At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature

ISBN-13: 9780231058957 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 320 str.

John Carlos Rowe

Opis

Representative works are interpreted in light of the two great political movements of the nineteenth century: the abolition of slavery and the women's rights movement. By reexamining Emerson, Poe, Melville, Douglass, Walt Whitman, Chopin, and Faulkner and others, Rowe assesses the degree to which major writers' attitudes toward race, class, and gender contribute to specific political reforms in nineteenth and twentieth-century American culture.