{"product_id":"all-the-devils-are-here-american-romanticism-and-literary-influence-hardback-9780813951010","title":"All the Devils Are Here; American Romanticism and Literary Influence (Hardback) 9780813951010","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAll the Devils Are Here\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAmerican Romanticism and Literary Influence\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Greven (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813951010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 April 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e324 pages, 6 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“With his open-hearted engagement with texts, Greven offers new styles of connection and navigates critical questions deftly and in ways that illuminate the work with tremendous lucidity and Élan. The writing is splendid.”—Wyn Kelley, MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, author of \u003ci\u003eMelville’s City: Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With \u003ci\u003eAll The Devils Are Here\u003c\/i\u003e, the literary scholar David Greven makes a signal contribution to the growing list of studies dedicated to tracing threads of literary influence. Herman Melville’s, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, and James Fenimore Cooper’s uses of Shakespeare and Milton, he finds, reflect not just an intertextual relationship between American Romanticism and the English tradition but also an ongoing engagement with gender and sexual politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Greven limns the effect of Shakespeare’s \u003ci\u003eMuch Ado about Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e on Hawthorne’s exploration of patriarchy, and he shows how misogyny in \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e informed Melville’s evocation of “the step-mother world” of orphaned men in \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e. Throughout, Greven focuses particularly on male authors’ treatment of femininity, arguing that the figure of woman functions for them as a multivalent signifier for artistic expression. Ultimately, Greven demonstrates the ambitions of these writers to comment on the history of the Western tradition and the future of art from their unique positions as Americans.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563739148568,"sku":"9780813951010","price":67.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/all-the-devils-are-here-american-romanticism-and-literary-influence-hardback-9780813951010","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}