Scott M Reznick

Political Liberalism and the Rise of American Romanticism

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume traces how American literature evolved in response to widespread conflicts over the very nature of US democracy in the early republic and antebellum eras. It examines how American writers reacted to three moments of profound divisiveness in the 1790s, 1830s, and 1850s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780198891956
• ISBN-10: 0198891954
• Artikelnr.: 69918604

Autorenporträt

Scott M. Reznick is Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh where he specializes in nineteenth-century American literature. His scholarly work has appeared in Early American Literature, ESQ, American Political Thought, and Arizona Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Liberalism, Romanticism, and "The Vision of Principles"
* I. Origins: The 1790s
* 1: "Government and Manners": Cosmopolitanism, Imagination, and the
"Spirit" of Liberal Democracy in The Federalist and Charles Brockden
Brown's Ormond
* II. Emergence: The 1830s
* 2: "An Infinite Variety of Fragments": Embodiment, Identity, and
Moral Value in Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee
* 3: Toleration and the State of Nature: James Fenimore Cooper's
Romantic Vision
* III. Expansion: The 1850s
* 4: "The Sense of Liberty": Rethinking Liberalism and Sentimentality
in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Antislavery Fiction
* 5: Born Free and Everywhere in Chains: Moral Freedom and the Social
Contract in Frederick Douglass's Romantic Autobiographical Project
* 6: Politics, Friendship, and Fools: Liberalism and Romanticism in
The Blithedale Romance
* Coda: "Vital the Pending Questions": Periodization and the Turn to
Liberalism