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Reading Reality - Nineteenth-Century American Experiments in the Real (Hardcover)
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Reading Reality - Nineteenth-Century American Experiments in the Real (Hardcover)
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In the early 1800s, American critics warned about the danger of
literature as a distraction from reality. Later critical accounts
held that American literature during the antebellum period was
idealistic and that literature grew more realistic after the
horrors of the Civil War. By focusing on three leading American
authors Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson
Reading Reality challenges that analysis. Thomas Finan reveals how
antebellum authors used words such as ""real"" and ""reality"" as
key terms for literary discourse and claimed that the ""real"" was,
in fact, central to their literary enterprise. He argues that for
many Americans in the early nineteenth century, the ""real"" was
often not synonymous with the physical world. It could refer to the
spiritual, the sincere, or the individual's experience. He further
explains how this awareness revises our understanding of the
literary and conceptual strategies of American writers. By
unpacking antebellum senses of the ""real,"" Finan casts new light
on the formal traits of the period's literature, the pressures of
the literary marketplace in nineteenth-century America, and the
surprising possibilities of literary reading.
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