This book is a study of the development of New England literature and literary institutions from the American Revolutionary era to the late nineteenth century. Professor Buell explores the foundations, growth and literary results of the professionalisation of the writing vocation.
This book is a study of the development of New England literature and literary institutions from the American Revolutionary era to the late nineteenth century. Professor Buell explores the foundations, growth and literary results of the professionalisation of the writing vocation.
Produktdetails
Produktdetails
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Part I. Four Overviews: 1. Theoretical premises 2. A narrative overview of New England's literary development 3. Marketplace, ethos, practice: the Antebellum literary situation 4. Neoclassical continuities: the early national era and the New England literary tradition Part II. Three Representative Genres: 5. New England Poetics: Emerson, Dickinson, and others 6. New England oratory from Everett to Emerson 7. Literary scripturism Part III. Reinventing Puritanism: the New England Historical Imagination: 8. The concept of puritan ancestry 9. The politics of historiography 10. Fictionalizing puritan history: some problems and approaches 11. Hawthorne and Stowe as rival interpreters of New England Puritanism Part IV. New England as a Country of the Imagination: The Spirit of Place: 12. The cultural landscape in regional poetry and prose 13. The village as icon 14. Lococentrism from Dwight to Thoreau 15. Comic grotesque 16. Provincial Gothic: Hawthorne, Stoddard, and others Postscript Appendix. Vital statistics: a quantitative analysis of authorship as a profession in New England.
Part I. Four Overviews: 1. Theoretical premises 2. A narrative overview of New England's literary development 3. Marketplace, ethos, practice: the Antebellum literary situation 4. Neoclassical continuities: the early national era and the New England literary tradition Part II. Three Representative Genres: 5. New England Poetics: Emerson, Dickinson, and others 6. New England oratory from Everett to Emerson 7. Literary scripturism Part III. Reinventing Puritanism: the New England Historical Imagination: 8. The concept of puritan ancestry 9. The politics of historiography 10. Fictionalizing puritan history: some problems and approaches 11. Hawthorne and Stowe as rival interpreters of New England Puritanism Part IV. New England as a Country of the Imagination: The Spirit of Place: 12. The cultural landscape in regional poetry and prose 13. The village as icon 14. Lococentrism from Dwight to Thoreau 15. Comic grotesque 16. Provincial Gothic: Hawthorne, Stoddard, and others Postscript Appendix. Vital statistics: a quantitative analysis of authorship as a profession in New England.
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