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Item Details
Title:
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AT EMERSON'S TOMB
THE POLITICS OF CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE |
By: |
John Carlos Rowe |
Format: |
Hardback |

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£95.00 |
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£76.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0231058942 |
ISBN 13: |
9780231058940 |
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Publisher: |
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
15 December, 1996 |
Pages: |
318 |
Description: |
Challenges the conventional critical reading of the American poetic project as an engagement with or reaction against Emersonian thought. Rowe demonstrates how ideals of individualism, intellectualism, and otherworldiness inevitably undermine any political effectiveness that a writer may seek to achieve. |
Synopsis: |
Representative works are interpreted in light of the two great political movements of the nineteenth century: the abolition of slavery and the women's rights movement. By reexamining Emerson, Poe, Melville, Douglass, Walt Whitman, Chopin, and Faulkner and others, Rowe assesses the degree to which major writers' attitudes toward race, class, and gender contribute to specific political reforms in nineteenth and twentieth-century American culture. |
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US |
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Columbia University Press |
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