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Attachment, Place, and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century American Literature - New Materialist Representations (Paperback)
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Attachment, Place, and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century American Literature - New Materialist Representations (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
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This interdisciplinary study examines the role interpersonal and
place attachment bonds play in crafting a national identity in
American literature. Although there have been numerous ecocritical
studies of and psychoanalytic approaches to American literature,
this study seeks to integrate the language of empirical science and
the physical realities of place, while also investigating non-human
agency and that which exists beyond the material realm. Murphy
considers how writers in the early American Republic constructed
modernity by restructuring representations of interpersonal and
place attachments, which are subsequently reimagined, reconfigured,
and sometimes even rejected by writers in the long nineteenth
century. Within each narrative American perceptions of otherness
are pathologized as a result of insecure human-to-human and
human-to-place attachments, resulting in a restructuring of
antiquated notions of difference. Throughout, Murphy argues that in
order to understand fully the contextually varied framework of
human bonding, it is important to emphasize America’s
"attachment" to various constructions of otherness. Historically,
people of color, women, ethnic groups, and lower class citizens
have been relegated—socially, politically, and culturally—to a
place of subordination. Refugees escaping the French and Haitian
Revolutions to American cities encouraged writers to transform
social, cultural, and political attachments in ways that the
American Revolution did not. The United States has always been part
of an extended global network that provides fertile ground from
which to imagine a future American identity; this book thus
gestures toward future readers, educators, and scholars who seek to
explore new fields and new approaches to understand the underlying
human motivations that continually inspire the American
imagination.
General
Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature |
Release date: |
September 2020 |
Authors: |
Jillmarie Murphy
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
158 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-367-66718-4 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-367-66718-5 |
Barcode: |
9780367667184 |
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