The Sketch The Tale And The Beginnings Of American Literature
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The Sketch The Tale And The Beginnings Of American Literature
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Author : Lydia G. Fash
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
The Sketch The Tale And The Beginnings Of American Literature written by Lydia G. Fash and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with American fiction categories.
"Combining history, print history, and literary criticism, this book shows how short fiction of the early nineteenth century, including sketches and tales, was vital to the birth of a national literary tradition, the great American novel, and even what it meant to be American"--
The Sketch The Tale And The Beginnings Of American Literature
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Author : Lydia G. Fash
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2020-03-31
The Sketch The Tale And The Beginnings Of American Literature written by Lydia G. Fash and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
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. All three relied on conventions of short fiction built up during the "culture of beginnings," the three decades following the War of 1812 when public figures glorified the American past and called for a patriotic national literature. Decentering the novel as the favored form of early nineteenth-century national literature, Lydia Fash repositions the sketch and the tale at the center of accounts of American literary history, revealing how cultural forces shaped short fiction that was subsequently mined for these celebrated midcentury novels and for the first novel published by an African American. 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.
Handbook Of The American Short Story
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Author : Erik Redling
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-01-19
Handbook Of The American Short Story written by Erik Redling and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
The American short story has always been characterized by exciting aesthetic innovations and an immense range of topics. This handbook offers students and researchers a comprehensive introduction to the multifaceted genre with a special focus on recent developments due to the rise of new media. Part I provides systematic overviews of significant contexts ranging from historical-political backgrounds, short story theories developed by writers, print and digital culture, to current theoretical approaches and canon formation. Part II consists of 35 paired readings of representative short stories by eminent authors, charting major steps in the evolution of the American short story from its beginnings as an art form in the early nineteenth century up to the digital age. The handbook examines historically, methodologically, and theoretically the coming together of the enduring narrative practice of compression and concision in American literature. It offers fresh and original readings relevant to studying the American short story and shows how the genre performs American culture.
The Sketch Book Of Geoffrey Crayon Gent
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Author : Washington Irving
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1822
The Sketch Book Of Geoffrey Crayon Gent written by Washington Irving and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1822 with American essays categories.
A Sketch Of The History Of American Literature
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Author : Országh László
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
A Sketch Of The History Of American Literature written by Országh László and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
The Cambridge Companion To The American Short Story
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Author : Michael J. Collins
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-04-30
The Cambridge Companion To The American Short Story written by Michael J. Collins 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 2023-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance in comparison with the novel, this Companion seeks to understand what the short story does – how it moves through national space, how it is always related to other genres and media, and how its inherent mobility responds to the literary marketplace and resonates with key critical themes in contemporary literary studies. The chapters offer authoritative introductions and reinterpretations of a literary form that has re-emerged as a major force in the twenty-first-century public sphere dominated by the Internet.
An Outline Sketch Of American Literature
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Author : Henry Augustin Beers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
An Outline Sketch Of American Literature written by Henry Augustin Beers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with American literature categories.
History Of American Literature
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Author : Reuben Post Halleck
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-09-16
History Of American Literature written by Reuben Post Halleck and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-16 with categories.
An Introduction To The Study Of American Literature
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Author : Brander Matthews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
An Introduction To The Study Of American Literature written by Brander Matthews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with American literature categories.
"This book is intended as an introduction to the study of American literature. Although the chapters on the separate authors are wholly distinct, they have been so planned that each of them prepares the way for its successor, and that all of them together outline the changing circumstances under which American literature has developed. An attempt has been made to show how each of the chief American authors influenced his time, and how he in turn was influenced by it; and also to indicate how each of them was related to the others, both personally and artistically. Bearing in mind the fact that the student needs to have his attention centered on vital points, all dates and all proper names, and all the titles of books not absolutely essential, have been rigorously omitted. Interest has thus been concentrated on the literary career of each of the greater writers and on their practice of the literary art, in the hope and expectation that the student will be encouraged and stimulated to read their works for his own pleasure. After the consideration of these more important authors, one by one, the writers of less consequence have been discussed briefly in a single chapter; and in like manner a single chapter only has been devoted to a summary consideration of the condition of our literature at the end of the nineteenth century. To arouse the student's interest in the authors as actual men, the illustrations chosen have been confined to portraits and views, and to facsimiles of manuscripts. To enable him to see for himself the successive stages of the growth of American literature, and to let him discover how the authors sometimes came one after another and sometimes worked side by side, there has been appended also a chronological table of the chief dates in our literary history. As mere text-book instruction can never be an adequate substitute for the student's own acquaintance with the actual works of the authors discussed, there have been annexed to every chapter bibliographical notes calling attention to the editions most suitable for the student's reading, and also to the best biographies and to a few of the most suggestive criticisms."--From the Prefatory Note.
The Cambridge History Of American Literature Volume 2 Prose Writing 1820 1865
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Author : Sacvan Bercovitch
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994
The Cambridge History Of American Literature Volume 2 Prose Writing 1820 1865 written by Sacvan Bercovitch 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 1994 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the fullest and richest account of the American Renaissance available in any literary history. The narratives in this volume made for a four-fold perspective on literature: social, cultural, intellectual and aesthetic. Michael D. Bell describes the social conditions of the literary vocation that shaped the growth of a professional literature in the United States. Eric Sundquist draws upon broad cultural patterns: his account of the writings of exploration, slavery, and the frontier is an interweaving of disparate voices, outlooks and traditions. Barbara L. Packer's sources come largely from intellectual history: the theological and philosophical controversies that prepared the way for transcendentalism. Jonathan Arac's categories are formalist: he sees the development of antebellum fiction as a dialectic of prose genres, the emergence of a literary mode out of the clash of national, local and personal forms. Together, these four narratives constitute a basic reassessment of American prose-writing between 1820 and 1865. It is an achievement that will remain authoritative for our time and that will set new directions for coming decades in American literary scholarship.