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At Emerson´s Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature
John Carlos Rowe
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Hardback. Challenges the conventional critical reading of the American poetic project as an engagement with or reaction against Emersonian thought. Rowe demonstrates how ideals of individualism, intellectualism, and otherworldiness inevitably undermine any political effectiveness that a writer may seek to achieve. Num Pages: 318 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 544.
Representative works are interpreted in light of the two great political movements of the nineteenth century: the abolition of slavery and the women's rights movement. By reexamining Emerson, Poe, Melville, Douglass, Walt Whitman, Chopin, and Faulkner and others, Rowe assesses the degree to which major writers' attitudes toward race, class, and gender contribute to specific political reforms in nineteenth and twentieth-century American culture.
Representative works are interpreted in light of the two great political movements of the nineteenth century: the abolition of slavery and the women's rights movement. By reexamining Emerson, Poe, Melville, Douglass, Walt Whitman, Chopin, and Faulkner and others, Rowe assesses the degree to which major writers' attitudes toward race, class, and gender contribute to specific political reforms in nineteenth and twentieth-century American culture.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231058940
SKU
V9780231058940
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About John Carlos Rowe
John Carlos Rowe is professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.
Reviews for At Emerson´s Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature
Rowe's is a... provocative... important contribution both to literary history's methodology and to understanding the individual writers and the works he examines and discusses in detail. Choice