"We celebrate innovation and experimentation, but Old Style reminds us that nineteenth-century American writers instead valued familiarity and traditionalism, which provided reliable markers of literary quality. Old Style examines the varied uses and expressions of unoriginality, which helped credential marginalized writers but which would eventually become associated with elitist conservatism"--
"We celebrate innovation and experimentation, but Old Style reminds us that nineteenth-century American writers instead valued familiarity and traditionalism, which provided reliable markers of literary quality. Old Style examines the varied uses and expressions of unoriginality, which helped credential marginalized writers but which would eventually become associated with elitist conservatism"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Claudia Stokes is Professor of English at Trinity University. She is the author of Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875-1910 and The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion, the latter also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Unoriginality on the Margins Chapter 1. The Poetics of Unoriginality: The Case of Lucretia Davidson Chapter 2. Novel Commonplaces: Quotation, Epigraphs, and Literary Authority Chapter 3. A Few Good Books: Rereading and the Virtues of Familiarity Part II. Elitist Conservatism and the Defense of Tradition Chapter 4. Old Friends in New Dress: James Fenimore Cooper and the Politics of the Sequel Chapter 5. Longfellow's Antiquarianism Chapter 6. Thomas Bailey Aldrich and the End of Tradition Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Unoriginality on the Margins Chapter 1. The Poetics of Unoriginality: The Case of Lucretia Davidson Chapter 2. Novel Commonplaces: Quotation, Epigraphs, and Literary Authority Chapter 3. A Few Good Books: Rereading and the Virtues of Familiarity Part II. Elitist Conservatism and the Defense of Tradition Chapter 4. Old Friends in New Dress: James Fenimore Cooper and the Politics of the Sequel Chapter 5. Longfellow's Antiquarianism Chapter 6. Thomas Bailey Aldrich and the End of Tradition Notes Bibliography Index
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