03773nam 2200601 a 450 991077893940332120200520144314.01-280-65115-697866136341461-61148-421-9(CKB)2550000000084391(EBL)860138(OCoLC)775873201(SSID)ssj0000612161(PQKBManifestationID)11368028(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000612161(PQKBWorkID)10671485(PQKB)10738605(MiAaPQ)EBC860138(Au-PeEL)EBL860138(CaPaEBR)ebr10532569(CaONFJC)MIL363414(EXLCZ)99255000000008439120111024d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJohn Neal and nineteenth-century American literature and culture[electronic resource] /edited by Edward Watts and David J. CarlsonLewisburg [Pa.] Bucknell University Press20121 online resource (355 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61148-420-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- John Neal : across the American renaissance / Edward Watts and -- David J. Carlson -- "I must resemble nobody": John Neal, genre, and the making of American literary nationalism / Matthew Pethers -- "The herbage of death": haunted environments in John Neal and James Fenimore Cooper / Matthew Wynn Sivils -- Eye-witness to history: the anti-narrative aesthetic of Neal's Seventy-Six / Jeffrey Insko -- Notes on poetic push-pin and the writing of life in John Neal's authorship / Jorg Thomas Richter -- Celebrated rubbish: John Neal and the commercialization of early American Romanticism / Maya Merlob -- John Neal, the rise of the critick, and the rise of American art / Francesca Orestano -- John Neal and John Dunn Hunter / Jonathan Elmer -- "Another declaration of independence": John Neal's Rachel Dyer and the assault on precedent / David J. Carlson -- Here, there, and everywhere: the elusive regionalism of John Neal / Kerin Holt -- "He could not believe that butchering Red men was serving our maker": 'David Whicher' and the Indian hater tradition / Edward Watts -- John Neal and the early discourse of women's rights / Karen Weyler -- "A right manly man" in 1843: John Neal on women's rights and the problem of male feminism / Fritz Fleischmann -- How John Neal wrote his autobiography / Kevin J. Hayes.John Neal and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture is a critical reassessment of American novelist, editor, critic, and activist John Neal, arguing for his importance to the ongoing reassessment of the American Renaissance and the broader cultural history of the Nineteenth Century. Contributors (including scholars from the United States, Germany, England, Italy, and Israel) present Neal as an innovative literary stylist, penetrating cultural critic, pioneering regionalist, and vital parLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryNational characteristics, American, in literatureCriticsUnited StatesLiterature and societyHistoryNational characteristics, American, in literature.Critics813/.2Watts Edward1964-1572466Carlson David J.1970-1574597MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778939403321John Neal and nineteenth-century American literature and culture3850958UNINA