| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 625 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-604) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : The open text: American writers and their environment -- pt. 1 : God's bow, man's arrows: religion, reform, and American literature -- The new religious style -- The reform impulse and the paradox of immoral didacticism -- The transcendentalists, Whitman, and popular reform -- Hawthorne and the reform impulse -- Melville's whited sepulchres. |
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pt. 2 : Public poison: sensationalism and sexuality -- The sensational press and the rise of subversive literature -- The erotic imagination -- Poe and popular irrationalism -- Hawthorne's cultural demons -- Melville's ruthless democracy -- Whitman's transfigured sensationalism. |
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pt. 3 : Other Amazons: women's rights, women's wrongs, and the literary imagination -- Types of American womanhood -- Hawthorne's heroines -- The American women's renaissance and Emily Dickinson. |
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pt. 4 : The grotesque posture: popular humor and the American subversive style -- The carnivalization of American language -- Transcendental wild oats -- Whitman's poetic humor -- Stylized laughter in Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville. |
| Summary |
A study of prominent 19th century American writers shows how they assimilated themes and images from popular culture into their art, particulary sensationalistic literature that addressed controversial themes such as religion, slavery, sexual mores, and workers' and women's rights. |
| Subject |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Contemporaries.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Contemporaries.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. (OCoLC)fst00028085
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. (OCoLC)fst00030216
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Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld. (DE-588)10090522-5
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Social problems in literature.
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Sensationalism in literature.
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Social norms in literature.
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Women in literature.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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Contemporaries. (OCoLC)fst01352538
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Literature and society. (OCoLC)fst01000096
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Popular literature. (OCoLC)fst01071405
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Sensationalism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01896100
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Social norms in literature. (OCoLC)fst01122698
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Social problems in literature. (OCoLC)fst01122806
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Women in literature. (OCoLC)fst01177912
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Letterkunde.
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Literatur. (DE-588)4035964-5
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New England Renaissance. (DE-588)4339561-2
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Volkskultur. (DE-588)4063849-2
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United States.
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Literatura y sociedad -- United States -- Historia -- Siglo XIX.
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Coleção de literatura popular -- United States -- Historia y crítica.
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Problemas sociales en la literatura.
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Sensacionalismo en la literatura.
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Mujeres en la literatura.
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1830-1900
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1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
Subversive imagination in the age of Emerson and Melville.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Reynolds, David S., 1948- Beneath the American Renaissance. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1988 (OCoLC)646837473 |
| ISBN |
039454448X |
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9780394544489 |
