{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-the-literature-of-the-american-renaissance-paperback-9781108431088","title":"The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108431088","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis volume offers a new introduction to the American Renaissance, exploring many of the key themes, genres, and social and cultural contexts that inform the best new scholarship in the field.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristopher N. Phillips (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108431088, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 March 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e278 pages, 7 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.3 x 1.4 cm, 0.41 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'… excellent … The contributors are expert authorities on their subjects, and their footnotes indicate a robust engagement with both classic and recent works of American literary scholarship.' John Hay, The New England Quarterly\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe American Renaissance has been a foundational concept in American literary history for nearly a century. The phrase connotes a period, as well as an event, an iconic turning point in the growth of a national literature and a canon of texts that would shape American fiction, poetry, and oratory for generations. F. O. Matthiessen coined the term in 1941 to describe the years 1850–1855, which saw the publications of major writings by Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. This Companion takes up the concept of the American Renaissance and explores its origins, meaning, and longevity. Essays by distinguished scholars move chronologically from the formative reading of American Renaissance authors to the careers of major figures ignored by Matthiessen, including Stowe, Douglass, Harper, and Longfellow. The volume uses the best of current literary studies, from digital humanities to psychoanalytic theory, to illuminate an era that reaches far beyond the Civil War and continues to shape our understanding of American literature.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Christopher N. Phillips\u003cbr\u003e Into the Renaissance: 1. Reading the American Renaissance in a Pennsylvania library Christopher N. Phillips\u003cbr\u003e 2. Cooper, Simms, and the boys of summer Jeffrey Walker\u003cbr\u003e 3. The trouble with the Gothic: Poe, Lippard, and the poetics of critique Russell Sbriglia\u003cbr\u003e 4. Emerson and Hawthorne\u003cbr\u003e or, locating the American Renaissance Gavin Jones and Judith Richardson\u003cbr\u003e 5. Cosmopolite at home: global Longfellow Christoph Irmscher\u003cbr\u003e Rethinking the Renaissance: 6. Sins of the rising generation: religion and the American Renaissance Zachary McLeod Hutchins\u003cbr\u003e 7. Uncle Tom's Cabin and the struggle over meaning: from slavery to race Barbara Hochman\u003cbr\u003e 8. The (im)possibilities of Indianness: George Copway and the problem of representativity Mark Rifkin\u003cbr\u003e 9. The poetess at work Alexandra Socarides\u003cbr\u003e 10. Fern, Warner, and the work of sentimentality Jennifer Brady\u003cbr\u003e 11. Melville: the ocean and the city Wyn Kelley\u003cbr\u003e Beyond the Renaissance: 12. Whitman, in and out of the Renaissance David Haven Blake\u003cbr\u003e 13. A Renaissance-self: Frederick Douglass and the art of remaking Zoe Trodd\u003cbr\u003e 14. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 'in the situation of Ishmael' Melba J. Boyd\u003cbr\u003e 15. The corner-stones of Heaven: science comes to concord Laura Dassow Walls\u003cbr\u003e Coda: War and the Renaissance Christopher N. 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