John Neal and nineteenth-century American literature and culture / edited by Edward Watts and David J. Carlson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watts, Edward, 1964-

Carlson, David J., 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Critics--United States.

Critics.

Neal, John, 1793-1876--Criticism and interpretation.

Neal, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture is a critical reassessment of American novelist, editor, critic, and activist John Neal, arguing for his importance to the ongoing reassessment of the American Renaissance and the broader cultural history of the Nineteenth Century. Contributors (including scholars from the United States, Germany, England, Italy, and Israel) present Neal as an innovative literary stylist, penetrating cultural critic, pioneering regionalist, and vital par

Contents:

Introduction

John Neal : across the American renaissance / Edward Watts and

David J. Carlson

"I must resemble nobody": John Neal, genre, and the making of American literary nationalism / Matthew Pethers

"The herbage of death": haunted environments in John Neal and James Fenimore Cooper / Matthew Wynn Sivils

Eye-witness to history: the anti-narrative aesthetic of Neal's Seventy-Six / Jeffrey Insko

Notes on poetic push-pin and the writing of life in John Neal's authorship / Jorg Thomas Richter

Celebrated rubbish: John Neal and the commercialization of early American Romanticism / Maya Merlob

John Neal, the rise of the critick, and the rise of American art / Francesca Orestano

John Neal and John Dunn Hunter / Jonathan Elmer

"Another declaration of independence": John Neal's Rachel Dyer and the assault on precedent / David J. Carlson

Here, there, and everywhere: the elusive regionalism of John Neal / Kerin Holt

"He could not believe that butchering Red men was serving our maker": 'David Whicher' and the Indian hater tradition / Edward Watts

John Neal and the early discourse of women's rights / Karen Weyler

"A right manly man" in 1843: John Neal on women's rights and the problem of male feminism / Fritz Fleischmann

How John Neal wrote his autobiography / Kevin J. Hayes.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-61148-995-4

1-280-65115-6

9786613634146

1-61148-421-9

OCLC:

775873201