Sacred Game - Provincialism Frontier Consciousness in American Literature, 1630

Klappentext This book is a meditation on the theme of provincialism in American literature. Zusammenfassung This book is a meditation on the theme of provincialism in American literature. With careful attention to the historical context! it identifies in the expressions of pre-Civil War writers certain qualities of self-doubt and defensiveness! certain perceptions of displacement and decline! so characteristic as to amount to a defining trait of American literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction: provincialism and the frontier; 1. 'But enmity this amity did break'; 2. 'A musy in the thicket'; 3. Geoffrey Crayon and the gigantic race; 4. Hawthorne's provincial imagination; 5. Working in Eden; 6. Life as art in Americ; 7. Reading God directly: the morbidity of culture; Postscript: tradition and circumstance; Notes; Index.

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• Authors: Albert J. Von Frank, Albert J. von Frank
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.11.2008
• EAN: 9780521090001
• ISBN: 978-0-521-09000-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies