The Complicity of Imagination

The American Renaissance, Contests of Authority, and Seventeenth-Century English Culture

AvRobin Grey,Albert Gelpi

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997

Del 106 i serien Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

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The Complicity of Imagination examines the rich and complex relationship between four nineteenth-century authors and the culture and politics of seventeenth-century England. Challenging the notion that antebellum Americans were burdened by a sense of cultural inferiority in both their thought and their writing, this 1997 study portrays an American Renaissance whose writers were deeply enough read in the literature and controversies of seventeenth-century England to appropriate its cultural artifacts for their own purposes. By exploring the broader cultural implications of intertextual relationships, this book demonstrates how literary texts participate in the artistic, political and theological tensions within American culture.

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Utgivningsdatum:1997-04-13
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:630 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Antal sidor:310
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521495387

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"The Complicity of Imagination provides some excellent insights into certain aspects of the American Renaissance's reception of seventeenth-century English Literature....it will prove worth the while of all those interested in the sources from which antebellum New England drew its inspiration." K.P. Van Anglen, The New England Quarterly

Innehållsförteckning

1. Cultural predicaments and authorial responses; 2. A Seraph's Eloquence: Emerson's inspired language and Milton's apocalyptic prose; 3. Margaret Fuller's The Two Herberts: Emerson and the disavowal of sequestered virtue; 4. As If a Green Bough were Laid Across the Page: Thoreau's seventeenth-century landscapes and extravagant personae; 5. Melville's Mardi and Moby-Dick: marvelous travel narratives, and seventeenth-century methods of inquiry; 6. Surmising the infidel: Melville reads Milton.