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Exceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American Literature (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Exceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American Literature (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American
literature and the problem of political emergency. Arguing that the
United States endured sustained conflicts over the nature and
operation of sovereignty in the unsettled era from the Founding to
the Civil War, the book presents two forms of governance: local and
regional control, and national governance. The period's states of
exception arose from these clashing imperatives, creating contests
over land, finance, and, above all, slavery, that drove national
politics. Extensively employing the political and cultural insights
of Walter Benjamin, this book surveys antebellum American writers
to understand how they situated themselves and their work in
relation to these episodes, specifically focusing on the experience
of violence. Exploring the work of Edgar Allan Poe, ex-slave
narrators like Moses Roper and Henry Bibb, Herman Melville and
Emily Dickinson, the book applies some central aspects of Walter
Benjamin's literary and cultural criticism to the deep investment
in pain in antebellum politics and culture.
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