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The American Renaissance Reconsidered

The American Renaissance Reconsidered

Pease, Donald E.
Michaels, Walter Benn

Paperback

Series: Selected Papers from the English Institute, Book 9

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0801839378
ISBN13: 9780801839375
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Sep 1 1989
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.33 Depth: 7.97
Language: English

The term American Renaissance designates a period in our nation's history when the literary classics appeared--works original enough to mark a beginning for America's literary history. But the American Renaissance, Donald Pease argues in his introduction, does not belong to the nation's secular history so much as it denotes a rebirth from it: Independent of the time kept by secular history, the American Renaissance keeps what we could call global Renaissance time--the sacred time a nation claims to renew, when it claims its cultural place as a great nation existing within a world of great nations. Providing each nation with the terms for cultural greatness denied to secular history, the 'renaissance' is not an occasion occurring within any specific historical time or place so much as it is a moment of cultural achievement that repeatedly demands to be reborn.

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