Claudia Stokes

Old Style

Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780812253535
• ISBN-10: 0812253531
• Artikelnr.: 61115958

Autorenporträt

Claudia Stokes

Inhaltsangabe

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