Michael J. Colacurcio

Doctrine and Difference (eBook, ePUB)

The Thematic Scale of Classic American Literature

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume aims to expand and deepen our knowledge into the inquiry of "contextual historicism," observing writers of the American nineteenth century, and their vastly differing approaches to perceptions such as race, gender, and national identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003808718
• Artikelnr.: 69569656

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Colacurcio received his AB (1958) in Philosophy and MA (1959) in English from Xavier University in Cincinnati; taking his Ph.D. (1963) at the University of Illinois, he began teaching American Literature at Cornell University, winning a distinguished teaching award in 1974. Following a series of essays on classic American authors, he published his study of Hawthorne's early tales, The Province of Piety (1984). Moving to UCLA in 1985, he brought out Doctrine and Difference: Studies in the Literature of New England in l997 with Routledge. He received a teaching award in 2001 and was promoted to Distinguished Professor in 2002; he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007. Godly Letters: Studies in the Literature of the American Puritans appeared in 2006. Religion and its Reformation in America, an anthology of religious texts from 1600 to 1730, appeared in 2020-as did a two-volume critical study called Emerson and Other Minds. Forthcoming is a volume of Colacurcio's collected essays on Hawthorne called Hawthorne's Histories, Hawthorne's World and, in the planning stage, a monograph entitled Puritanism and American Literature.

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