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The Rural Harlem Renaissance

by Chiyuma (Professor Of English, Professor Of English, Case Western Reserve University) Elliott

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 The Rural Harlem Renaissance shows how African American rural culture shaped the work and reception of well-known Harlem Renaissance artists during the decade when America became a predominantly urban nation.
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Complicity In American Literature After 1945 - Liberalism, Race, And Colonialism

by Will Norman

~~71,54€~~ 64,39€ 10% OFF

 Complicity in American Literature after 1945 offers a literary and intellectual history of the idea of complicity in the United States, proposing a new frame for understanding American literature in the period. The term a complicitya derives etymologically from the Latin complicAGBPre, which means a to fold.a If one is complicit, one is folded into a larger system of social harm over which one has little or no direct control. In the period from 1945 to the early 1970s, complicity with structural racism became a central concern for American writing and thought, as it grappled with the Holocaust, colonialism, the Vietnam War, and racial domination at home in the United States. Writers and thinkers grasped complicity both as a social phenomenon to be represented and as a problem threatening to enfold writing itself. In addressing complicity, intellectuals were obliged to reconsider their social role and to innovate means of literary expression capable of articulating new experiences of guilt and responsibility. Complicity in American Literature after 1945 tells the story of that process as it took place across several genres, from highbrow short stories to crime fiction, and from experimental metafiction to the reportage essays of the New Journalism. It argues that the history of racial complicity is inseparable from the history of liberalism, and shows how we can make sense of our present preoccupations with complicity by studying its origins in the past.
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Complicity In American Literature After 1945 - Liberalism, Race, And Colonialism

by Will Norman

~~71,54€~~ 64,39€ 10% OFF

 Complicity in American Literature after 1945 offers a literary and intellectual history of the idea of complicity in the United States, proposing a new frame for understanding American literature in the period. The term "complicity" derives etymologically from the Latin complicare, which means "to fold." If one is complicit, one is folded into a larger system of social harm over which one has little or no direct control. In the period from 1945 to the early 1970s, complicity with structural racism became a central concern for American writing and thought, as it grappled with the Holocaust, colonialism, the Vietnam War, and racial domination at home in the United States. Writers and thinkers grasped complicity both as a social phenomenon to be represented and as a problem threatening to enfold writing itself. In addressing complicity, intellectuals were obliged to reconsider their social role and to innovate means of literary expression capable of articulating new experiences of guilt and responsibility. Complicity in American Literature after 1945 tells the story of that process as it took place across several genres, from highbrow short stories to crime fiction, and from experimental metafiction to the reportage essays of the New Journalism. It argues that the history of racial complicity is inseparable from the history of liberalism, and shows how we can make sense of our present preoccupations with complicity by studying its origins in the past.
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Earthquake And The Invention Of America - The Making Of Elsewhere Catastrophe

by Anna Brickhouse

~~113,94€~~ 102,55€ 10% OFF

 Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere Catastrophe explores the role of earthquakes in shaping the deep timeframes and multi-hemispheric geographies of American literary history. Spanning the ancient world to the futuristic continents of speculative fiction, the earthquake stories assembled here together reveal the emergence of a broadly Western cultural syndrome that became an acute national fantasy: elsewhere catastrophe, an unspoken but widely prevalent sense that catastrophe is somehow "un-American." Catastrophe must be elsewhere because it affirms the rightness of "here" where conquest, according to the syndrome's logic, did not happen and is not occurring. The psychic investment in elsewhere catastrophe coalesced slowly, across centuries; varieties of it can be found in various European traditions of the modern. Yet in its most striking modes and resonances, elsewhere catastrophe proves fundamental to the invention of US-America--which is why earthquake, as the exemplary elsewhere catastrophe, is the disaster that must always happen far away or be forgotten. The book's eight chapters and epilogue range from Plato to the Puritans, from El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Voltaire to Herman Melville and N.K. Jemisin, examining along the way the seismic imaginings of Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, and Jose MartA-, among other writers. At the core of the book's inquiries are the earthquakes, historical and imagined, that act as both a recurrent eruptive force and a provocation for disparate modes of critical engagement with the long and catastrophic history of the Americas.
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Earthquake And The Invention Of America - The Making Of Elsewhere Catastrophe

by Anna Brickhouse

~~113,94€~~ 102,55€ 10% OFF

 Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere Catastrophe explores the role of earthquakes in shaping the deep timeframes and multi-hemispheric geographies of American literary history. Spanning the ancient world to the futuristic continents of speculative fiction, the earthquake stories assembled here together reveal the emergence of a broadly Western cultural syndrome that became an acute national fantasy: elsewhere catastrophe, an unspoken but widely prevalent sense that catastrophe is somehow "un-American." Catastrophe must be elsewhere because it affirms the rightness of "here" where conquest, according to the syndrome's logic, did not happen and is not occurring. The psychic investment in elsewhere catastrophe coalesced slowly, across centuries; varieties of it can be found in various European traditions of the modern. Yet in its most striking modes and resonances, elsewhere catastrophe proves fundamental to the invention of US-America--which is why earthquake, as the exemplary elsewhere catastrophe, is the disaster that must always happen far away or be forgotten. The book's eight chapters and epilogue range from Plato to the Puritans, from El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Voltaire to Herman Melville and N.K. Jemisin, examining along the way the seismic imaginings of Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, and Jose Marti, among other writers. At the core of the book's inquiries are the earthquakes, historical and imagined, that act as both a recurrent eruptive force and a provocation for disparate modes of critical engagement with the long and catastrophic history of the Americas.
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War Power - Literature And The State In The Civil War North

by Philip Gould

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 What happens if we reconsider the literature of the Civil War North in light of the transformation of the federal state's power? While literary scholarship about the Civil War has more generally focused on the rise of wartime nationalism, Philip Gould looks particularly at how literary works engage the subjects of censorship, propaganda, and the reconfigured meanings of "loyalty" and "treason" at a time of political crisis. During the war the Lincoln Administration shut down opposition newspapers and curtailed free expression and civil liberties protected by the US Constitution. Lincoln also suspended the writ of habeas corpus to deal with political dissenters and try to control public opinion. Early in the war, he coined the phrase "war power" to describe the (presumed) powers to address this crisis; his policies became controversial throughout the conflict. War Power: Literature and the State in the Civil War North considers literary production in this "total war" that radically changed the federal government's (and its military's) relation to traditional norms and spaces of private, domestic, and social life. Each chapter focuses on a major writer in the Civil War North's engagement with questions of identity, affect, and affiliation: Could one love the Union as one loved home and family? What were the implications for literary expression in the midst of a political culture being reshaped by censorship and propaganda? The final two chapters address the role and plight of African Americans in the Civil War and its aftermath, focusing particularly on African American military service as the supposed means by which racially disenfranchised Americans might become citizens.
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War Power - Literature And The State In The Civil War North

by Philip Gould

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 What happens if we reconsider the literature of the Civil War North in light of the transformation of the federal state's power? While literary scholarship about the Civil War has more generally focused on the rise of wartime nationalism, Philip Gould looks particularly at how literary works engage the subjects of censorship, propaganda, and the reconfigured meanings of "loyalty" and "treason" at a time of political crisis. During the war the Lincoln Administration shut down opposition newspapers and curtailed free expression and civil liberties protected by the US Constitution. Lincoln also suspended the writ of habeas corpus to deal with political dissenters and try to control public opinion. Early in the war, he coined the phrase "war power" to describe the (presumed) powers to address this crisis; his policies became controversial throughout the conflict. War Power: Literature and the State in the Civil War North considers literary production in this "total war" that radically changed the federal government's (and its military's) relation to traditional norms and spaces of private, domestic, and social life. Each chapter focuses on a major writer in the Civil War North's engagement with questions of identity, affect, and affiliation: Could one love the Union as one loved home and family? What were the implications for literary expression in the midst of a political culture being reshaped by censorship and propaganda? The final two chapters address the role and plight of African Americans in the Civil War and its aftermath, focusing particularly on African American military service as the supposed means by which racially disenfranchised Americans might become citizens.
Phobia And American Literature, 1705â€“1937 - A Therapeutic History

by Don James (Assistant Professor Of English, Assistant Professor Of English, University Of Tulsa) Mclaughlin

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 Phobia and American Literature, 1705-1937: A Therapeutic History tells a neglected, two-century history of phobia's gradual emergence as a variable suffix in medicine, politics, and literature, ready to be appended to an array of objects, situations, and ideas.
Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, And Settler Colonialism In American Writing From Franklin To Melville

by Edward (Professor Emeritus, English, Professor Emeritus, English, Michigan State University) Watts

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 Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the â€œIndian Haterâ€ in American writing from the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War.
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Complicity In American Literature After 1945 - Liberalism, Race, And Colonialism

by Will (Reader In American Literature And Culture, Reader In American Literature And Culture, University Of Kent, Canterbury) Norman

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 Complicity in American Literature after 1945 offers a literary and intellectual history of the idea of complicity in the United States, proposing a new frame for understanding American literature in the period.
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Political Liberalism And The Rise Of American Romanticism

by Scott M. Reznick

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 Political Liberalism and the Rise of American Romanticism explores how American Romanticism developed in response to pervasive conflicts over democracy''s moral dimensions in the early republic and antebellum eras. By recovering the long-under-examined tradition of political liberalism for literary studies, it traces how US writers reacted to ongoing moral and political conflict by engaging with liberal thinkers and ideas as they endeavored to understand how individuals beholden to a divergent array of moral convictions might nevertheless share a stable and just political world--the very dilemma at the core of political liberalism. This study demonstrates how those philosophical engagements sparked Romanticism''s rise and eventual flourishing as US writers increasingly embraced Romantic literary modes emphasizing the imagination''s capacity for creative synthesis and the role it plays in shoring up the habits of mind and feeling that are vital to a meaningful democratic culture. It offers revisionary readings of works by Charles Brockden Brown, Robert Montgomery Bird, James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and Nathaniel Hawthorne to show how these Romantic writers were preoccupied with how individuals come to embrace their deepest convictions and what happens when they encounter others who see the world differently.
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War Power - Literature And The State In The Civil War North

by Philip (Israel J. Kapstein Professor Of English, Israel J. Kapstein Professor Of English, Brown University) Gould

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 Philip Gould examines nineteenth-century literature in light of the transformation of the federal state's power during the American Civil War. How do literary works engage the subjects of censorship, propaganda, and the reconfigured meanings of "loyalty" and "treason" at a time of political crisis?
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Political Liberalism And The Rise Of American Romanticism

by Scott M. (Assistant Professor Of English, State University Of New York At Plattsburgh) Reznick

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 This volume traces how American literature evolved in response to widespread conflicts over the very nature of US democracy in the early republic and antebellum eras. It examines how American writers reacted to three moments of profound divisiveness in the 1790s, 1830s, and 1850s.
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Speculative Time - American Literature In An Age Of Crisis

by Paul Crosthwaite

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 Speculative Time examines how a climate of financial and economic speculation and disaster shaped the literary culture of the United States in the early to mid-twentieth century. It argues that speculation's risk-laden and crisis-prone temporalities had major impacts on writing in the period, and on important aspects of visual representation.
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National Review'S Literary Network - Conservative Circuits

by Stephen Schryer

~~72,86€~~ 65,57€ 10% OFF

 Stephen Schryer traces the careers of novelists, journalists, and literary critics who wrote for William F. Buckley, Jr.'s National Review and highlights these writers' enduring impact on movement conservatism.
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National Review'S Literary Network - Conservative Circuits

by Stephen Schryer

~~72,86€~~ 65,57€ 10% OFF

 Stephen Schryer traces the careers of novelists, journalists, and literary critics who wrote for William F. Buckley, Jr.'s National Review and highlights these writers' enduring impact on movement conservatism.
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National Review'S Literary Network - Conservative Circuits

by Stephen (Professor Of English, Professor Of English, University Of New Brunswick) Schryer

~~105,45€~~ 94,91€ 10% OFF

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 Stephen Schryer traces the careers of novelists, journalists, and literary critics who wrote for William F. Buckley, Jr.'s National Review and highlights these writers' enduring impact on movement conservatism.
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Haitian Revolution In The Early Republic Of Letters

by Duncan Faherty

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 In unraveling how American literary history has silenced the centrality of Haiti in U.S. cultural development, The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters: Incipient Fevers recuperates lost textual objects while redressing a crucial blind spot in American literary history.
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American House Poem, 1945-2021

by Walt Hunter

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 This book explores the politics of American housing from the perspective of poets. Hunter follows the emergence of an "American house poem," which offers uniquely vivid expressions of the expansion of homeownership as a core tenet of American prosperity and democracy.
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Haitian Revolution In The Early Republic Of Letters

by Duncan Faherty

67,56€ + 10% CARD

 In unraveling how American literary history has silenced the centrality of Haiti in U.S. cultural development, The Haitian Revolution in the Early Republic of Letters: Incipient Fevers recuperates lost textual objects while redressing a crucial blind spot in American literary history.
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American House Poem, 1945-2021

by Walt Hunter

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 This book explores the politics of American housing from the perspective of poets. Hunter follows the emergence of an "American house poem," which offers uniquely vivid expressions of the expansion of homeownership as a core tenet of American prosperity and democracy.
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American Tyrannies In The Long Age Of Napoleon

by Elizabeth Duquette

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 What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? This book traces some of ways that nineteenth-century Americans used the figure of Napoleon to understand the perameters of tyranny and the perversions it introduced into both their polity and society.
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American Tyrannies In The Long Age Of Napoleon

by Elizabeth Duquette

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 What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? This book traces some of ways that nineteenth-century Americans used the figure of Napoleon to understand the perameters of tyranny and the perversions it introduced into both their polity and society.
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Peace In The Us Republic Of Letters, 1840-1900

by Sandra M. Gustafson

67,56€ + 10% CARD

 A volume on the intersections between US literary culture and early peace movements. It studies literature of the Civil War and postbellum fiction as well as novels engaged with problems arising in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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