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American Fragments - The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic (Hardcover)
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In the years between the independence of the colonies from Britain
and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an
enormous number of literary texts called "fragments." American
Fragments recovers this archive of the romantic period to raise a
set of pressing questions about the relationship between aesthetic
and national realities: What kind of artistic creation was a
fragment?, And how and why did deliberately unfinished writing
emerge alongside a country that was itself still unfinished?
Through discussions of eighteenth-century transatlantic aesthetics,
the Revolutionary War, seduction novels, religious culture, and the
construction of authorship, Daniel Diez Couch argues that the
literary fragment was used as a means of representing individuals
who did not fit neatly into the social fabric of the nation:
beggars, prostitutes, veterans, and other ostracized figures. These
individuals did not have a secure place in designs for the
country's future, yet writers wielded the artistic form of the
fragment as an apparatus for surveying their disputed
positionality. Time and again, fragments asked what kind of
identity marginalized individuals had, and how fictionalized
versions of their life stories influenced the sociopolitical
circumstances of the emergent nation. In their most progressive
moments, the writers of fragments depicted their subjects as being
"in process," opting for a fluid version of the self instead of the
bounded and coherent one typically hailed as the liberal
individual. Traversing aesthetics, political philosophy, material
culture, and history, American Fragments gives new life to a
literary form that at once played a significant role in the print
ecology of the early republic, and that endures in the works of
modernist and postmodernist writers and artists.
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