The emergence of American literary narrative, 1820-1860
- Title
- The emergence of American literary narrative, 1820-1860 / Jonathan Arac.
- Published by
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- 267 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "In the mid-nineteenth century writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville produced works of fiction that even today, centuries later, help to define what American literature means. In this work of innovative literary history, Jonathan Arac explains what made this remarkable creativity possible and what it accomplished. His work also delves into a deep paradox that has haunted American literature: our nation's great works of literary narrative place themselves at a tense distance from our national life."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Contents
- Establishing National Narrative -- Local Narratives -- Personal Narratives -- Literary Narratives -- Crisis of Literary Narrative and Consolidation of National Narrative.
- Note
- "Originally published in The Cambridge history of American literature, volume 2, 1820-1865, edited by Sacvan Bercovitch"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-256) and index.