First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the
peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation's
literature has developed. Covering the years from 1830 to 1865,
this second volume of American Literature in Context examines
twelve major American writers of the three decades before the Civil
War, including Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David
Thoreau, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. The book also analyses
the writing of two contemporary historians, an intellectual
Journalist and Abraham Lincoln. Among the major themes discussed
the religious heritage of New England Transcendentalism, sectional
rivalries, tensions between self-culture and social awareness, and
the widening gulf between the idea of national destiny and the fact
of growing disunity. In addition, the dominant literary forms of
the period - sermon, essay, travelogue - are related to the common
cultural assumptions of the age. This book will be of interest to
those studying American literature and American studies.
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