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Author: Andrew Hebard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 110702806X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book examines trends in American literature and sheds new light on the legal history of race relations during the Progressive Era.
Author: Paul Downes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-07-28
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1107085292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHobbes, Sovereignty and Early American Literature explores the development of ideas about sovereignty and democracy in the early United States. It looks at Puritan sermons and poetry, founding-era political debates and representations of revolutionary and anti-slavery violence to reveal how Americans imagined the elusive possibility of a democratic sovereignty.
Author: Justin Parks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-09-30
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1009347837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book gives readers a fresh take on Depression-era poetry in relation to the idea of modernity experienced as crisis.
Author: Juliana Chow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-11-18
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1108997503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History illuminates how literary experimentation with natural history provides penumbral views of environmental survival. The book brings together feminist revisions of scientific objectivity and critical race theory on diaspora to show how biogeography influenced material and metaphorical concepts of species and race. It also highlights how lesser known writers of color like Simon Pokagon and James McCune Smith connected species migration and mutability to forms of racial uplift. The book situates these literary visions of environmental fragility and survival amidst the development of Darwinian theories of evolution and against a westward expanding American settler colonialism.
Author: Jessica E. Teague
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1108881394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhonographs, tapes, stereo LPs, digital remix - how did these remarkable technologies impact American writing? This book explores how twentieth-century writers shaped the ways we listen in our multimedia present. Uncovering a rich new archive of materials, this book offers a resonant reading of how writers across several genres, such as John Dos Passos, Langston Hughes, William S. Burroughs, and others, navigated the intermedial spaces between texts and recordings. Numerous scholars have taken up remix - a term co-opted from DJs and sound engineers - as the defining aesthetic of twenty-first century art and literature. Others have examined modernism's debt to the phonograph. But in the gap between these moments, one finds that the reciprocal relationship between the literary arts and sonic technologies continued to evolve over the twentieth century. A mix of American literary history, sound studies, and media archaeology, this interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars, students, and audiophiles.
Author: Bryan M. Santin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-03-11
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1108832652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShows how shifting views on race caused the American conservative movement to surrender highbrow fiction to to progressive liberals.
Author: Johannes Voelz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-12-28
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1108311296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Poetics of Insecurity turns the emerging field of literary security studies upside down. Rather than tying the prevalence of security to a culture of fear, Johannes Voelz shows how American literary writers of the past two hundred years have mobilized insecurity to open unforeseen and uncharted horizons of possibility for individuals and collectives. In a series of close readings of works by Charles Brockden Brown, Harriet Jacobs, Willa Cather, Flannery O'Connor, and Don DeLillo, Voelz brings to light a cultural imaginary in which conventional meanings of security and insecurity are frequently reversed, so that security begins to appear as deadening and insecurity as enlivening. Timely, broad-ranging, and incisive, Johannes Voelz's study intervenes in debates on American literature as well as in the interdisciplinary field of security studies. It fundamentally challenges our existing explanations for the pervasiveness of security in American cultural and political life.
Author: Cindy Weinstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-10-09
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1107099870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines canonical American authors who employ a range of tenses to tell a story that has already taken place.
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: Mark Noble
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1107084504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens, Mark Noble examines writers who rethink the human in material terms. Do our experiences correlate to our material elements? Do visions of a common physical ground imply a common purpose? Noble proposes new readings of Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, George Santayana and Wallace Stevens that explore a literary history wrestling with the consequences of its own materialism. At a moment when several new models of the relationship between human experience and its physical ground circulate among critical theorists and philosophers of science, this book turns to poets who have long asked what our shared materiality can tell us about our prospects for new models of our material selves.
