Michael J. Colacurcio

Doctrine and Difference (eBook, ePUB)

Readings in Classic American Literature

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature aims to study the authors of what was previously called "The American Renaissance", reading them together in the light of their shared inheritance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000393507
• Artikelnr.: 62198500

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Colacurcio was born in Cincinnati and educated there by Jesuits. He took his Ph.D. at Illinois in 1963 and went to work at Cornell, moving to UCLA in 1985, where he is now a Distinguished Professor. Winner of teaching awards at both universities and, since 2007, a member of the American Society of Arts and Sciences, his works include The Province of Piety (1985), Doctrine and Difference (1997), Godly Letters (2006), and Emerson and Other Minds (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Literature, History, Politics, Philosophy

1. "A Strange Poise of the Spirit": The Life and Deaths of Thomas Shepard

2. Maypole and Surplice: Hawthorne and the (Re-)Writing of History

3. Idealism as it Appears: Refractions of Emerson in Hawthorne's Mosses

4. "All but Madness": Blasphemy and Skepticism in Moby-Dick

5. Taps of Drums and Pieces of Battles: Whitman and Melville on the Unwritten War

6. Sage of Amherst: Dickinson as Part-time Transcendentalist

7. Regional Men (Not So Much from Mars)

8. Modern Instances: Love and Marriage after Hawthorne

9. Democracy and Esther: Henry Adams' Flirtation with Pragmatism

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Preface
01. MAKING CONSCIENCE, TRUSTING GOD: The (Almost) Weaned Affections of Anne
Bradstreet
02. COSMOPOLITAN AND PROVINCIAL: Hawthorne and the Reference of American
Studies
03. "SUPERNAL LOVELINESS" AND "FANTASTIC FOOLERY": The Aesthetic in Poe and
Hawthorne
04. CONSCIOUSNESS AND ASCRIPTION: Emerson and the Scandal of the Subject
05. "LIFE WITHIN THE LIFE": Sin and Self in Hawthorne's New England
06. THE SOUTH SEAS IN MELVILLE: Genre, Myth (and Sex) in Typee, Omoo, Mardi
07. "ARTIFICIAL FIRE": Melville and the Mythology of "Ethan Brand"
08. INHERITANCE, REPETITION, COMPLICITY, REDEMPTION: Sin and Salvation in
The House of the Seven Gables
09. CHARITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS: Pity and Politics in Melville's Short
Fiction
10. "THE FRIENDSHIP OF THE SEASONS": Climax and Confirmation in the Plot of
Walden
11. "OUR CONVERSATION WITH NATURE": Emerson's Cave and Plato's "Allegory"
12. "MEAN OR UNAMIABLE PEOPLE": Manners, Morals (and Grace?) in The Rise of
Silas Lapham and The American