- Description
- 1 online resource digital, PDF file(s).
- Summary
- In Time, Tense, and American Literature, Cindy Weinstein examines canonical American authors who employ a range of tenses to tell a story that has already taken place. This book argues that key texts in the archive of American literature are inconsistent in their retrospective status, ricocheting between past, present and future. Taking 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym' as her point of departure, Weinstein shows how Poe's way of representing time involves careening tenses, missing chronometers and inoperable watches, thus establishing a vocabulary of time that is at once anticipated in the fiction of Charles Brockden Brown and further articulated in works by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Theodore Dreiser and Edward P. Jones. Each chapter examines the often strange narrative fabric of these novels and presents an opportunity to understand how especially complicated historical moments, from the founding of the new nation to the psychic consequences of the Civil War, find contextual expression through a literary uncertainty about time.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture ; no. 175
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture ; no. 175.
- Alternative Title
- Time, Tense, & American Literature
- Subject
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Dec 2015).
- OCLC
- CR9781316163696
- Author
Weinstein, Cindy, author.
- Title
Time, Tense, and American Literature : When Is Now? / Cindy Weinstein.
- Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture ; no. 175
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture ; no. 175.
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Print version: 9781107099876