Handbook of American romanticism
Frontmatter -- The Editors’ Preface -- Contents -- 0 Introduction -- Part I: Definitions, Backgrounds, Contexts -- 1 Antebellum Period and Romanticism: Definitions and Demarcations -- 2 Antebellum Literary Culture: The Institutions of Romanticism -- 3 Transnational Dimensions of Romanticism -- 4 Ame...
| Published in: | Handbooks of English and American studies |
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin Boston
De Gruyter
[2021]
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Handbooks of English and American studies (volume 14)
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| Series/Journal: | Handbooks of English and American studies
volume 14 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Literature
/ Romance
/ History 1790-1860
B USA / Literature / Romance / USA / Literature / Romance / History 1790-1860 |
| Further subjects: | B
American Culture
B American Literature B LITERARY CRITICISM / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh / European B Romanticism B Literary Theory |
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| Summary: | Frontmatter -- The Editors’ Preface -- Contents -- 0 Introduction -- Part I: Definitions, Backgrounds, Contexts -- 1 Antebellum Period and Romanticism: Definitions and Demarcations -- 2 Antebellum Literary Culture: The Institutions of Romanticism -- 3 Transnational Dimensions of Romanticism -- 4 American Romanticism and Religion -- 5 Romanticism and European Philosophy, or “Idealism As It Appears in 1842” -- Part II: Intellectual, Spiritual, and Political Debates -- 6 Romanticism and Democracy -- 7 Romanticism and Social Reform -- 8 American Romanticism and Esotericism -- 9 America as Interior Space: Artificial Landscapes and the Modernization of Literature in Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Fiction -- Part III: Contestations of Authorship and Genre -- 10 Authorship as Profession and the Uses of Genre in Antebellum America -- 11 Poet-Prophets and Seers: American Romanticism, Authorship, and Literary Institutions -- 12 Life Writing and Romantic Expressivism -- 13 The Fireside and Sentimental Poets -- Part IV: Close Readings -- 14 Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature (1836): American Romantic “Manifesto” -- 15 Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845): Romanticism and (Proto)Feminism -- 16 The Continuous Creation of Walden -- 17 Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) -- 18 Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) and the Historical Imagination in American Romanticism -- 19 Romanticism and History: Göttingen and George Bancroft’s History of the United States (1834) -- 20 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) and the Politics of Sentimentalism -- 21 Myth and Mythmaking in the Douglass Circle -- 22 “The Soul Selects Her Own Society”: Emily Dickinson’s Poetry and the Creation of the Self -- 23 The Great Psalm of the Republic: Walt Whitman’s Democratic Poetics -- Part V: Reception Histories -- 24 Transcendentalist Legacies in American Philosophy -- 25 Rethinking Gender in Antebellum American Literature -- 26 “In the Woods We Return to Reason and Faith”: American Romanticism, Environmentalism, and Seeker Spirituality -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- List of Contributors The Handbook of American Romanticism presents a comprehensive survey of the various schools, authors, and works that constituted antebellum literature in the United States. The volume is designed to feature a selection of representative case studies and to assess them within two complementary frameworks: the most relevant historical, political, and institutional contexts of the antebellum decades and the consequent (re-)appropriations of the Romantic period by academic literary criticism in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries |
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| ISBN: | 3110592231 |
| Access: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9783110592238 |