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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460186803321

Autore

Jarenski Shelly

Titolo

Immersive words : mass media, visuality, and American literature, 1839-1893 / / Shelly Jarenski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8173-8816-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/357

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

National characteristics, American, in literature

Aesthetics in literature

Aesthetics, American

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Disruptive aesthetics: Melville's daguerrean experiments -- Panoramic aesthetics and African American challenges -- Imagined tourism: Hawthorne's virtual Rome -- Spectacular display: the politics of exhibition aesthetics -- Coda.

Sommario/riassunto

<div><b>Shelly Jarenski</b> is an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan in Dearborn. Her articles have appeared in <i>American Quarterly</i>, <i>MELUS</i>, and the <i>Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association</i>.<br></div>