American Fragments : : The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic / / Daniel Diez Couch.

In the years between the independence of the colonies from Britain and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous number of literary texts called "fragments." American Fragments recovers this archive of the romantic period to raise a set of pressing questions ab...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction. Thinking in Parts in American Literature
  • Chapter 1. Eighteenth-Century Philosophies of the Fragment
  • Chapter 2. Wounded Bodies and the Typographies of War
  • Chapter 3. Ruinous Designs and the Novel of Seduction
  • Chapter 4. Biblical Economy and the Miracle of the Loaves and Fish
  • Chapter 5. Authentic Authorship and the Composition of Sick Fragments
  • Epilogue. Fragments in the Nineteenth Century
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments