Larry J. Reynolds

The Routledge Introduction to American Renaissance Literature (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the most frequently taught works by key writers of the American Renaissance, including Poe, Emerson, Fuller, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Jacobs, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson, this engaging and accessible book offers the crucial historical, social, and political contexts in which they must be studied. Larry J. Reynolds usefully groups authors together for more lively and fruitful discussion and engages with current as well as historical theoretical debates on the area. The book includes essential biographical and historical information to situate and contextualize the literature, and incorporates major relevant criticism in each chapter. Recommended readings for further study, along with a list of works cited, conclude each chapter.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317615705
• Artikelnr.: 62302355

Autorenporträt

Larry J. Reynolds is a University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University. He is a leading scholar of the American Renaissance and has abundant experience teaching and writing for undergraduate audiences.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Longfellow
Poe
and American Literary Emergence 2. Emerson
Thoreau
and Transcendentalism 3. Fuller
Fern
and Women's Rights 4. Melville
Hawthorne
and Suffering Humanity 5. Douglass
Stowe
Jacobs
and Anti-Slavery 6. Whitman
Dickinson
and the Civil War. Works Cited