Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites: Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of the Critic, Adam Gordon

Автор: Adam Gordon
Название: Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites: Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of the Critic
ISBN: 1625344538 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781625344533
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Print culture expanded significantly in the nineteenth century due to new print technologies and more efficient distribution methods, providing literary critics with an increasing number of venues to publish their work. Adam Gordon embraces the multiplicity of critique in the period from 1830 to 1860 by exploring the critical forms that emerged.

Автор: Juliane Braun
Название: Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans
ISBN: 0813942314 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813942315
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Описание: Moving from France to the Caribbean to the American continent, Creole Drama follows the people that created and sustained French theatre culture in New Orleans from its inception in 1792 until the beginning of the Civil War.

Автор: Juliane Braun
Название: Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans
ISBN: 0813942330 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813942339
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Описание: Moving from France to the Caribbean to the American continent, Creole Drama follows the people that created and sustained French theatre culture in New Orleans from its inception in 1792 until the beginning of the Civil War.

Автор: Cooke, Simon Goldman, Paul
Название: George du maurier: illustrator, author, critic
ISBN: 0367175797 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367175795
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Though well-known as the author of Trilby and the creator of Svengali, the writer-artist George Du Maurier had many other accomplishments that are less familiar to modern audiences. This collection traces Du Maurier’s role as a participant in the wider cultural life of his time, restoring him to his proper status as a major Victorian figure. Divided into sections, the volume considers Du Maurier as an artist, illustrator and novelist who helped to form some of the key ideas of his time. The contributors place his life and work in the context of his treatment of Judaism and Jewishness; his fascination with urbanization, Victorian science, technology and clairvoyance; his friendships and influences; and his impact on notions of consumerism and taste. As an illustrator, Du Maurier collaborated with Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell and sensational writers such as M. E. Braddon and the author of The Notting Hill Mystery. These partnerships, along with his reflections on the art of illustration, are considered in detail. Impossible to categorize, Du Maurier was an Anglo-Frenchman with cultural linkages in France, England, and America; a social commentator with an interest in The New Woman; a Punch humourist; and a friend of Henry James, with whom he shared a particular interest in the writing of domesticity and domestic settings. Closing with a consideration of Du Maurier’s after-life, notably the treatment of his work in film, this collection highlights his diverse achievements and makes a case for his enduring significance.

Название: Parasites, worms, and the human body in religion and culture
ISBN: 1433115476 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433115479
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: The fear of parasites, with their power to invade, infest, and transform the self, writhes and wriggles through cultures and religions across globe, reflecting a human revulsion of being invaded and consumed by internal and external forces. This book gathers together research from diverse disciplines, including anthropology, and religious studies.

Автор: Dill Elizabeth
Название: Erotic Citizens: Sex and the Embodied Subject in the Antebellum Novel
ISBN: 0813943396 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813943398
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Описание: What is the role of sex in the age of democratic beginnings? Despite the sober republican ideals of the Enlightenment, the literature of America’s early years speaks of unruly, carnal longings. Elizabeth Dill argues that the era’s proliferation of texts about extramarital erotic intimacy manifests not an anxiety about the dangers of unfettered feeling, but an endorsement of it. Uncovering the more prurient aspects of nation-building, Erotic Citizens establishes the narrative of sexual ruin as a genre whose sustained rejection of marriage acted as a critique of that which traditionally defines a democracy: the social contract and the sovereign individual.Through an examination of philosophical tracts, political cartoons, frontispiece Illustrations, portraiture, and the novel from the antebellum period, this study reconsiders how the terms of embodiment and selfhood function to define national belonging. From an enslaved woman’s story of survival in North Carolina to a philosophical treatise penned by an English earl, the readings employ the trope of sexual ruin to tell their tales. Such narratives advanced the political possibilities of the sympathetic body, looking beyond the marriage contract as the model for democratic citizenship. Against the cult of the individual that once seemed to define the era, Erotic Citizens argues that the most radical aspect of the Revolution was not the invention of a self-governing body, but the recognition of a self whose body is ungovernable.

Автор: Kevin Pelletier
Название: Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum Literature
ISBN: 0820354678 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820354675
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Описание: In contrast to the prevailing scholarly consensus that understands sentimentality to be grounded on a logic of love and sympathy, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism demonstrates that in order for sentimentality to work as an antislavery engine, it needed to be linked to its seeming opposite - fear, especially the fear of God`s wrath.

Автор: Elizabeth Dill
Название: Erotic Citizens: Sex and the Embodied Subject in the Antebellum Novel
ISBN: 081394337X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813943374
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Описание: What is the role of sex in the age of democratic beginnings? Despite the sober republican ideals of the Enlightenment, the literature of America’s early years speaks of unruly, carnal longings. Elizabeth Dill argues that the era’s proliferation of texts about extramarital erotic intimacy manifests not an anxiety about the dangers of unfettered feeling, but an endorsement of it. Uncovering the more prurient aspects of nation-building, Erotic Citizens establishes the narrative of sexual ruin as a genre whose sustained rejection of marriage acted as a critique of that which traditionally defines a democracy: the social contract and the sovereign individual.Through an examination of philosophical tracts, political cartoons, frontispiece Illustrations, portraiture, and the novel from the antebellum period, this study reconsiders how the terms of embodiment and selfhood function to define national belonging. From an enslaved woman’s story of survival in North Carolina to a philosophical treatise penned by an English earl, the readings employ the trope of sexual ruin to tell their tales. Such narratives advanced the political possibilities of the sympathetic body, looking beyond the marriage contract as the model for democratic citizenship. Against the cult of the individual that once seemed to define the era, Erotic Citizens argues that the most radical aspect of the Revolution was not the invention of a self-governing body, but the recognition of a self whose body is ungovernable.

Автор: Jason Richards
Название: Imitation Nation: Red, White, and Blackface in Early and Antebellum US Literature
ISBN: 0813940648 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813940649
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Описание: How did early Americans define themselves? The American exceptionalist perspective tells us that the young republic rejected Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans in order to isolate a national culture and a white national identity. Imitativeness was often seen as antithetical to self and national creation, but Jason Richards argues that imitation was in fact central to such creation.

Автор: Regis M. Fox
Название: Resistance Reimagined: Black Women`s Critical Thought as Survival
ISBN: 0813056586 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813056586
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Описание: Looking closely at nineteenth-century texts and twentieth-century novels written by African American women about antebellum America, Resistance Reimagined highlights examples of black women’s activism within a society that spoke so much of freedom but granted it so selectively. This book introduces readers to types of resistance that differ from the militancy and violence often associated with activism, and it confronts expectations about what African American literature can and should be.Regis Fox analyzes the work of authors including Anna Julia Cooper, Elizabeth Keckly, Harriet Wilson, and Sherley Anne Williams. Connected by their intellectualism, these thinkers are astutely attuned to the areas of American society that notions of liberalism and progress do not reach. The world they portray in their work is built on philosophical contradictions, legal paradoxes, and incoherent social practices that support white supremacy. Fox shows how these women use their writing to protest antiblack violence, reject superficial reform, call for major sociopolitical change, and challenge the false promises of American democracy.

Автор: Ruskin
Название: Ruskin as Literary Critic
ISBN: 1107661951 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107661950
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: First published in 1928, this book gathers together a selection of John Ruskin`s relatively neglected writings on literature and aesthetics. As noted in the textual preface, `Interesting themes, original treatment, suggestive ideas which warm and stimulate the mind, are set out in a more easily readable form than is usual in Ruskin`s works.`

Автор: Earl E. Fitz
Название: Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory: Language, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels
ISBN: 1684481139 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684481132
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Описание: This book makes the argument that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literature's greatest writers, was also a major theoretician of the modern novel form. Steeped in the works of Western literature and an imaginative reader of French Symbolist poetry, Machado creates, between 1880 and 1908, a "new narrative," one that will presage the groundbreaking theories of Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure by showing how even the language of narrative cannot escape being elusive and ambiguous in terms of meaning. It is from this discovery about the nature of language as a self-referential semiotic system that Machado crafts his "new narrative." Long celebrated in Brazil as a dazzlingly original writer, Machado has struggled to gain respect and attention outside the Luso-Brazilian ken. He is the epitome of the "outsider" or "marginal," the iconoclastic and wildly innovative genius who hails from a culture rarely studied in the Western literary hierarchy and so consigned to the status of "eccentric." Had the Brazilian master written not in Portuguese but English, French, or German, he would today be regarded as one of the true exemplars of the modern novel, in expression as well as in theory. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.