Frederick Douglass and the art of remaking / Zoe Trodd ; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "In the situation of Ishmael" / Melba Joyce Boyd ; The corner-stones of Heaven: science comes to concord / Laura Dassow Walls
Coda. War and the Renaissance / Christopher N. Phillips
Further reading
Index.

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