Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)
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Theo Davis offers a fresh account of the emergence of a national literature in the United States. Taking American literature's universalism as an organising force that must be explained rather than simply exposed, she contends that Emerson, Hawthorne, and Stowe's often noted investigations of experience are actually based in a belief that experience is an abstract category governed by typicality, not the property of the individual subject. Additionally,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521872960
ISBN13:9780521872966
Release Date:December 2007
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:210 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"
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