The Cambridge companion to the literature of the American Renaissance /
The American Renaissance has been a foundational concept in American literary history for nearly a century. The phrase connotes a period, as well as an event, an iconic turning point in the growth of a national literature and a canon of texts that would shape American fiction, poetry and oratory for...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction: the very idea of an American Renaissance / Christopher N. Phillips
- Part I. Into the Renaissance. Reading the American Renaissance in a Pennsylvania library / Christopher N. Phillips ; Cooper, Simms, and the boys of summer / Jeffrey Walker ; The trouble with the Gothic: Poe, Lippard, and the poetics of critique / Russell Sbriglia ; Emerson and Hawthorne; or, locating the American Renaissance / Gavin Jones and Judith Richardson ; Cosmopolite at home: global Longfellow / Christoph Irmscher
- Part II. Rethinking the Renaissance. Sins of the rising generation: religion and the American Renaissance / Zachary McLeod Hutchins ; Uncle Tom's Cabin and the struggle over meaning: from slavery to race / Barbara Hochman ; The (im)possibilities of Indianness: George Copway and the problem of representativity / Mark Rifkin ; The poetess at work / Alexandra Socarides ; Fern, Warner, and the work of sentimentality / Jennifer L. Brady ; Melville: the ocean and the city / Wyn Kelley
- Part III. Beyond the Renaissance. Whitman, in and out of the Renaissance / David Haven Blake ; A Renaissance-self: Frederick Douglass and the art of remaking / Zoe Trodd ; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper "In the situation of Ishmael" / Melba Joyce Boyd ; The corner-stones of Heaven: science comes to concord / Laura Dassow Walls
- Coda. War and the Renaissance / Christopher N. Phillips
- Further reading
- Index.