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Politics and Skepticism in Antebellum American Literature - 9781107076174
Un libro in lingua di Dominic Mastroianni edito da Cambridge Univ Pr, 2014
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"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 thehistory 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"--
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Politics and Skepticism in Antebellum American Literature
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Dominic Mastroianni
- Editore: Cambridge Univ Pr
- Collana: Cambridge Univ Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 27 Ottobre '14
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : American literature 19th century History and criticism Politics and literature United States History 19th century Skepticism in literature
- Pagine: 217
- ISBN-10: 110707617X
- EAN-13: 9781107076174