Daniel Diez Couch

American Fragments

The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic

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Produktbeschreibung

"Between the independence of the colonies and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous number of literary texts called "fragments." American Fragments recovers this archive of deliberately unfinished writing, and brings attention to the ways these texts dramatically reimagined the place of marginalized individuals in a country that was itself still unfinished"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780812253795
• ISBN-10: 0812253795
• Artikelnr.: 62119763

Autorenporträt

Daniel Diez Couch is Assistant Professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction. Thinking in Parts in American Literature
Chapter 1. Eighteenth-Century Philosophies of the Fragment
Chapter 2. Wounded Bodies and the Typographies of War
Chapter 3. Ruinous Designs and the Novel of Seduction
Chapter 4. Biblical Economy and the Miracle of the Loaves and Fish
Chapter 5. Authentic Authorship and the Composition of Sick Fragments
Epilogue. Fragments in the Nineteenth Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments