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Reconstituting the American Renaissance
Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation
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2003
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-3129-2 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
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Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, this title reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and the relationship of these two authors to each other.
Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and the relationship of these two authors to each other. Jay Grossman argues that issues of political representation—involving vexed questions of who shall speak and for whom—lie at the heart of American political and literary discourse from the revolutionary era through the Civil War. By taking the mid-nineteenth-century period, traditionally understood as marking the advent of literary writing in the United States, and restoring to it the ways in which Emerson and Whitman engaged with eighteenth-century controversies, rhetorics, and languages about political representation, Grossman departs significantly from arguments that have traditionally separated American writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Reconstituting the American Renaissance describes how Emerson and Whitman came into the period of their greatest productivity with different conceptions of the functions and political efficacy of the word in the world. It challenges Emerson’s position as Whitman’s necessary precursor and offers a cultural history that emphasizes the two writers’ differences in social class, cultural experience, and political perspective. In their writings between 1830 and 1855, the book finds contrasting conceptions of the relations between the “representative man” and the constituencies to whom, and for whom, he speaks. Reconstituting the American Renaissance opens up the canonical relationship between Emerson and Whitman and multiplies the historical and discursive contexts for understanding their published and unpublished works.
Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and the relationship of these two authors to each other. Jay Grossman argues that issues of political representation—involving vexed questions of who shall speak and for whom—lie at the heart of American political and literary discourse from the revolutionary era through the Civil War. By taking the mid-nineteenth-century period, traditionally understood as marking the advent of literary writing in the United States, and restoring to it the ways in which Emerson and Whitman engaged with eighteenth-century controversies, rhetorics, and languages about political representation, Grossman departs significantly from arguments that have traditionally separated American writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Reconstituting the American Renaissance describes how Emerson and Whitman came into the period of their greatest productivity with different conceptions of the functions and political efficacy of the word in the world. It challenges Emerson’s position as Whitman’s necessary precursor and offers a cultural history that emphasizes the two writers’ differences in social class, cultural experience, and political perspective. In their writings between 1830 and 1855, the book finds contrasting conceptions of the relations between the “representative man” and the constituencies to whom, and for whom, he speaks. Reconstituting the American Renaissance opens up the canonical relationship between Emerson and Whitman and multiplies the historical and discursive contexts for understanding their published and unpublished works.
Jay Grossman is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University.
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction: Representative Strategies 1
1. The Rise of the Representational Arts in the United States 28
2. Rereading Emerson/Whitman 75
3. Class Actions 116
4. Representing Men 161
Notes 207
Works Consulted 239
Index 263
Reihe/Serie | New Americanists |
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Zusatzinfo | 4 illus., 1 map |
Verlagsort | North Carolina |
Sprache | englisch |
Gewicht | 726 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie |
ISBN-10 | 0-8223-3129-2 / 0822331292 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-3129-2 / 9780822331292 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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