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New England literary culture from revolution through renaissance / Lawrence Buell

Author
Buell, Lawrence
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1986.
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1 online resource (xii, 513 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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1. Theoretical premises -- 2. A narrative overview of New England's literary development -- 3. Marketplace, ethos, practice : the Antebellum literary situation -- 4. Neoclassical continuities : the early National era and the New England literary tradition -- 5. New England poetics : Emerson, Dickinson, and others -- 6. New England oratory from Everett to Emerson -- 7. Literary scripturism -- 8. The concept of Puritan ancestry -- 9. The politics of historiography -- 10. Fictionalizing Puritan history : some problems and approaches -- 11. Hawthorne and Stowe as rival interpreters of New England Puritanism -- 12. The cultural landscape in regional poetry and prose -- 13. The village as icon -- 14. Lococentrism from Dwight to Thoreau -- 15. Cosmic grotesque -- 16. Provincial Gothic : Hawthorne, Stoddard, and others -- Appendix. Vital statistics : a quantitative analysis of authorship as a profession in New England.
Summary
This book is a study of the development of New England literature and literary institutions from the American Revolutionary era to the late nineteenth century. Professor Buell explores the foundations, growth and literary results of the professionalization of the writing vocation. He pays particular attention to the major writers - Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Stowe and Dickinson - but surveys them with a number of lesser-known authors, and explores the conventions, values and institutions which affected them all. Some of the main topics covered include the distinctive features of the Early National and Antebellum periods in New England writing; the importance of certain literary genres (poetry, oratory and religious narrative; etc.); the impact of Puritanism and its values; and the invention of acceptable conventions for portraying the New England landscape and institutions in literature.
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9780511570384 (ebook)
9780521302067 (hardback)
9780521378017 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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