| Description |
xvii, 251 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN |
9781108420914 hardback |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 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 J. Boyd -- The corner-stones of Heaven: science comes to concord / Laura Dassow Walls -- Coda: War and the Renaissance / Christopher N. Phillips. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Library Class |
English XA201
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| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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| Other Author |
Phillips, Christopher N. editor.
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| Alt Title |
Literature of the American Renaissance
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