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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance (Paperback)
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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
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The American Renaissance has been a foundational concept in
American literary history for nearly a century. The phrase connotes
a period, as well as an event, an iconic turning point in the
growth of a national literature and a canon of texts that would
shape American fiction, poetry, and oratory for generations. F. O.
Matthiessen coined the term in 1941 to describe the years
1850-1855, which saw the publications of major writings by
Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. This Companion
takes up the concept of the American Renaissance and explores its
origins, meaning, and longevity. Essays by distinguished scholars
move chronologically from the formative reading of American
Renaissance authors to the careers of major figures ignored by
Matthiessen, including Stowe, Douglass, Harper, and Longfellow. The
volume uses the best of current literary studies, from digital
humanities to psychoanalytic theory, to illuminate an era that
reaches far beyond the Civil War and continues to shape our
understanding of American literature.
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