Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville
by David S. Reynolds
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The aware-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson receive striking, original readings set against the rich backdrop of contemporary popular writing.Tags
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One of my favorite books of literary criticism. A great introduction to the concept and reality of literary genesis.
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David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books include Wait Whitman's America, Waking Giant America in the Age of Jackson, John Brown, Abolitionist, and Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America.
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- People/Characters
- Emily Dickinson; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Herman Melville; Edgar Allan Poe; Walt Whitman
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- USA
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Nonfiction, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 810.9 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American literature in English History and criticism of American literature
- LCC
- PS208 .R49 — Language and Literature American literature American literature By period 19th century
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