Albert J. von Frank
The Sacred Game
Provincialism and Frontier Consciousness in American Literature, 1630–1860
Paperback Engels 2008 9780521090001Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
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This book is a meditation on the theme of provincialism in American literature. With careful attention to the historical context, it identifies in the expressions of writers before the Civil War certain qualities of self-doubt and defensiveness, certain perceptions of displacement and decline, so profoundly characteristic as to amount to a defining trait of American literature. As a frontier nation, America lacked an organic culture of its own and embarked on the impossibly difficult task of creating a cultural life from imported forms and ideas. Albert von Frank shows the history of this effort to be one of a desperate conservatism struggling against the withering effects of time and distance on cherished standards of the past.
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ISBN13:9780521090001
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:200
Uitgever:Cambridge University Press
Serie:Cambridge Studies in
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Inhoudsopgave
Preface; Introduction: provincialism and the frontier; 1. 'But enmity this amity did break'; 2. 'A musy in the thicket'; 3. Geoffrey Crayon and the gigantic race; 4. Hawthorne's provincial imagination; 5. Working in Eden; 6. Life as art in Americ; 7. Reading God directly: the morbidity of culture; Postscript: tradition and circumstance; Notes; Index.
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