Author: Clarence GohdesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 191
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American Literature in Nineteenth Century England
Author: Clarence GohdesAmerican Literature in Nineteenth Century England (Classic Reprint)
Author: Clarence GohdesPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780260373892
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Excerpt from American Literature in Nineteenth Century England During the years which have been devoted to the preparation of this work I have often profited by the kindness of others. Librarians have been especially helpful, and I wish to express my gratitude to the stafis of the following institutions: the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Huntington Library, the Harvard College Library, the Columbia University Library, and, last but not least, the Library of Duke University. To Mr. F. L. Kent, Assistant Keeper of Books in the British Museum, I am obligated for biblio graphical information assembled by himself or by Mrs. Kent. To Mr. Frederick B. Tolles, Mr. Ellis Raesly, Miss Ellen Frey, Miss Amy Cruse, and Professor Richard H. Heindel, I am grateful for various types of information. Professor Emery E. Neff, Professor Paull F. Baum, Professor Howard F. Lowry, Professor Lewis Leary, and Mr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
In the Company of Books
Author: Sarah WadsworthPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9781558495418
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Tracing the segmentation of the literary marketplace in 19th century America, this book analyses the implications of the subdivided literary field for readers, writers, and literature itself.
John Neal and Nineteenth-century American Literature and Culture
Author: Edward WattsPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1611484200
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
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.
Secondary Heroines in Nineteenth-Century British and American Novels
Author: Dr Jennifer CamdenPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409475743
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Taking up works by Samuel Richardson, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Walter Scott, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick, among others, Jennifer B. Camden examines the role of female characters who, while embodying the qualities associated with heroines, fail to achieve this status in the story. These "secondary heroines," often the friend or sister of the primary heroine, typically disappear from the action of the novel as the courtship plot progresses, only to return near the conclusion of the action with renewed demands on the reader's attention. Accounting for this persistent pattern, Camden suggests, reveals the cultural work performed by these unusual figures in the early history of the novel. Because she is often a far more vivid character than the heroine of the marriage plot, the secondary heroine inevitably engages the reader's interest in her plight. That the narrative apparently seeks to suppress her creates tension and points to the secondary heroine as a site of contested identity who represents an ideology of womanhood and nationhood at odds with the national ideals represented by the primary heroine, whom the reader is asked to embrace. In showing how the anxiety produced by these ideals is displaced onto the secondary heroine, Camden's study represents an important intervention into the ways in which early novels use character to further ideologies of race, class, sex, and gender.
American Literature in 19th Century England
Author: Clarence L. F.. GohdesPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 191
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Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Author: Marianne NoblePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108627587
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
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In accessible and impassioned discussions of literature and philosophy, this book reveals a surprising approach to the intractable problem of human contact. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Emily Dickinson rethought the nature of human contact, turning away from transcendentalist approaches and towards sympathetic ones. Their second and third works portray social masks as insufficient, not deceptive, and thus human contact requires not violent striking through the mask but benevolent skepticism towards persons. They imagine that people feel real in a real world with real others when they care for others for the other's sake and when they make caring relationships the cornerstone of their own being. Grounded in philosophies of sympathy - including Adam Smith and J. G. Herder - and relational psychology - Winnicott and Benjamin - Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature shows that antebellum literature rejects individualist definitions of the human and locates the antidote to human disconnection in sympathy.
The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Author: Justine S. MurisonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139497634
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
For much of the nineteenth century, the nervous system was a medical mystery, inspiring scientific studies and exciting great public interest. Because of this widespread fascination, the nerves came to explain the means by which mind and body related to each other. By the 1830s, the nervous system helped Americans express the consequences on the body, and for society, of major historical changes. Literary writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harriet Beecher Stowe, used the nerves as a metaphor to re-imagine the role of the self amidst political, social and religious tumults, including debates about slavery and the revivals of the Second Great Awakening. Representing the 'romance' of the nervous system and its cultural impact thoughtfully and, at times, critically, the fictional experiments of this century helped construct and explore a neurological vision of the body and mind. Murison explains the impact of neurological medicine on nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Fernando Pessoa and Nineteenth-century Anglo-American Literature
Author: George MonteiroPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813132709
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : pt
Pages : 216
Book Description
Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Author: Monika M ElbertPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317671783
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
American publishing in the long nineteenth century was flooded with readers, primers, teaching-training manuals, children’s literature, and popular periodicals aimed at families. These publications attest to an abiding faith in the power of pedagogy that has its roots in transatlantic Romantic conceptions of pedagogy and literacy. The essays in this collection examine the on-going influence of Romanticism in the long nineteenth century on American thinking about education, as depicted in literary texts, in historical accounts of classroom dynamics, or in pedagogical treatises. They also point out that though this influence was generally progressive, the benefits of this social change did not reach many parts of American society. This book is therefore an important reference for scholars of Romantic studies, American studies, historical pedagogy and education.