Politics and skepticism in antebellum American literature:

"In confronting their tumultuous time, antebellum American writers often invoked unrevealable secrets. Five of Ralph Waldo Emerson's most inventive interlocutors - Melville, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Douglass, and Jacobs - produced their most riveting political thought in response to Emerson&#...

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Main Author: Mastroianni, Dominic 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2014
Edition:1. publ.
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture 169
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Summary:"In confronting their tumultuous time, antebellum American writers often invoked unrevealable secrets. Five of Ralph Waldo Emerson's most inventive interlocutors - Melville, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Douglass, and Jacobs - produced their most riveting political thought in response to Emerson's idea that moods fundamentally shape one's experience of the world, changing only through secret causes that no one fully grasps. In this volume, Dominic Mastroianni frames antebellum and Civil War literature within the history of modern philosophical skepticism, ranging from Descartes and Hume to Levinas and Cavell, arguing that its political significance lies only partially in its most overt engagement with political issues like slavery, revolution, reform, and war. It is when antebellum writing is most philosophical, figurative, and seemingly unworldly that its political engagement is most profound. Mastroianni offers new readings of six major American authors and explores the teeming archive of nineteenth-century print culture"..
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references. Hier auch später erschienene Nachdrucke
Physical Description:IX, 217 S.
ISBN:9781107076174
9781107431669

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