LEADER 03819nam 22006375 450 001 9910590075003321 005 20230810175505.0 010 $a9783031078453$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031078446 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-07845-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7077631 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7077631 035 $a(CKB)24739660500041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-07845-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924739660500041 100 $a20220824d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aExceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American Literature /$fby Joseph Fichtelberg 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (266 pages) 225 1 $aAmerican Literature Readings in the 21st Century,$x2634-5803 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$aPrint version: Fichtelberg, Joseph Exceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American Literature Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031078446 327 $a1 Introduction -- 2 States of Exception -- 3 Empty Places -- 4 Poe's Chess Game -- 5 The Sublime Object of Freedom -- 6 Claiming Benito Cereno -- 7 Emily Dickinson's Picturesque War. 330 $aThis book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency. Arguing that the United States endured sustained conflicts over the nature and operation of sovereignty in the unsettled era from the Founding to the Civil War, the book presents two forms of governance: local and regional control, and national governance. The period?s states of exception arose from these clashing imperatives, creating contests over land, finance, and, above all, slavery, that drove national politics. Extensively employing the political and cultural insights of Walter Benjamin, this book surveys antebellum American writers to understand how they situated themselves and their work in relation to these episodes, specifically focusing on the experience of violence. Exploring the work of Edgar Allan Poe, ex-slave narrators like Moses Roper and Henry Bibb, Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson, the book applies some central aspects of Walter Benjamin?s literary and cultural criticism to the deep investment in pain in antebellum politics and culture. Joseph Fichtelberg is Professor of English at Hofstra University, USA. He is the author of three books: The Complex Image: Faith and Method in American Autobiography (1989), Critical Fictions: Sentiment and the American Market, 1780-1870 (2003), and Risk Culture: Performance and Danger in Early America (2010). . 410 0$aAmerican Literature Readings in the 21st Century,$x2634-5803 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x19th century 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aUnited States$xHistory 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature 606 $aPhilosophy of Literature 606 $aUS History 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x19th century. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aUnited States$xHistory. 615 14$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Literature. 615 24$aUS History. 676 $a809.933552 676 $a809.933552 700 $aFichtelberg$b Joseph$01168746 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910590075003321 996 $aExceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American Literature$92908289 997 $aUNINA