Literature, American Style : : The Originality of Imitation in the Early Republic / / Ezra Tawil.
Between 1780 and 1800, authors of imaginative literature in the new United States wanted to assert that their works, which bore obvious connections to anglophone literature on the far side of the Atlantic, nevertheless constituted a properly "American" tradition. No one had yet figured out...
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Tawil, Ezra, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Literature, American Style : The Originality of Imitation in the Early Republic / Ezra Tawil. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (272 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. Style and the Cisatlantic -- Chapter 1. To Form a More Perfect Language: Noah Webster’s American-Style English -- Chapter 2. Transatlantic Correspondences: Crèvecoeur and the Incorrect Style -- Chapter 3. “New Forms of Sublimity”: Charles Brockden Brown and the Irregular Style -- Chapter 4. “Homespun Habits”: Seduction, Sentiment, and the Artless Style -- Coda. Stock and Soil -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Between 1780 and 1800, authors of imaginative literature in the new United States wanted to assert that their works, which bore obvious connections to anglophone literature on the far side of the Atlantic, nevertheless constituted a properly "American" tradition. No one had yet figured out, however, what it would mean to write like an American, what literature with an American origin would look like, nor what literary characteristics the elusive quality of Americanness could generate. Literature, American Style returns to this historical moment—decades before the romantic nationalism of Cooper, the transcendentalism of Emerson and Thoreau, or the iconoclastic poetics of Whitman—when a fantasy about the unique characteristics of U.S. literature first took shape, and when that notion was linked to literary style.While late eighteenth-century U.S. literature advertised itself as the cultural manifestation of a radically innovative nation, Ezra Tawil argues, it was not primarily marked by invention or disruption. In fact, its authors self-consciously imitated European literary traditions while adapting them to a new cultural environment. These writers gravitated to the realm of style, then, because it provided a way of sidestepping the uncomfortable reality of cultural indebtedness; it was their use of style that provided a way of departing from European literary precedents. Tawil analyzes Noah Webster's plan to reform the American tongue; J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur's fashioning of an extravagantly naïve American style from well-worn topoi; Charles Brockden Brown's adaptations of the British gothic; and the marriage of seduction plots to American "plain style" in works such as Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple and Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette. Each of these works claims to embody something "American" in style yet, according to Tawil, remains legible only in the context of stylistic, generic, and conceptual forms that animated English cultural life through the century. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) American literature 1783-1850 History and criticism. English language United States Orthography and spelling History 18th century. English language United States Style. National characteristics, American, in literature. Nationalism and literature United States. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Cultural Studies. Literature. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Stud. 2018 English 9783110604184 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2018 9783110603187 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606638 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295290 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812295290 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812295290/original |
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Tawil, Ezra, Tawil, Ezra, Literature, American Style : The Originality of Imitation in the Early Republic / Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. Style and the Cisatlantic -- Chapter 1. To Form a More Perfect Language: Noah Webster’s American-Style English -- Chapter 2. Transatlantic Correspondences: Crèvecoeur and the Incorrect Style -- Chapter 3. “New Forms of Sublimity”: Charles Brockden Brown and the Irregular Style -- Chapter 4. “Homespun Habits”: Seduction, Sentiment, and the Artless Style -- Coda. Stock and Soil -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. Style and the Cisatlantic -- Chapter 1. To Form a More Perfect Language: Noah Webster’s American-Style English -- Chapter 2. Transatlantic Correspondences: Crèvecoeur and the Incorrect Style -- Chapter 3. “New Forms of Sublimity”: Charles Brockden Brown and the Irregular Style -- Chapter 4. “Homespun Habits”: Seduction, Sentiment, and the Artless Style -- Coda. Stock and Soil -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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