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History, abolition, and the ever-present now in Antebellum American writing / Jeffrey Insko.
LIBRA PS217.H57 I67 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Insko, Jeffrey.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in American literary history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Authors, American--19th century.
- Authors, American.
- Politics and literature--United States.
- Politics and literature.
- History in literature.
- Slavery in literature.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 255 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in the writings of several familiar figures in antebellum US literary history.
- Contents:
- Cover; History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction: The living present; The Presentism Fallacy Fallacy; History With and Without Experience; All Advance is through Separation; PART I: Deformations of History; 1: Diedrich Knickerbocker, Regular Bred Historian; (Anti)Nationalist Historiography; "An Improvement in History"; Rip's Now; Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution; 2: Unhistorical Fictions: Sedgwick and Neal; Hope Leslie's Challenge to Historicism; News from the Present.
- John Neal's American RevolutionIncidents in Themselves; PART II: Reformations of the Present; 3: Emerson's Strong Present Tense; Rashly Do; Dying Lately; Knowing Not; Unsettling Things; 4: Frederick Douglass's Historical Turn; The Watchtower of Human Freedom; Marks, Traces, "Possibles," and Probabilities; What Is in the Distance, Rather Than What Is Near or Behind; Looking Out Upon the Boundless Sea of the Future; 5: Israel Potter; or, Hither and Thither History; Lightning-Rod Men; What Might Yet Be; A Character as Yet Unfathomed; Melville's Queer Future?; Coda: #staywoke; Endnotes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198825641
- 9780198825647
- OCLC:
- 1044552182
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