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Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature: Topographies of Skepticism

Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature: Topographies of Skepticism

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Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 140

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 052111988X
ISBN13: 9780521119887
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 17 2009
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Robert Abrams argues that new concepts of space and landscape emerged in mid-nineteenth-century American writing, marking a linguistic and interpretative limit to American expansion. Abrams supports the radical elements of antebellum writing, where writers from Hawthorne to Rebecca Harding Davis disputed the naturalizing discourses of mid-nineteenth century society. Whereas previous critics find in antebellum writing a desire to convert chaos into an affirmative, liberal agenda, Abrams contends that authors of the 1840s and 50s deconstructed more than they constructed.

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