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Doctrine and Difference - Readings in Classic American Literature (Hardcover)
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Doctrine and Difference - Readings in Classic American Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature
aims to expand and deepen the inquiry begun in the volume from
2007. Beginning with an essay on the avowedly Puritan poetry of
Anne Bradstreet and ending with two not-quite-secular novels from
late in the 19th century, this volume seeks to uncover the
religious and philosophical meanings deeply embedded in so much of
19th century American literature, and then, importantly, to
identify and analyze the techniques by which the "doctrines" are
differentiated into imaginative literature. Poe, Emerson, Thoreau,
Hawthorne, Melville-and yes, even Howells and James-are driven by
powerful thematic intentions. But they do not preach: they
dramatize. And, as they talk their way through their existential
issues, they often talk to one another: yes, no, maybe, ok but not
so fast. Stressing the idea of a shared, poet-Puritan inheritance,
the new Doctrine and Difference means to re-confirm the vitality of
literary history and, in particular, the importance of reading the
classic texts of American literature in context and in relation.
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