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Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville

by David S. Reynolds

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The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen''s American Renaissance. With its combi... Read more
The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen''s American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engagingobservation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David Reynolds is known.Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson receive striking, original readings set against the rich backdrop of contemporary popular writing. Now back in print, the volume includes a new foreword by historian Sean Wilentz that reveals the book''s impactand influence. A magisterial work of criticism and cultural history, Beneath the American Renaissance will fascinate anyone interested in the genesis of America''s most significant literary epoch and the iconic figures who defined it. Less

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File size6.1 X 9.09 X 1.61 in
Print pages656
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date July 15, 2011
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780199782840
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David S. Reynolds
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David S. Reynolds is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography, winner of the Bancroft Prize...

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