Doctrine and difference - readings in classic American literature

• Verfasst von: Colacurcio, Michael J. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Doctrine and difference - readings in classic American literature
• Verf.angabe: Michael J. Colacurcio
• Verlagsort: New York
• Verlag: London
• Jahr: 2021
• Umfang: xiv, 271 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Routledge studies in nineteenth century literature
• Fussnoten: Im Vorwort als volume 2 bezeichnet ; Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-367-70850-4
• ISBN: 978-1-00-314825-8
• ISBN: 978-0-367-70851-1
• Frühere Ausg.: Fortsetzung von: Colacurcio, Michael J., 1936 - : Doctrine and difference - essays in the literature of New England. - New York [u.a.] : Routledge, 1997
• Schlagwörter: (z)Geschichte 1800-1900 / (s)Literatur / (g)USA
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Colacurcio, Michael J: Doctrine and difference. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 |(DLC)2020056137
• K10plus-PPN: 1750497697

Abstract

Making conscience, trusting God : the (almost) weaned affections of Anne Bradstreet -- Cosmopolitan and provincial : Hawthorne and the reference of American studies -- "Supernal loveliness" and "fantastic foolery" : theaesthetic in Poe and Hawthorne -- Consciousness and ascription : Emerson and the scandal of the subject -- "Life within the life" : sin and self in Hawthorne's New England -- The south seas in Melville : genre, myth (and sex) in Typee, Omoo, Mardi -- "Artificial fire" : Melville and the mythology of "Ethan Brand" -- Inheritance, repetition, complicity, redemption : sin and salvation in The house of the seven Gables -- Charity and its discontents : pity and politics In Melville's short fiction -- "The friendship of the seasons" : climax and confirmation in the plot of Walden -- "Our conversation with nature" : Emerson's cave and Plato's "allegory" -- "Mean or unamiable people" : manners, morals (and grace?) In The rise of Silas Lapham and the American.

Abstract

"Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature is the second and culminating volume to a project that began in 1997, with an aim to study the authors of what was previously called "The American Renaissance". While Volume I spanned from the 17th century to 1850, Volume II begins with Emerson, Hawthorne and Poe in the 1840s, moves on to look at Hawthorne and Melville in the 1850s, and ends with Emerson in 1860, alongside cutting-edge critical context. Reading Nineteenth-Century Authors leaves the Puritans of the previous volume behind to focus on later writings from a wider set of American Renaissance authors and the relations among them: Melville on Hawthorne, Hawthorne on Emerson, Hawthorne on Poe. It re-confirms how deeply interwoven these authors' works became, and how far reading them together in the light of their shared inheritance makes the study of them more important than ever in the ongoing interpretation of American literature"--