عنوان

Formalism, experience, and the making of American literature in the nineteenth century /

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051148027X

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0511551002

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9780511480270

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9780511551000

Erroneous ISBN

0521872960

Erroneous ISBN

9780521872966

Number

b793433

Title Proper

Formalism, experience, and the making of American literature in the nineteenth century /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Theo Davis.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2007.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (vi, 203 pages)

Series Title

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction: new critical formalism and identity in Americanist criticism -- Types of interest: Scottish theory, literary nationalism, and John Neal -- Sensing Hawthorne: the figure of Hawthorne's affect -- "Life is an ecstasy": Ralph Waldo Emerson and A. Bronson Alcott -- Laws of experience: truth and feeling in Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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Text of Note

Theo Davis offers a fresh account of the emergence of a national literature in the United States. Taking American literature's universalism as an organising force that must be explained rather than simply exposed, she contends that Emerson, Hawthorne, and Stowe's often noted investigations of experience are actually based in a belief that experience is an abstract category governed by typicality, not the property of the individual subject. Additionally, these authors locate the form of the literary work in the domain of abstract experience, projected out of - not embodied in - the text. After tracing the emergence of these beliefs out of Scottish common sense philosophy and through early American literary criticism, Davis analyses how American authors' prose seeks to work an art of abstract experience. In so doing, she reconsiders the place of form in modern literary studies.

Title

Formalism, experience, and the making of American literature in the nineteenth century.

International Standard Book Number

9780521872966

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,1803-1882-- Criticism and interpretation.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel,1804-1864-- Criticism and interpretation.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,1811-1896-- Criticism and interpretation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,1803-1882

Hawthorne, Nathaniel,1804-1864

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,1811-1896

University of South Alabama

American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.

Experience in literature.

Literary form-- History-- 19th century.

Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

American literature.

Experience in literature.

Intellectual life.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.

Literary form.

Literatur

Literature and society.

United States, Intellectual life, 19th century.

United States.

USA.

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LIT-- 004020

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Edition

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Book number

Davis, Theo.

Date of Transaction

20201207063522.0

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