Reconstituting the American Renaissance - Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation

"Jay Grossman powerfully demonstrates how the linguistic cohabits with the political in two of the nineteenth century's most provocative writers." Reconstituting the American Renaissance" thoroughly restructures our understanding of the Emerson/Whitman relationship. Some key, long-held assumptions about these two writers will now have to be completely reconsidered in light of Grossman's original and compelling critiques of all the familiar encounters between these literary giants."--Ed Folsom, editor, "Walt Whitman Quarterly Review"

Sommario

Acknowledgments ix

Abbreviations xi

Introduction: Representative Strategies 1

1. The Rise of the Representational Arts in the United States 28

2. Rereading Emerson/Whitman 75

3. Class Actions 116

4. Representing Men 161

Notes 207

Works Consulted 239

Index 263

Info autore

Jay Grossman is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University.

Riassunto

Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, this title reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and the relationship of these two authors to each other.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Grossman, Jay Grossman, Jay Grossman
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 18.07.2003
• EAN: 9780822331292
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3129-2
• Pagine: 288
• Peso: 726 g
• Illustrazioni: 4 illus., 1 map
• Serie: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; Politikwissenschaft, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA