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Handbook of American Romanticism
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Edited by:
Philipp Löffler
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English
Published/Copyright:
2021
About this book
The Handbook of American Romanticism presents a comprehensive survey of the various schools, authors, and works that constituted antebellum literature in the United States. The volume is designed to feature a selection of representative case studies and to assess them within two complementary frameworks: the most relevant historical, political, and institutional contexts of the antebellum decades and the consequent (re-)appropriations of the Romantic period by academic literary criticism in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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Clemens Spahr, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; Philipp Löffler and Jan Stievermann, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
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Frontmatter
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The Editors’ Preface
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Contents
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0 Introduction
1 - Part I: Definitions, Backgrounds, Contexts
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1 Antebellum Period and Romanticism: Definitions and Demarcations
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2 Antebellum Literary Culture: The Institutions of Romanticism
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3 Transnational Dimensions of Romanticism
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4 American Romanticism and Religion
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5 Romanticism and European Philosophy, or “Idealism As It Appears in 1842”
119 - Part II: Intellectual, Spiritual, and Political Debates
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6 Romanticism and Democracy
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7 Romanticism and Social Reform
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8 American Romanticism and Esotericism
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9 America as Interior Space: Artificial Landscapes and the Modernization of Literature in Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Fiction
207 - Part III: Contestations of Authorship and Genre
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10 Authorship as Profession and the Uses of Genre in Antebellum America
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11 Poet-Prophets and Seers: American Romanticism, Authorship, and Literary Institutions
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12 Life Writing and Romantic Expressivism
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13 The Fireside and Sentimental Poets
293 - Part IV: Close Readings
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14 Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature (1836): American Romantic “Manifesto”
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15 Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845): Romanticism and (Proto)Feminism
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16 The Continuous Creation of Walden
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17 Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851)
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18 Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) and the Historical Imagination in American Romanticism
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19 Romanticism and History: Göttingen and George Bancroft’s History of the United States (1834)
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20 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) and the Politics of Sentimentalism
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21 Myth and Mythmaking in the Douglass Circle
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22 “The Soul Selects Her Own Society”: Emily Dickinson’s Poetry and the Creation of the Self
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23 The Great Psalm of the Republic: Walt Whitman’s Democratic Poetics
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24 Transcendentalist Legacies in American Philosophy
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25 Rethinking Gender in Antebellum American Literature
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26 “In the Woods We Return to Reason and Faith”: American Romanticism, Environmentalism, and Seeker Spirituality
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Index of Names
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Index of Subjects
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List of Contributors
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eBook published on:
July 5, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9783110592238
Hardcover published on:
July 5, 2021
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110590753
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Front matter:
9
Main content:
600
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2
Audience(s) for this book
Academics (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies), Students (BA, MA and PhD level), Libraries, Institutes
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