{"product_id":"the-reign-of-wonder-naivety-and-reality-in-american-literature-paperback-9780521291989","title":"The Reign of Wonder; Naivety and Reality in American Literature (Paperback) 9780521291989","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Reign of Wonder\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNaivety and Reality in American Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDr Tanner investigates American literature with regards to wonder and cultivated naivety.\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\"\u003e9780521291989, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 2 June 1977\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e400 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.51 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe adopted attitude towards reality and experience in American literature tends to be one of wonder and cultivated naivety rather than analysis and judgement. In this book, Dr Tanner offers some reasons for this and seeks to demonstrate the peculiar importance of wonder in American literature, by examining a number of key writers and showing how they confronted and assimilated reality at the same time he considers some of the difficulties incurred by this approach and studies its effects on American style.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: the sleep of reason\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Transcendentalists: 1. Saints behold: the transcendentalist point of view\u003cbr\u003e 2. Emerson: the unconquered eye and the enchanted circle\u003cbr\u003e 3. Thoreau and the sauntering eye\u003cbr\u003e 4. Walt Whitman's ecstatic first step\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Mark Twain: 6. The doctors of the wilderness\u003cbr\u003e 7. A system of reduction\u003cbr\u003e 8. The voice of the outlaw\u003cbr\u003e 9. The pond of youth\u003cbr\u003e 10. Huck Finn and the reflections of a saphead\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Twentieth Century: 11. Gertrude Stein and the complete actual present\u003cbr\u003e 12. Sherwood Anderson's Little Things\u003cbr\u003e 13. Ernest Hemingway's Unhurried Sensations\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Henry James: 14. The candid outsider\u003cbr\u003e 15. The range of wonderment\u003cbr\u003e 16. The subjective adventure\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: wonder and alienation - the mystic and the moviegoer\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\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":46003464765720,"sku":"9780521291989","price":41.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521291989i_4472b3a1-6a93-486c-a870-52733a170d0f.jpg?v=1691374675","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-reign-of-wonder-naivety-and-reality-in-american-literature-paperback-9780521291989","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}