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  1. Formalism, experience, and the making of American literature in the nineteenth century
    Author: Davis, Theo
    Published: c2007
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    A new account of the emergence of an American national literature which reconsiders the importance of form in literary studies more

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    A new account of the emergence of an American national literature which reconsiders the importance of form in literary studies

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0521872960; 9780521872966
    Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
    Subjects: Literary form; Experience in literature; Literature and society; American literature
    Other subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896); Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
    Scope: Online-Ressource (vi, 203 p), 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-193) and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: New Critical formalism and identity in Americanist criticism; Chapter 1 Types of interest: Scottish theory, literary nationalism, and John Neal; Chapter 2 Sensing Hawthorne: the figure of Hawthorne's affect; Chapter 3 "Life is an ecstasy": Ralph Waldo Emerson and A. Bronson Alcott; Chapter 4 Laws of experience: truth and feeling in Harriet Beecher Stowe; Notes; Bibliography; Index