Sketch, the Tale, and the Beginnings of American Literature
«An imaginative, eloquent, and important contribution to American literary and cultural history full of fresh textual analyses and rich historical accounts.»
Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "great American novels"-Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Melville's Moby-Dick and Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. But these great works did not spring fully formed from the heads of their creators. Les mer
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In the shorter works of writers such as Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lydia Maria Child, among others, the aesthetic of brevity enabled the beginning idea of a story to take the outsized importance fitted to the culture of beginnings. Fash argues that these short forms, with their ethnic exclusions and narrative innovations, coached readers on how to think about the United States' past and the nature of narrative time itself. Combining history, print history, and literary criticism, this book treats short fiction as a vital site for debate over what it meant to be American, thereby offering a new account of the birth of a self-consciously national literary tradition.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Virginia Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780813943985
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«An imaginative, eloquent, and important contribution to American literary and cultural history full of fresh textual analyses and rich historical accounts.»