Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation

Jay Grossman

Published by Duke University Press 2003

Reconstituting the American Renaissance

Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation

Jay Grossman
Edited by: Donald E. Pease

In the series New Americanists

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384533

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About this book

Offers a revised view of the American Renaissance that shows (a) how the debates about political representatives as they developed around the framing and ratifications of the U.S. Constitution have structured the rhetoric of subsequent generations of writ

Author / Editor information

Jay Grossman is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University.

Reviews

“Jay Grossman powerfully demonstrates how the linguistic cohabits with the political in two of the nineteenth century’s most provocative writers. Reconstituting the American Renaissance thoroughly restructures our understanding of the Emerson/Whitman relationship. Some key, long-held assumptions about these two writers will now have to be completely reconsidered in light of Grossman’s original and compelling critiques of all the familiar encounters between these literary giants.”—Ed Folsom, editor, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review

"Reconstituting the American Renaissance will dramatically change the way scholars view the relationship of Whitman to Emerson and the character of their literary enterprises."—Jay Fliegelman, author of Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language and the Culture of Performance

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction. Representative Strategies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One. The Rise of the Representational Arts in the United States Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
Chapter Two. Rereading Emerson/Whitman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Chapter Three. Class Actions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
Chapter Four. Representing Men Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Works Consulted Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 288
Illustrations
- Other: 4 illus., 1 map

eBook

Published: July 18, 2003
ISBN: 9780822384533