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American Romanticism and the Marketplace

Author : Michael T. Gilmore
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226293947
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book American Romanticism and the Marketplace written by Michael T. Gilmore and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book can take its place on the shelf beside Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land and Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden."—Choice "[Gilmore] demonstrates the profound, sustained, engagement with society embodied in the works of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and Melville. In effect, he relocates the American Renaissance where it properly belongs, at the centre of a broad social, economic, and ideological movement from the Jacksonian era to the Civil War. Basically, Gilmore's argument concerns the writers' participation in what Thoreau called 'the curse of trade.' He details their mixed resistance to and complicity in the burgeoning literary marketplace and, by extension, the entire ' economic revolution' which between 1830 and 1860 'transformed the United States into a market society'. . . . "The result is a model of literary-historical revisionism. Gilmore's opening chapters on Emerson and Thoreau show that 'transcendental' thought and language can come fully alive when understood within the material processes and ideological constraints of their time. . . . The remaining five chapters, on Hawthorne and Melville, contain some of the most penetrating recent commentaries on the aesthetic strategies of American Romantic fiction, presented within and through some of the most astute, thoughtful considerations I know of commodification and the 'democratic public' in mid-nineteenth-century America. . . . Practically and methodologically, American Romanticism and the Marketplace has a significant place in the movement towards a new American literary history. It places Gilmore at the forefront of a new generation of critics who are not just reinterpreting familiar texts or discovering new texts to interpret, but reshaping our ways of thinking about literature and culture."—Sacvan Bercovitch, Times Literary Supplement "Gilmore writes with energy, clarity, and wit. The reader is enriched by this book." William H. Shurr, American Literature

Literature and the Marketplace

Author : William G. Rowland
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803239180
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Literature and the Marketplace written by William G. Rowland and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature and the Marketplace addresses one of the great ironies of nineteenth-century British and American literature: the fact that authors of that era, in voicing their alienation from middle-class readers, paradoxically gave expression to feelings of alienation felt by those same readers. As William G. Rowland Jr. points out, romantic writers "thought of the market as conspiring against 'imagination' (Blake) or 'telling the truth' (Melville)" and consequently felt frustrated with literary institutions. Yet their "frustrations, " writes Rowland, "helped to energize romantic work and explain its subsequent and continuing appeal." The book opens with a survey of reading publics in Great Britain and the United States in the early years of the nineteenth century. Rowland then presents individual writers-including Wordsworth, Shelley, Hawthorne, Poe, and Emerson-and their relations to their readers. Finally, Rowland shows how the idea of genius was developed by writers as different as Coleridge, Blake, Whitman, and Dickinson and how that idea evolved as an antidote to the commercial literary marketplace of the nineteenth century. A wide-ranging and provocative book, Literature and the Marketplace describes the relations between important British and American authors and the audiences and publishing industries of their era-relations that were troubled, uncertain, and remarkably productive of literature. William G. Rowland Jr. is the Director of Studies at Hereford Residential College, University of Virginia. This is his first book.

Handbook of American Romanticism

Author : Philipp Löffler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110592231
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of American Romanticism written by Philipp Löffler and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of American Romanticism presents a comprehensive survey of the various schools, authors, and works that constituted antebellum literature in the United States. The volume is designed to feature a selection of representative case studies and to assess them within two complementary frameworks: the most relevant historical, political, and institutional contexts of the antebellum decades and the consequent (re-)appropriations of the Romantic period by academic literary criticism in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education

Author : Clemens Spahr
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793649553
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education written by Clemens Spahr and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education focuses on three Romantic educational genres and their institutional and media contexts: the conversation, literary journalism, and the public lecture. The genres discussed in this book illustrate the ways in which the Transcendentalists engaged nineteenthcentury media and educational institutions in order to fully realize their projects. The book also charts the development from the semi-public conversational platforms such as Alcott’s Temple School and Fuller’s conversations for women in the 1830s to the increasingly public periodical culture and lecture platforms of the 1840s and the early 1850s. This expansion caused a reconsideration of the meaning and function of Romanticism.

American Romanticism

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book American Romanticism written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace

Author : Holly Faith Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135192575X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace written by Holly Faith Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to the resurgence of interest in the Scottish working-class writer James Hogg, Sharon Alker and Holly Faith Nelson offer the first edited collection devoted to an examination of the critical implications of his writings and their position in the Edinburgh and London literary marketplaces. Writing during a particularly complex time in Scottish literary history, Hogg, a working shepherd for much of his life, is seen to challenge many of the aesthetic conventions adopted by his contemporaries and to anticipate many of the concerns voiced in discussions of literature in recent years. While the essays privilege Hogg's primary texts and read them closely in their immediate cultural context, the volume's contributors also introduce relevant research on oral culture, nationalism, transnationalism, intertextuality, class, colonialism, empire, psychology, and aesthetics where they serve to illuminate Hogg's literary ingenuity as a working-class writer in Romantic Scotland.

Aesthetic Materialism

Author : Paul Gilmore
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804770972
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Materialism written by Paul Gilmore and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism focuses on American romantic writers' attempts to theorize aesthetic experience through the language of electricity. In response to scientific and technological developments, most notably the telegraph, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century electrical imagery reflected the mysterious workings of the physical mind as well as the uncertain, sometimes shocking connections between individuals. Writers such as Whitman, Melville, and Douglass drew on images of electricity and telegraphy to describe literature both as the product of specific economic and social conditions and as a means of transcending the individual determined by such conditions. Aesthetic Materialism moves between historical and cultural analysis and close textual reading, challenging readers to see American literature as at once formal and historical and as a product of both aesthetic and material experience.

The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth

Author : Eileen K. Cheng
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820330736
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth written by Eileen K. Cheng and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American historians of the early national period, argues Eileen Ka-May Cheng, grappled with objectivity, professionalism, and other “modern” issues to a greater degree than their successors in later generations acknowledge. Her extensive readings of antebellum historians show that by the 1820s, a small but influential group of practitioners had begun to develop many of the doctrines and concerns that undergird contemporary historical practice. The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth challenges the entrenched notion that America’s first generations of historians were romantics or propagandists for a struggling young nation. Cheng engages with the works of well-known early national historians like George Bancroft, William Prescott, and David Ramsay; such lesser-known figures as Jared Sparks and Lorenzo Sabine; and leading political and intellectual elites of the day, including Francis Bowen and Charles Francis Adams. She shows that their work, which focused on the American Revolution, was often nuanced and surprisingly sympathetic in its treatment of American Indians and loyalists. She also demonstrates how the rise of the novel contributed to the emergence of history as an autonomous discipline, arguing that paradoxically “early national historians at once described truth in opposition to the novel and were influenced by the novel in their understanding of truth.” Modern historians should recognize that the discipline of history is itself a product of history, says Cheng. By taking seriously a group of too-often-dismissed historians, she challenges contemporary historians to examine some ahistorical aspects of the way they understand their own discipline.

American Studies

Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521365598
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book American Studies written by Jack Salzman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-05-25 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.

The Market Revolution

Author : Charles Sellers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199762422
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Market Revolution written by Charles Sellers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-19 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Market Revolution, one of America's most distinguished historians offers a major reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in United States history. Based on impeccable scholarship and written with grace and style, this volume provides a sweeping political and social history of the entire period from the diplomacy of John Quincy Adams to the birth of Mormonism under Joseph Smith, from Jackson's slaughter of the Indians in Georgia and Florida to the Depression of 1819, and from the growth of women's rights to the spread of the temperance movement. Equally important, he offers a provocative new way of looking at this crucial period, showing how the boom that followed the War of 1812 ignited a generational conflict over the republic's destiny, a struggle that changed America dramatically. Sellers stresses throughout that democracy was born in tension with capitalism, not as its natural political expression, and he shows how the massive national resistance to commercial interests ultimately rallied around Andrew Jackson. An unusually comprehensive blend of social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history, this accessible work provides a challenging analysis of this period, with important implications for the study of American history as a whole. It will revolutionize thinking about Jacksonian America.

American Romanticism

Author : Jennifer A. Hurley
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613642460
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book American Romanticism written by Jennifer A. Hurley and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2000-01-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays explore the social, philosophical, and political trends that influenced Romanticism.

Reader's Guide to Literature in English

Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135314179
Total Pages : 1024 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Reader's Guide to Literature in English written by Mark Hawkins-Dady and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.

Nineteenth-Century Individualism and the Market Economy

Author : Luke Philip Plotica
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319621726
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Individualism and the Market Economy written by Luke Philip Plotica and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies nineteenth-century American individualism and its relationship to the simultaneous rise of the market economy as articulated in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William Graham Sumner. The argument of the book is that these thinkers offer distinct visions of individualism that reflect their respective understandings of the market, and provide thoughtful and insightful perspectives upon the promise and peril of this economic and social order. Looking back to Emerson, Thoreau, and Sumner furnishes valuable insights about the history of American political and social thought, as well as about the complexity of one of the most basic and prevalent relationships of modern life: that between the individual and the institutional complex of the market.

Modernizing Solitude

Author : Yoshiaki Furui
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817320067
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Modernizing Solitude written by Yoshiaki Furui and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative and timely examination of the concept of solitude in nineteenth-century American literature During the nineteenth century, the United States saw radical developments in media and communication that reshaped concepts of spatiality and temporality. As the telegraph, the postal system, and public transportation became commonplace, the country achieved a level of connectedness that was never possible before. At this level, physical isolation no longer equaled psychological separation from the exterior world, and as communication networks proliferated, being disconnected took on negative cultural connotations. Though solitude, and the lack thereof, is a pressing concern in today’s culture of omnipresent digital connectivity, Yoshiaki Furui shows that solitude has been a significant preoccupation since the nineteenth-century. The obsession over solitude is evidenced by many writers of the period, with consequences for many basic notions of creativity, art, and personal and spiritual fulfillment. In Modernizing Solitude: The Networked Individual in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Furui examines, among other works, Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Emily Dickinson’s poetry and letters, and telegraphic literature in the 1870s to identify the virtues and values these writers bestowed upon solitude in a time and place where it was being consistently threatened or devalued. Although each writer has a unique way of addressing the theme, they all aim to reclaim solitude as a positive, productive state of being that is essential to the writing process and personal identity. Employing a cross-disciplinary approach to understand modern solitude and the resulting literature, Furui seeks to historicize solitude by anchoring literary works in this revolutionary yet interim period of American communication history, while also applying theoretical insights into the literary analysis.

John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

Author : Edward Watts
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1611484219
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture written by Edward Watts and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture is a critical reassessment of American novelist, editor, critic, and activist John Neal, arguing for his importance to the ongoing reassessment of the American Renaissance and the broader cultural history of the Nineteenth Century. Contributors (including scholars from the United States, Germany, England, Italy, and Israel) present Neal as an innovative literary stylist, penetrating cultural critic, pioneering regionalist, and vital participant in the business of letters in America over his sixty-year career.

An Enquiry into the Ideology and Reality of Market and Market System

Author : J. Lepper
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230346804
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book An Enquiry into the Ideology and Reality of Market and Market System written by J. Lepper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do markets exist? How are they maintained? What are market systems and how are they formed? This book addresses these fundamental questions and challenges the traditional view that markets and market systems are 'natural', asserting instead that they are ideologically coloured and of dubious scientific value.

Romanticism and Transcendentalism

Author : Jerry R. Phillips
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1604134860
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Romanticism and Transcendentalism written by Jerry R. Phillips and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of American literature from 1800 through 1860 that examines the social, cultural, and historical contexts of the time, and provides information on romanticism, transcendentalism, American idealism, social reform movements, specific authors, and other related topics.