THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: VOLUME 2, PROSE WRITING 1820-1865 by Sacvan Bercovitch (Editor) ( 9780521301060 )

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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE: VOLUME 2, PROSE WRITING 1820-1865

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Sacvan Bercovitch (Editor)

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0521301068

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

27 January, 1995

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The Cambridge History of American Literature

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944

Description:

Social, cultural, intellectual and aesthetic account of the American literary Renaissance.

Synopsis:

This is the fullest and richest account of the American Renaissance available in any literary history. The narratives in this volume made for a four-fold perspective on literature: social, cultural, intellectual and aesthetic. Michael D. Bell describes the social conditions of the literary vocation that shaped the growth of a professional literature in the United States. Eric Sundquist draws upon broad cultural patterns: his account of the writings of exploration, slavery, and the frontier is an interweaving of disparate voices, outlooks and traditions. Barbara L. Packer's sources come largely from intellectual history: the theological and philosophical controversies that prepared the way for transcendentalism. Jonathan Arac's categories are formalist: he sees the development of antebellum fiction as a dialectic of prose genres, the emergence of a literary mode out of the clash of national, local and personal forms. Together, these four narratives constitute a basic reassessment of American prose-writing between 1820 and 1865. It is an achievement that will remain authoritative for our time and that will set new directions for coming decades in American literary scholarship.

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