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  1. Up from the Depths
    Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
    Author: Sachs, Aaron
    Published: [2022]; ©2022
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important... more

     

    A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history—the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819–1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895–1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the writers, Aaron Sachs reveals the surprising resonances between their lives, work, and troubled times—and their uncanny relevance in our own age of crisis.The author of Moby-Dick was largely forgotten for several decades after his death, but Mumford helped spearhead Melville’s revival in the aftermath of World War I and the 1918–1919 flu pandemic, when American culture needed a forebear with a suitably dark vision. As Mumford’s career took off and he wrote books responding to the machine age, urban decay, world war, and environmental degradation, it was looking back to Melville’s confrontation with crises such as industrialization, slavery, and the Civil War that helped Mumford to see his own era clearly. Mumford remained obsessed with Melville, ultimately helping to canonize him as America’s greatest tragedian. But largely forgotten today is one of Mumford’s key insights—that Melville’s darkness was balanced by an inspiring determination to endure.Amid today’s foreboding over global warming, racism, technology, pandemics, and other crises, Melville and Mumford remind us that we’ve been in this struggle for a long time. To rediscover these writers today is to rediscover how history can offer hope in dark times

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780691236940
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    Subjects: HISTORY / United States / General
    Other subjects: A. Mitchell Palmer; Abolitionism; Adam Hochschild; Ahab; Ambiguity; Americans; At the Core; Awareness; Barbarian; Billy Budd; Biography; Captain Ahab; Career; City Of; Clarel; Commodity; Consciousness; Continuance; Countermovement; Cultural evolution; Deep history; Determination; Disenchantment; Dynasty; E. M. Forster; Emblem; Environmentalism; Escapism; Essay; Ethos; Exploration; Frigate; George Perkins Marsh; Gilded Age; Grief; Henry David Thoreau; Herman Melville; His Family; Human Desire; Imperialism; Impressment; In This World; In the Life; John Claggart; Joseph Conrad; Kitimat; Langston Hughes; Lewis Mumford; Lifeway; Malcolm Cowley; Manifest destiny; Mechanization; Memoir; Michael Shelden; Moby-Dick; Modernity; Monomania; Mr; Narrative; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Near East; Oahu; Omoo; Optimism; Organism; Poetry; Prometheus; Puritans; Queequeg; Redburn; Reign; Remarkable; Requirement; Role; Romanticism; Scientism; Scurvy; Slang; Slavery; Suffering; Technology; The Conduct of Life; The Encantadas; The Golden Day; The Other Hand; The Philosopher; The Rest of the Story; The Spirit of the Age; Tropic of Capricorn; Typee; Uncertainty; Utopia; V; W. Somerset Maugham; Warfare; White-Jacket; William Roscoe; Woolf; Works and Days; Writing
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (472 Seiten), 18 b/w illus
  2. Making the Modern Reader
    Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies
    Published: [2018]; ©1996
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9780691193977
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    Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5235
    Subjects: Books and reading; Books and reading; Canon (Literature); Editing; Editing; English literature; English literature; Literature and anthropology; Literature publishing; Literature publishing; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
    Other subjects: Adage; Adagia; Allusion; Annotation; Anthology; Aphra Behn; Austen; Author; Biblical paraphrase; Book design; Book; Bookplate; British literature; Calligraphy; Charles Gildon; Charlotte Lennox; Classicism; Commonplace book; Conceit; Conduct book; Contemporary literature; Contemporary society; Courtesy book; Credential; Critical reading; Cultural literacy; Didacticism; Edition (book); Editorial; Edmund Curll; Elizabeth Eisenstein; Eloisa to Abelard; English novel; English poetry; Epigram; Epigraph (literature); Essay; Etymology; Genre fiction; Genre; Gift book; Handbook; Harcourt (publisher); Illustration; Invention; Jacob Tonson; John Newbery; Jonathan Swift; Joseph Addison; Joseph Andrews; Joseph Warton; Juvenal; Laurence Sterne; Literacy; Literary editor; Literary theory; Literature; Miscellany; Modern Philology; Mr; Mrs; Narrative; New Criticism; Novel; Novelist; Parable; Parody; Persius; Poetry; Preface; Print culture; Printing; Proofreading; Prose; Publication; Publishing; Pun; Punctuation; Puritans; Rabelais and His World; Reader-response criticism; Reading revolution; Reprint; Restoration literature; Rhyme; Round hand; Scholasticism; Self-fashioning; Simile; The Dunciad; The Philosopher; The Uses of Literacy; Thomas Parnell; To This Day; Travels (book); Typography; Vertumnus; Writer; Writing and Difference; Writing
    Scope: 1 online resource (264 p.), 10 halftones