American Impersonal brings together some of the most influential
scholars now working in American literature to explore the impact
of one of America's leading literary critics: Sharon Cameron. It
engages directly with certain arguments that Cameron has
articulated throughout her career, most notably her late work on
the question of impersonality. In doing so, it provides responses
to questions fundamental to literary criticism, such as: the nature
of personhood; the logic of subjectivity in depersonalized
communities; the question of the human within the problematic of
the impersonal; how impersonality relates to the "posthuman."
Additionally, some essays respond to the current "aesthetic turn"
in literary scholarship and engage with the lyric, currently much
debated, as well as the larger questions of poetics and the logic
of genre. These crucial issues are addressed from the perspective
of an American literary and philosophical tradition, and progress
chronologically, starting from Melville and Emerson and moving via
Dickinson, Thoreau and Hawthorne to Henry James and Wallace
Stevens. This historical perspective adds the appeal of revisiting
the American nineteenth-century literary and philosophical
tradition, and even rewriting it.
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