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Division and imagined unity in the American renaissance : the seamless whole
- Title
- Division and imagined unity in the American renaissance : the seamless whole / Shawn Thomson.
- Author
- Thomson, Shawn
- Publication
- Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
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Details
- Description
- xxvi, 281 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Literature and society
- United States
- American literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Material culture in literature
- Intellectual life
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- United States > Intellectual life > 1783-1865
- 1783-1899
- Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century
- History
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Seams and seamlessness in antebellum America -- Christ's seamless robe and the material-spiritual duality in the American renaissance -- Seam by seam: Emily Dickinson's seamless theory of mind -- The seamless web of John S. Sauzade's The Spuytenduyvel Chronicle -- Three literary men: the intertwined lives of Herman Melville, George Washington Peck, and John S. Sauzade -- The seamless whole: national fictions in Herman Melville's Moby-dick (1851), Pierre (1852), and The confidence-man (1857) -- Melville's unraveling in the angelicalness of Pierre -- Epilogue: Loomings of futurity in the seams of Don DeLillo's White noise.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-1288
- ISBN
- 9781683931096
- 1683931092
- LCCN
- 2017038053
- OCLC
- 1002116015
- Author
- Thomson, Shawn, author.
- Title
- Division and imagined unity in the American renaissance : the seamless whole / Shawn Thomson.
- Publisher
- Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1783-1899
- Other Form:
- Online version: Thomson, Shawn, author. Division and imagined unity in the American renaissance Madison [NJ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017] 9781683931102 (DLC) 2017047462
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-1288