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Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature

Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature

Colacurcio, Michael J.

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0367708515
ISBN13: 9780367708511
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 9 2023
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Doctrine and Difference: Readings in Classic American Literature aims to expand and deepen the inquiry begun in the volume from 2007. Beginning with an essay on the avowedly Puritan poetry of Anne Bradstreet and ending with two not-quite-secular novels from late in the 19th century, this volume seeks to uncover the religious and philosophical meanings deeply embedded in so much of 19th century American literature, and then, importantly, to identify and analyze the techniques by which the doctrines are differentiated into imaginative literature. Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville--and yes, even Howells and James--are driven by powerful thematic intentions. But they do not preach: they dramatize. And, as they talk their way through their existential issues, they often talk to one another: yes, no, maybe, ok but not so fast. Stressing the idea of a shared, poet-Puritan inheritance, the new Doctrine and Difference means to re-confirm the vitality of literary history and, in particular, the importance of reading the classic texts of American literature in context and in relation.

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