Old Style : : Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature / / Claudia Stokes.
An aesthetic of unoriginality shaped literary style and reader taste for decades of the nineteenth century. While critics in the twentieth century and beyond have upheld originality and innovation as essential characteristics of literary achievement, they were not features particularly prized by ear...
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Stokes, Claudia, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Old Style : Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature / Claudia Stokes. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021] ©2022 1 online resource (288 p.) : 0 text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. UNORIGINALITY ON THE MARGINS -- Chapter 1. The Poetics of Unoriginality: The Case of Lucretia Davidson -- Chapter 2. Novel Commonplaces: Quotation, Epigraphs, and Literary Authority -- Chapter 3. A Few Good Books: Rereading and the Virtues of Familiarity -- PART II. ELITIST CONSERVATISM AND THE DEFENSE OF TRADITION -- Chapter 4. Old Friends in New Dress: James Fenimore Cooper and the Politics of the Sequel -- Chapter 5. Longfellow’s Antiquarianism -- Chapter 6. Thomas Bailey Aldrich and the End of Tradition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star An aesthetic of unoriginality shaped literary style and reader taste for decades of the nineteenth century. While critics in the twentieth century and beyond have upheld originality and innovation as essential characteristics of literary achievement, they were not features particularly prized by earlier American audiences, Claudia Stokes contends. On the contrary, readers were taught to value familiarity, traditionalism, and regularity. Literary originality was often seen as a mark of vulgar sensationalism and poor quality.In Old Style Stokes offers the first dedicated study of a forgotten nineteenth-century aesthetic, explicating the forms, practices, conventions, and uses of unoriginality. She focuses in particular on the second quarter of the century, when improvements in printing and distribution caused literary markets to become flooded with new material, and longstanding reading practices came under threat. As readers began to prefer novelty to traditional forms, advocates openly extolled unoriginality in an effort to preserve the old literary ways. Old Style examines this era of significant literary change, during which a once-dominant aesthetic started to give way to modern preferences.If writing in the old style came to be associated with elite conservatism—a linkage that contributed to its decline in the twentieth century—it also, paradoxically provided marginalized writers—people of color, white women, and members of the working class—the literary credentials they needed to enter print. Writing in the old style could affirm an aspiring author's training, command of convention, and respectability. In dismissing unoriginality as the literary purview of the untalented or unambitious, Stokes cautions, we risk overlooking something of vital importance to generations of American writers and readers. 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 01. Dez 2022) American literature 19th century History and criticism. Conservatism and literature United States History 19th century. Conservatism in literature. Imitation in literature. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). Originality in literature. (DE-588)4035964-5 (DE-627)106245015 (DE-576)209015608 Literatur gnd (DE-588)4170992-5 (DE-627)104269685 (DE-576)209934050 Nachahmung gnd (DE-588)4172836-1 (DE-627)104269669 (DE-576)209946059 Originalität gnd LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Cultural Studies. Literature. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 English 9783110754124 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 9783110753899 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110767674 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812298161 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812298161 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812298161/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. UNORIGINALITY ON THE MARGINS -- Chapter 1. The Poetics of Unoriginality: The Case of Lucretia Davidson -- Chapter 2. Novel Commonplaces: Quotation, Epigraphs, and Literary Authority -- Chapter 3. A Few Good Books: Rereading and the Virtues of Familiarity -- PART II. ELITIST CONSERVATISM AND THE DEFENSE OF TRADITION -- Chapter 4. Old Friends in New Dress: James Fenimore Cooper and the Politics of the Sequel -- Chapter 5. Longfellow’s Antiquarianism -- Chapter 6. Thomas Bailey Aldrich and the End of Tradition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. UNORIGINALITY ON THE MARGINS -- Chapter 1. The Poetics of Unoriginality: The Case of Lucretia Davidson -- Chapter 2. Novel Commonplaces: Quotation, Epigraphs, and Literary Authority -- Chapter 3. A Few Good Books: Rereading and the Virtues of Familiarity -- PART II. ELITIST CONSERVATISM AND THE DEFENSE OF TRADITION -- Chapter 4. Old Friends in New Dress: James Fenimore Cooper and the Politics of the Sequel -- Chapter 5. Longfellow’s Antiquarianism -- Chapter 6. Thomas Bailey Aldrich and the End of Tradition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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