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Exceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American Literature
Engelsk Hardback
Exceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American Literature
Engelsk Hardback

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This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency. Arguing that the United States endured sustained conflicts over the nature and operation of sovereignty in the unsettled era from the Founding to the Civil War, the book presents two forms of governance: local and regional control, and national governance. The period''s states of exception arose from these clashing imperatives, creating contests over land, finance, and, above all, slavery, that drove national politics. Extensively employing the political and cultural insights of Walter Benjamin, this book surveys antebellum American writers to understand how they situated themselves and their work in relation to these episodes, specifically focusing on the experience of violence. Exploring the work of Edgar Allan Poe, ex-slave narrators like Moses Roper and Henry Bibb, Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson, the book applies some central aspects of Walter Benjamin''s literary and cultural criticism to the deep investment in pain in antebellum politics and culture.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
261
ISBN-13:
9783031078446
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
3031078446
Udg. Dato:
25 aug 2022
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
148mm
Højde:
210mm
Forlag:
Springer International Publishing AG
Oplagsdato:
25 aug 2022
Forfatter(e):
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