Name: Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century Hardback (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
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Author: Theo Davis
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Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century Hardback (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)

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Physical Book

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

Theo Davis

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

210

Format

Hardcover

Weight

ISBN

0521872960

ISBN13

9780521872966

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Synopsis "Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century Hardback (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) "

Theo Davis offers a fresh account of the emergence of a national literature in the United States. Taking American literature's universalism as an organising force that must be explained rather than simply exposed, she contends that Emerson, Hawthorne, and Stowe's often noted investigations of experience are actually based in a belief that experience is an abstract category governed by typicality, not the property of the individual subject. Additionally, these authors locate the form of the literary work in the domain of abstract experience, projected out of - not embodied in - the text. After tracing the emergence of these beliefs out of Scottish common sense philosophy and through early American literary criticism, Davis analyses how American authors' prose seeks to work an art of abstract experience. In so doing, she reconsiders the place of form in modern literary studies.

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