The dream of the great American novel / / Lawrence Buell |
Autore | Buell Lawrence |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (584 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.009 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism National characteristics, American, in literature Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-674-72632-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE THE UNKILLABLE DREAM -- 1. Birth, Heyday, and Seeming Decline -- 2. Reborn from the Critical Ashes -- PART TWO. SCRIPT ONE: MADE CLASSIC BY RETELLING -- 3. The Reluctant Master Text -- PART THREE. SCRIPT TWO: ASPIRATION IN AMERICA -- Introduction -- 4. "Success" Stories from Franklin to the Dawn of Modernism -- 5. Belated Ascendancy: Fitzgerald to Faulkner, Dreiser to Wright and Bellow -- 6. Up- From Narrative in Hyphenated America: Ellison, Roth, and Beyond -- PART FOUR. SCRIPT THREE: ROMANCING THE DIVIDES -- Introduction -- 7. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Its Aftermaths -- 8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Its Others -- 9. Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, and Literary Interracialism North and South -- 10. Morrison's Beloved as Culmination and Augury -- PART FIVE. SCRIPT FOUR: IMPROBABLE COMMUNITIES -- Introduction -- 11. Moby- Dick: From Oblivion to Great American Novel -- 12. The Great American Novel of Twentieth- Century Breakdown: Dos Passos's U.S.A.- or Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath? -- 13. Late Twentieth- Century Maximalism: Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow- and Its Rainbow -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464733003321 |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, , 2014 | ||
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The dream of the great American novel / / Lawrence Buell |
Autore | Buell Lawrence |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (584 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.009 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism National characteristics, American, in literature Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
0-674-72748-7
0-674-72632-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE THE UNKILLABLE DREAM -- 1. Birth, Heyday, and Seeming Decline -- 2. Reborn from the Critical Ashes -- PART TWO. SCRIPT ONE: MADE CLASSIC BY RETELLING -- 3. The Reluctant Master Text -- PART THREE. SCRIPT TWO: ASPIRATION IN AMERICA -- Introduction -- 4. "Success" Stories from Franklin to the Dawn of Modernism -- 5. Belated Ascendancy: Fitzgerald to Faulkner, Dreiser to Wright and Bellow -- 6. Up- From Narrative in Hyphenated America: Ellison, Roth, and Beyond -- PART FOUR. SCRIPT THREE: ROMANCING THE DIVIDES -- Introduction -- 7. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Its Aftermaths -- 8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Its Others -- 9. Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, and Literary Interracialism North and South -- 10. Morrison's Beloved as Culmination and Augury -- PART FIVE. SCRIPT FOUR: IMPROBABLE COMMUNITIES -- Introduction -- 11. Moby- Dick: From Oblivion to Great American Novel -- 12. The Great American Novel of Twentieth- Century Breakdown: Dos Passos's U.S.A.- or Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath? -- 13. Late Twentieth- Century Maximalism: Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow- and Its Rainbow -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789292603321 |
Buell Lawrence
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, , 2014 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The dream of the great American novel / / Lawrence Buell |
Autore | Buell Lawrence |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (584 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.009 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism National characteristics, American, in literature Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
0-674-72748-7
0-674-72632-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE THE UNKILLABLE DREAM -- 1. Birth, Heyday, and Seeming Decline -- 2. Reborn from the Critical Ashes -- PART TWO. SCRIPT ONE: MADE CLASSIC BY RETELLING -- 3. The Reluctant Master Text -- PART THREE. SCRIPT TWO: ASPIRATION IN AMERICA -- Introduction -- 4. "Success" Stories from Franklin to the Dawn of Modernism -- 5. Belated Ascendancy: Fitzgerald to Faulkner, Dreiser to Wright and Bellow -- 6. Up- From Narrative in Hyphenated America: Ellison, Roth, and Beyond -- PART FOUR. SCRIPT THREE: ROMANCING THE DIVIDES -- Introduction -- 7. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Its Aftermaths -- 8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Its Others -- 9. Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, and Literary Interracialism North and South -- 10. Morrison's Beloved as Culmination and Augury -- PART FIVE. SCRIPT FOUR: IMPROBABLE COMMUNITIES -- Introduction -- 11. Moby- Dick: From Oblivion to Great American Novel -- 12. The Great American Novel of Twentieth- Century Breakdown: Dos Passos's U.S.A.- or Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath? -- 13. Late Twentieth- Century Maximalism: Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow- and Its Rainbow -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815567703321 |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, , 2014 | ||
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Emerson [[electronic resource] /] / Lawrence Buell |
Autore | Buell Lawrence |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina | 814/.3 |
Soggetto topico | LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-674-02906-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | List of Illustrations Abbreviations Used in This Book Introduction 1. The Making of a Public Intellectual 2. Emersonian Self-Reliance in Theory and Practice 3. Emersonian Poetics 4. Religious Radicalisms 5. Emerson as a Philosopher? 6. Social Thought and Reform: Emerson and Abolition 7. Emerson as Anti-Mentor Notes Acknowledgments Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455133703321 |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003 | ||
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Emerson [[electronic resource] /] / Lawrence Buell |
Autore | Buell Lawrence |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina | 814/.3 |
Soggetto topico | LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General |
ISBN |
0-674-26241-7
0-674-02906-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | List of Illustrations Abbreviations Used in This Book Introduction 1. The Making of a Public Intellectual 2. Emersonian Self-Reliance in Theory and Practice 3. Emersonian Poetics 4. Religious Radicalisms 5. Emerson as a Philosopher? 6. Social Thought and Reform: Emerson and Abolition 7. Emerson as Anti-Mentor Notes Acknowledgments Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778454403321 |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Emerson [[electronic resource] /] / Lawrence Buell |
Autore | Buell Lawrence |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina | 814/.3 |
Soggetto topico | LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General |
ISBN |
0-674-26241-7
0-674-02906-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | List of Illustrations Abbreviations Used in This Book Introduction 1. The Making of a Public Intellectual 2. Emersonian Self-Reliance in Theory and Practice 3. Emersonian Poetics 4. Religious Radicalisms 5. Emerson as a Philosopher? 6. Social Thought and Reform: Emerson and Abolition 7. Emerson as Anti-Mentor Notes Acknowledgments Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807448103321 |
Buell Lawrence
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Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Literary Transcendentalism : Style and Vision in the American Renaissance |
Autore | Buell Lawrence |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cornell University Press, 1973 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (351 pages) |
Disciplina | 810/.9/38 |
Collana | Cornell Paperbacks |
Soggetto topico |
Transcendentalism (New England)
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
Unitarianism
American Renaissance Ellery Channing Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Jones Very literary nonfiction transcendentalism self-examination Walt Whitman |
ISBN |
1-5017-0765-5
1-5017-0766-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. Background and General Principles -- Part II. The Living Word -- Part III. Word and World: Nature as a Model for Literary Form -- Part IV. The First Person -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136644103321 |
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Cornell University Press, 1973 | ||
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Writing for an endangered world [[electronic resource] ] : literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond / / Lawrence Buell |
Autore | Buell Lawrence |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/355 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Environmental protection in literature English literature - History and criticism Environmental policy in literature Nature conservation in literature Landscapes in literature Ecology in literature Nature in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-674-02905-4 |
Classificazione | HR 1701 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Toxic Discourse -- 2. The Place of Place -- 3. Flâneur's Progress: Reinhabiting the City -- 4. Discourses of Determinism -- 5. Modernization and the Claims of the Natural World: Faulkner and Leopold -- 6. Global Commons as Resource and as Icon: Imagining Oceans and Whales -- 7. The Misery of Beasts and Humans: Nonanthropocentric Ethics versus Environmental Justice -- 8. Watershed Aesthetics -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454876403321 |
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Cambridge, MA, : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001 | ||
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Writing for an endangered world [[electronic resource] ] : literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond / / Lawrence Buell |
Autore | Buell Lawrence |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/355 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Environmental protection in literature English literature - History and criticism Environmental policy in literature Nature conservation in literature Landscapes in literature Ecology in literature Nature in literature |
ISBN | 0-674-02905-4 |
Classificazione | HR 1701 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Toxic Discourse -- 2. The Place of Place -- 3. Flâneur's Progress: Reinhabiting the City -- 4. Discourses of Determinism -- 5. Modernization and the Claims of the Natural World: Faulkner and Leopold -- 6. Global Commons as Resource and as Icon: Imagining Oceans and Whales -- 7. The Misery of Beasts and Humans: Nonanthropocentric Ethics versus Environmental Justice -- 8. Watershed Aesthetics -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778437503321 |
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Cambridge, MA, : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Writing for an endangered world [[electronic resource] ] : literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond / / Lawrence Buell |
Autore | Buell Lawrence |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/355 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Environmental protection in literature English literature - History and criticism Environmental policy in literature Nature conservation in literature Landscapes in literature Ecology in literature Nature in literature |
ISBN | 0-674-02905-4 |
Classificazione | HR 1701 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Toxic Discourse -- 2. The Place of Place -- 3. Flâneur's Progress: Reinhabiting the City -- 4. Discourses of Determinism -- 5. Modernization and the Claims of the Natural World: Faulkner and Leopold -- 6. Global Commons as Resource and as Icon: Imagining Oceans and Whales -- 7. The Misery of Beasts and Humans: Nonanthropocentric Ethics versus Environmental Justice -- 8. Watershed Aesthetics -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820898403321 |
Buell Lawrence
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Cambridge, MA, : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2001 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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