Book
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
Reconstituting the American Renaissance
Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation
-
Jay Grossman
-
Edited by:
Donald E. Pease
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2003
About this book
Offers a revised view of the American Renaissance that shows (a) how the debates about political representatives as they developed around the framing and ratifications of the U.S. Constitution have structured the rhetoric of subsequent generations of writ
Author / Editor information
Jay Grossman is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University.
Reviews
“Jay Grossman powerfully demonstrates how the linguistic cohabits with the political in two of the nineteenth century’s most provocative writers. Reconstituting the American Renaissance thoroughly restructures our understanding of the Emerson/Whitman relationship. Some key, long-held assumptions about these two writers will now have to be completely reconsidered in light of Grossman’s original and compelling critiques of all the familiar encounters between these literary giants.”—Ed Folsom, editor, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review
"Reconstituting the American Renaissance will dramatically change the way scholars view the relationship of Whitman to Emerson and the character of their literary enterprises."—Jay Fliegelman, author of Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language and the Culture of Performance
Topics
-
Download PDFPublicly Available
Frontmatter
i -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Contents
vii -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Acknowledgments
ix -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Abbreviations
xi -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Introduction. Representative Strategies
1 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter One. The Rise of the Representational Arts in the United States
28 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter Two. Rereading Emerson/Whitman
75 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter Three. Class Actions
116 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Chapter Four. Representing Men
161 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Notes
207 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Works Consulted
239 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Index
263
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
July 18, 2003
eBook ISBN:
9780822384533
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
288
Other:
4 illus., 1 map
