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  • Weak Planet

    Literature and Assisted Survival

    by Wai Chee Dimock ...
    "Exploring weakness and vulnerability from the origins of American literature to the present, she provocatively argues for 'collateral resilience.'" —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorVulnerability. We see it everywhere. In once permanent institutions. In runaway pandemics. In democracy itself. And most frighteningly, in ecosystems with no sustainable future. Against these large ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Empire for Liberty

    Melville and the Poetics of Individualism

    by Wai Chee Dimock ...
    Wai Chee Dimock approaches Herman Melville not as a timeless genius, but as a historical figure caught in the politics of an imperial nation and an "imperial self." She challenges our customary view by demonstrating a link between the individualism that enabled Melville to write as a sovereign author and the nationalism that allowed America to grow into what Jefferson hoped would be an "empire for ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon

    by Michael Warner, John McWilliams, Wai Chee Dimock ...
    Series series New Americanists
    Throughout the era of the Cold War a consensus reigned as to what constituted the great works of American literature. Yet as scholars have increasingly shown, and as this volume unmistakably demonstrates, that consensus was built upon the repression of the voices and historical contexts of subordinated social groups as well as literary works themselves, works both outside and within the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Edited by Joel Porte, Saundra Morris ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of Nature and The Conduct of Life. The tradition of American literature and philosophy as we know it at the end of the twentieth century was largely shaped by Emerson's example and practice. This volume offers students, scholars, and the general reader a collection of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Melville and the Idea of Blackness

    Race and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Christopher Freeburg ...
    Series Book 164 - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
    By examining the unique problems that 'blackness' signifies in Moby-Dick, Pierre, 'Benito Cereno' and 'The Encantadas', Christopher Freeburg analyzes how Herman Melville grapples with the social realities of racial difference in nineteenth-century America. Where Melville's critics typically read blackness as either a metaphor for the haunting power of slavery or an allegory of moral evil, Freeburg ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Writing Deafness

    The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    by Christopher Krentz ...
    Taking an original approach to American literature, Christopher Krentz examines nineteenth-century writing from a new angle: that of deafness, which he shows to have surprising importance in identity formation. The rise of deaf education during this period made deaf people much more visible in American society. Krentz demonstrates that deaf and hearing authors used writing to explore their ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Edited by Alan M. Levine, Daniel S. Malachuk ...
    Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
    From before the Civil War until his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was renowned—and renounced—as one of the United States' most prominent abolitionists and as a leading visionary of the nation's liberal democratic future. Following his death, however, both Emerson's political activism and his political thought faded from public memory, replaced by the myth of the genteel man of letters and the ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Impossible Witnesses

    Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony

    by Dwight McBride ...
    Even the most cursory review of black literary production during the nineteenth century indicates that its primary concerns were the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. How did the writers of these narratives "bear witness" to the experiences they describe? At a time when a hegemonic discourse on these subjects already existed, what did it mean to "tell the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature

    by Matthias Klestil ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten’s journals, Booker T. Washington’s ... Read more

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  • Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing

    The American Example

    by Leonard Tennenhouse, Nancy Armstrong ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    During the thirty years following ratification of the U.S. Constitution, the first American novelists carried on an argument with their British counterparts that pitted direct democracy against representative liberalism. Such writers as Hannah Foster, Isaac Mitchell, Royall Tyler, Leonore Sansay, and Charles Brockden Brown developed a set of formal tropes that countered, move for move, those ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Aesthetic Materialism

    Electricity and American Romanticism

    by Paul Gilmore ...
    Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism focuses on American romantic writers' attempts to theorize aesthetic experience through the language of electricity. In response to scientific and technological developments, most notably the telegraph, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century electrical imagery reflected the mysterious workings of the physical mind as well as the uncertain, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Transnationalism and American Literature

    Literary Translation 1773–1892

    by Colleen G. Boggs ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    What is transnationalism and how does it affect American literature?This book examines nineteenth century contexts of transnationalism, translation and American literature. The discussion of transnationalism largely revolves around the question of what role nationalism plays in the spaces and temporalities of the transatlantic. Boggs demonstrates that the assumption that American literature has ... Read more

    $45.99 USD