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Politics and Skepticism in Antebellum American Literature: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, cartea 169

Autor Dominic Mastroianni
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2016
In confronting their tumultuous time, antebellum American writers often invoked unrevealable secrets. Five of Ralph Waldo Emerson's most inventive interlocutors - Melville, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Douglass and Jacobs - produced their most riveting political thought in response to Emerson's idea that moods fundamentally shape one's experience of the world, changing only through secret causes that no one fully grasps. In this volume, Dominic Mastroianni frames antebellum and Civil War literature within the history of modern philosophical skepticism, ranging from Descartes and Hume to Levinas and Cavell, arguing that its political significance lies only partially in its most overt engagement with political issues like slavery, revolution, reform, and war. It is when antebellum writing is most philosophical, figurative, and seemingly unworldly that its political engagement is most profound. Mastroianni offers new readings of six major American authors and explores the teeming archive of nineteenth-century print culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107431669
ISBN-10: 1107431662
Pagini: 228
Ilustrații: 1 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1. Moods and the secret cause of revolution in Emerson; 2. Revolutionary time and democracy's cause in Melville's Pierre; 3. Hawthorne and the temperatures of secrecy; 4. Causes of falling, civil war, and the poetics of survival in Dickinson's 'Fascicle 24'.

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This volume explores the way in which antebellum American writers perceived the political implications of modern philosophical skepticism.