{"product_id":"scenes-of-nature-signs-of-men-essays-on-19th-and-20th-century-american-literature-paperback-9780521311557","title":"Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men; Essays on 19th and 20th Century American Literature (Paperback) 9780521311557","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eScenes of Nature, Signs of Men\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on 19th and 20th Century American Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is about the relationship of the American writer to his land and language.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTony Tanner (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521311557, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 25 August 1989\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15 x 2.1 cm, 0.47 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'Always, Mr Tanner is sensitive, subtle, surprising … From Walt Whitman to William Gass, Mr Tanner beautifully illuminates, in Emily Dickinson's words, all these Continents of Light.' The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book is about the relationship of the American writer to his land and language - to the 'scene' and the 'sign', to the natural landscape and the inscriptions imposed upon it by men. Among the questions considered in the first section of the book are how does American Romantic writing differ from European; what are the peculiar problems faced by the American artist, and what roles does he adopt to tackle them; what kind of writing results when authors as different as Henry Adams and Mark Twain lament the vanishing of an earlier America, or when Adams and Henry James review their complex relationship to their homeland, or when W. D. Howells and Stephen Crane seek to define their themes in a specifically American setting. The second section of the book examines similar concerns in a number of contemporary writers, notably Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, John DeLillo, and William Gass.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Scenes of nature, signs of men\u003cbr\u003e 2. Notes for a comparison between American and European Romanticism\u003cbr\u003e 3. Problems and roles of the American artist as portrayed by the American novelist\u003cbr\u003e 4. James on Hawthorne\u003cbr\u003e 5. The lost America - the despair of Henry Adams and Mark Twain\u003cbr\u003e 6. Henry James and Henry Adams\u003cbr\u003e 7. William Dean Howells and A Hazard of New Fortunes\u003cbr\u003e 8. Stephen Crane\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Bostonians and the human voice\u003cbr\u003e 10. Games American writers play: ceremony, complicity, contestation, and carnival\u003cbr\u003e 11. Toward an ultimate topography: the work of Joseph McElroy\u003cbr\u003e 12. Frames and sentences\u003cbr\u003e 13. William Gass's barns and bees\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: from c 1900 - [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: from c 1900 -\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20from%20c%201900%20-%20%5BDSBH%5D%22\"\u003eDSBH\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004772798744,"sku":"9780521311557","price":43.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521311557_2b1d6f19-8f0a-430e-b83c-495264cc6f7a.gif?v=1691375027","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/scenes-of-nature-signs-of-men-essays-on-19th-and-20th-century-american-literature-paperback-9780521311557","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}