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Author: Kate Stanley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-07-19
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1108426875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book establishes surprise as a key Emersonian affect, and demonstrates its significance for transatlantic modernism and the philosophy of pragmatism.
Author: Kate Stanley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-07-19
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1108554199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPractices of Surprise in American Literature After Emerson locates a paradoxical question - how does one prepare to be surprised? - at the heart of several major modernist texts. Arguing that this paradox of perception gives rise to an American literary methodology, this book dramatically reframes how practices of reading and writing evolved among modernist authors after Emerson. Whereas Walter Benjamin defines modernity as a 'series of shocks' inflicted from without, Emerson offers a countervailing optic that regards life as a 'series of surprises' unfolding from within. While Benjaminian shock elicits intimidation and defensiveness, Emersonian surprise fosters states of responsiveness and spontaneity whereby unexpected encounters become generative rather than enervating. As a study of how such states of responsiveness were cultivated by a post-Emerson tradition of writers and thinkers, this project displaces longstanding models of modernist perception defined by shock's passive duress, and proposes alternate models of reception that proceed from the active practice of surprise.
Author: Jessica Teague
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1108840132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2013.
Author: Heike Schaefer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-16
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1108487386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemonstrates that the quest for immediacy, or experiences of direct connection and presence, has propelled the development of American literature and media culture.
Author: Ryan M. Brooks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-06-30
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1316519813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as American writers grapple with the triumph of free-market politics.
Author: Juliana Chow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-11-18
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1108845711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of dispersal. It will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-Century American literature and Literature and the Environment.
Author: Marianne Noble
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-03-28
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1108481337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s. It will appeal to undergraduates and scholars seeking new approaches to canonical American authors, psychological theorists of sympathy and empathy, and philosophers of moral philosophy.
Author: Sarah E. Chinn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-06-30
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1009442694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book is a study of the ways that white radicals deployed the physical and literary image of amputation during the Civil War and Reconstruction to argue for full Black citizenship and against a national reconciliation that reimposed white supremacy. It gives readers a new way to think about the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Author: Jolene Hubbs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-12-31
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1009250655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShows how representations of poor white southerners helped shape middle-class identity and major American literary movements and genres.
Author: Mary Grace Albanese
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-11-23
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 1009314254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlack Women and Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature intervenes in traditional narratives of 19th-century American modernity by situating Black women at the center of an increasingly connected world. While traditional accounts of modernity have emphasized advancements in communication technologies, animal and fossil fuel extraction, and the rise of urban centers, Mary Grace Albanese proposes that women of African descent combated these often violent regimes through diasporic spiritual beliefs and practices, including spiritual possession, rootwork, midwifery, mesmerism, prophecy, and wandering. It shows how these energetic acts of resistance were carried out on scales large and small: from the constrained corners of the garden plot to the expansive circuits of global migration. By examining the concept of energy from narratives of technological progress, capital accrual and global expansion, this book uncovers new stories that center Black women at the heart of a pulsating, revolutionary world.
