Liberalism And American Literature In The Clinton Era
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Liberalism And American Literature In The Clinton Era
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Author : Ryan M. Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-06-30
Liberalism And American Literature In The Clinton Era written by Ryan M. Brooks and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as American writers grapple with the triumph of free-market politics.
Writing The Republic
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Author : Anthony Hutchison
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2007-08-21
Writing The Republic written by Anthony Hutchison and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this provocative book, Anthony Hutchison challenges the belief that the American novel is "antipolitical" and condemns the relative absence of American literature in studies of the political novel. In Hutchison's view, our fiction is always informed by the complexities of the American political tradition, and to acknowledge this is to introduce a new, rewarding chapter of critical inquiry into the study of American literature. Focusing on the works of Herman Melville, Gore Vidal, Russell Banks, Lionel Trilling, and Philip Roth, Hutchison finds a critique of liberalism put forth by classical republicanism, transcendentalism, Marxism, and neoconservatism at their respective moments of historical ascent. He shows how these authors take very specific historical periods and episodes for their subject matter and interrogate, critique, and contextualize pivotal moments in the intellectual history of American liberalism. In their work, liberalism reconstitutes itself in the face of competing ideological pressures, demonstrating that the novel is very much characterized by a "republican" concern with the health of the polity. Considering such artists, philosophers, and theorists as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hannah Arendt, and John Dewey, alongside numerous contemporary commentators and historians, Hutchison repositions American novelists as serious political thinkers. He reveals Melville's Moby Dick to be the formal template for the American political novel and compares and contrasts its embodiment of "republican" fiction with the "democratic" mode Mikhail Bakhtin associates with Dostoevsky. He especially draws attention to the meaning of republicanism in the early national period, the place of abolitionism in the Civil War, and the post-1930s liberal retreat from Left radicalism. By concentrating on the tension between issues of liberalism and morality in the political thought of these American novelists, Hutchison hopes to advance a more nuanced and textured understanding of the U.S. political tradition. He scrutinizes a number of critical studies and makes a cogent case for a more interdisciplinary approach to the American political novel that focuses less on the politics of representation and more on the representation of politics.
Liberalism Theology And The Performative In Antebellum American Literature
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Author : Patrick McDonald
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-09-19
Liberalism Theology And The Performative In Antebellum American Literature written by Patrick McDonald and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
The 1850s United States witnessed a far-reaching political, social, and economic crisis. Symptomatic of this, a wide range of narrative fiction from sentimental novels to sensational drama identifies a foundational link between liberal institutions and performative utterances. Auctions, trials, marriages, and contracts, this fiction contends, all depend on the self-constituting authority of words and performances which anybody and everybody can appropriate and are always subject to misfiring. Rather than viewing this as a liberatory and egalitarian political force, however, writers from Herman Melville and James Fenimore Cooper to Captain Mayne Reid and E.D.E.N. Southworth insist that such naked authority must be supplemented. A broad swath of 1850s literature insists that this supplement ought to come from Christianity. Anticipating thinkers like Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben, these works suggest that legitimate political authority depends upon its ability to represent Christian transcendence and account for revealed truth, something firmly outside of speech acts’ and performance’s purview. In so doing, this diverse body of fiction registers a desire to reconstitute political authority on transcendent and representable ground, augmenting institutional reliance on mere words and assuaging the contemporary crises of confidence and authority.
The Cambridge Companion To The Twentieth Century American Novel And Politics
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Author : Bryan Santin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-31
The Cambridge Companion To The Twentieth Century American Novel And Politics written by Bryan Santin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume analyzes how political movements, ideas, and events shaped the American novel.
Class Whiteness And Southern Literature
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Author : Jolene Hubbs
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-12-31
Class Whiteness And Southern Literature written by Jolene Hubbs and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shows how representations of poor white southerners helped shape middle-class identity and major American literary movements and genres.
Poetry And The Limits Of Modernity In Depression America
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Author : Justin Parks
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-09-30
Poetry And The Limits Of Modernity In Depression America written by Justin Parks and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book gives readers a fresh take on Depression-era poetry in relation to the idea of modernity experienced as crisis.
The Pound Reaction
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Author : Andrew S. Gross
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Pound Reaction written by Andrew S. Gross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with American literature categories.
Black Women And Energies Of Resistance In Nineteenth Century Haitian And American Literature
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Author : Mary Grace Albanese
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-11-23
Black Women And Energies Of Resistance In Nineteenth Century Haitian And American Literature written by Mary Grace Albanese and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Black 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.
Disability The Body And Radical Intellectuals In The Literature Of The Civil War And Reconstruction
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Author : Sarah E. Chinn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-30
Disability The Body And Radical Intellectuals In The Literature Of The Civil War And Reconstruction written by Sarah E. Chinn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The 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.
Vagabonds Tramps And Hobos
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Author : Owen Clayton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-07-31
Vagabonds Tramps And Hobos written by Owen Clayton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
The most enduring version of the hobo that has come down from the so-called 'Golden Age of Tramping' (1890s to 1940s) is an American cultural icon, signifying freedom from restraint and rebellion to the established order while reinforcing conservative messages about American exceptionalism, individualism, race, and gender. Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos shows that this 'pioneer hobo' image is a misrepresentation by looking at works created by transient artists and thinkers, including travel literature, fiction, memoir, early feminist writing, poetry, sociology, political journalism, satire, and music. This book explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around 'the hobo' and 'the tramp'. It is the first analysis to frame transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts to travel without money. This book provide new ways for scholars to think about the activity and representation of US transiency.