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050		4	_aPS208.R49 2011
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100	1		_aReynolds, David S.
245	1	0	_aBeneath the American Renaissance : _bThe Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, Incorporated, _c2011.
264		4	_c©2011.
300			_a1 online resource (656 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aCover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: THE OPEN TEXT: American Writers and Their Environment -- PART ONE: GOD'S BOW, MAN'S ARROWS: Religion, Reform, and American Literature -- 1. The New Religious Style -- 2. The Reform Impulse and the Paradox of Immoral Didacticism -- 3. The Transcendentalists, Whitman, and Popular Reform -- 4. Hawthorne and the Reform Impulse -- 5. Melville's Whited Sepulchres -- PART TWO: PUBLIC POISON: Sensationalism and Sexuality -- 6. The Sensational Press and the Rise of Subversive Literature -- 7. The Erotic Imagination -- 8. Poe and Popular Irrationalism -- 9. Hawthorne's Cultural Demons -- 10. Melville's Ruthless Democracy -- 11 . Whitman's Transfigured Sensationalism -- PART THREE: OTHER AMAZONS: Women's Rights, Women's Wrongs, and the Literary Imagination -- 12. Types of American Womanhood -- 13. Hawthorne's Heroines -- 14. The American Women's Renaissance and Emily Dickinson -- PART FOUR: THE GROTESQUE POSTURE: Popular Humor and the American Subversive Style -- 15. The Carnivalization of American Language -- 16. Transcendental Wild Oats -- 17. Whitman's Poetic Humor -- 18. Stylized Laughter in Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville -- Epilogue: RECONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM: Literary Theory and Literary History -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
520			_aSince its initial publication, David Reynolds's Beneath the American Renaissance has become a seminal resource for understanding American literature. It ranks alongside classics like F.O. Matthiessen's The American Renaissance, R.W.B. Lewis's The American Adam, and Eric Sundquist's To Wake the Nations as a book that defined how we apprehend our literary past. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which Reynolds is now known. Now back in print in an affordable paperback edition that includes a new foreword by Sean Wilentz that recollects the book's impact and influence, a lost gem returns. It is poised to find an appreciative new readership in anyone interested in the genesis of America's most significant literary epoch and the iconic figures-Hawthorne, Whitman, Dickinson, and Melville-who defined it.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aAmerican literature--19th century--History and criticism.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aReynolds, David S. _tBeneath the American Renaissance _dOxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2011 _z9780199782840
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4980843 _zClick to View
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