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Love and Depth in the American Novel - From Stowe to James (Paperback)
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Love and Depth in the American Novel - From Stowe to James (Paperback)
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Love and Depth in the American Novel seeks to change how we think
about the American love story and how we imagine the love of
literature. By examining classics of nineteenth-century American
literature, Ashley Barnes offers a new approach to literary theory
that encompasses both New Historicism and the ethical turn in
literary studies. Couples like Huck and Jim and Ishmael and
Queequeg have grounded the classic account of the American novel as
exceptionally gothic and antisocial. Barnes argues instead for a
model of shared intimacy that connects the evangelical sentimental
best seller to the high art of psychological realism. In her
reading of works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Herman Melville, Elizabeth Stoddard, Henry James, and others in the
context of nineteenth-century Protestant-Catholic debates about how
to know and love God, what emerges is an alternate tradition of the
American love story that pictures intimacy as communion rather than
revelation. Barnes uses that unacknowledged love story to propose a
model of literary critical intimacy that depends on reading fiction
in its historical context.
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