In examining the American Renaissance through the era’s multivalent tropes of seams and seamlessness, Thomson materializes the fabric of antebellum life. In this exploration of major works and recovered texts, Thomson offers a new understanding of the sacred, the self, the city, and the nation in antebellum culture.
In examining the American Renaissance through the era’s multivalent tropes of seams and seamlessness, Thomson materializes the fabric of antebellum life. In this exploration of major works and recovered texts, Thomson offers a new understanding of the sacred, the self, the city, and the nation in antebellum culture.
Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Seams and Seamlessness in Antebellum America Chapter 1: Christ's Seamless Robe and the Material-Spiritual Duality in the American Renaissance Chapter 2: Seam by Seam: Emily Dickinson's Seamless Theory of Mind Chapter 3: The Seamless Web of John S. Sauzade's The Spuytenduyvel Chronicle Chapter 4: Three Literary Men: The Intertwined Lives of Herman Melville, George Washington Peck, and John S. Sauzade Chapter 5: The Seamless Whole: National Fictions in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre (1852),and The Confidence-Man (1857) Chapter 6: Melville's Unraveling in the Angelicalness of PierreEpilogue: Loomings of Futurity in the Seams of Don Delillo's White Noise Works Cited Index About the Author
Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Seams and Seamlessness in Antebellum America Chapter 1: Christ's Seamless Robe and the Material-Spiritual Duality in the American Renaissance Chapter 2: Seam by Seam: Emily Dickinson's Seamless Theory of Mind Chapter 3: The Seamless Web of John S. Sauzade's The Spuytenduyvel Chronicle Chapter 4: Three Literary Men: The Intertwined Lives of Herman Melville, George Washington Peck, and John S. Sauzade Chapter 5: The Seamless Whole: National Fictions in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), Pierre (1852),and The Confidence-Man (1857) Chapter 6: Melville's Unraveling in the Angelicalness of PierreEpilogue: Loomings of Futurity in the Seams of Don Delillo's White Noise Works Cited Index About the Author
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