The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Arac is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. Klappentext In the mid-nineteenth century writers such as Hawthorne and Melville produced works of fiction that even today help define American literature. In this work of innovative literary history! Jonathan Arac explains what made this remarkable creativity possible and what it accomplished. His work also delves into a deep paradox that has haunted American literature: our nation's great works of literary narrative place themselves at a tense distance from our national life. Zusammenfassung In the mid-nineteenth century writers such as Hawthorne and Melville produced works of fiction that even today help define American literature. In this work of innovative literary history! Jonathan Arac explains what made this remarkable creativity possible and what it accomplished.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Arac
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.01.2005
• EAN: 9780674018693
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01869-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 20 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies